Monday, February 3, 2025

Features and Comment

Policy, policy, policy: a glance back at 2024

Though it seems to have come and gone so quickly, 2024 is beginning to wrap itself up in a, perhaps not-so-neat, little bow. The sector has experienced various highs and...

British Council’s shared services in India: smart cost-cutting or cultural misstep?

Educator and journalist William Grice shares his experience with teacher recruitment through the British Council. Last year, I was...

English on the airwaves

Learning English on the go? Fabio Cerpelloni chats with ELTon nominee, Luke Thompson all about his English-learning podcast. Q:...

Seeing the person in front of you

Fabio Cerpelloni speaks to Hadar Shemesh about the importance of teacher recruitment and retention for her school, Accent's...

The argument against exams

Are exams really a necessary evil? Fabio Cerpelloni speaks to teacher and YouTuber, Christian Saunders, to get his...

Time to go back to the school room

As adult language schools crash across the world, Ron Ragsdale and Melanie Butler argue that Covid-19 has served to speed up inevitable market changes Perhaps...

Hamish Chalmers: Trusting the evidence

Ron Ragsdale talks to Hamish Chalmers, language education researcher and former international school teacher, about the power of randomised trials An Oxford Professor once told...

A focus on monolingualism short-changes the needs of students

International schools education driven by profit overlooks the importance of mother tongue-based multilingual education, argues Dr. Robert Phillipson Some of the information in this Point...

Covid-secure at a Trinity SELT Centre

If you are taking an English exam for immigration purposes in the UK, you need to go to a Secure English Language Test (SELT)...

The student on your doorstep

The chaos of Covid-19 is not unprecedented. Ron Ragsdale and Melanie Butler examine the options On 5 Oct 1918, faced with the Spanish flu pandemic,...

Teach in Slovakia

Rakesh Bhanot explores the benefits of teaching in picturesque Slovakia Thinking of teaching English in a picturesque city in Central or Eastern Europe? Consider Bratislava,...
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