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April 2023

Two teachers’ nail-biting escapes from Sudan

Zoe Salim and Jennifer McLellan struggled to flee Sudan in the wake of sudden attacks by a paramilitary group in Khartoum. The UK called for British citizens to make...

Sudan update – 26th April

Shortly after the Gazette published the story about nine British Council staff trapped in the Council’s Khartoum headquarters...

International students in Scotland at higher risk of homelessness

1 in 5 international students likely to experience homelessness, according to a study published Monday by NUS Scotland.  In...

The British Council launch IELTS Ready: Premium

The British Council have recently announced the IELTS Ready: Premium, a new service providing personalised learning for IELTS...

The bilingual boy who showed us how language links to dyslexia

Alex has been interviewed by the BBC,” a friend e-mailed me, sending a link to an article. Which...

CULTIVATING TEACHER WELLBEING

Kate Brierton and Christina Gkonou Cambridge University Press and Assessment, 2022 ISBN: 978-1-108-93286 In his preface, Cambridge Educational Management series editor Andy Hockley correctly points...

Testing by numbers

The numbers from the assessment bodies, as exam boards are now usually known, shows the trendline going upwards, no matter which metric you use. When...

Why Perfectly Spoken is best in class

Perfectly Spoken is an award winning, fully customisable English language learning platform. Over five years have been invested in time and resources to create...

Forty-four years and counting

Henry Rodgers tells the full story of Italy’s foreign language lettori and their historic fight against discrimination On May 30 1989, a date that foreign...

What PRELIM 2023 Reveals

The third year of the British Council PRELIM project, which creates partnerships between English UK members and teacher’s associations in the global south, marks...

Suddenly it’s Summer

This year’s summer school special looks at what is changing in the vacation market and what is still the same IF you take a quick...
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