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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...

Does size matter?

With small multilingual countries steaming ahead can the old superpowers keep up? The summer is upon us, and the...

A classicist’s take on the Trinity Cert

Language learner and teacher Zoë Parrish took a four-week online Trinity CertTESOL course with EBC. Here’s what it was like I may not be your...

Leaning into PISA’s language test

In 2025 the OECD is launching its Foreign Language Assessment (FLA) as part of its famous suite of PISA tests. Designed by Cambridge University...

Linguistics and grammar – time for a divorce?

Ninety years ago, a Danish academic wrote: “It is important to keep the two concepts time and tense strictly apart”. Unfortunately the writer was...

On-line invigilation can beat the bots

Not many people will have missed the recent hype regarding the impact of ChatGPT on the education sector since its launch in November. It...

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...
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