Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Features and Comment

TOEFL: Assessing the test

How does the new TOEFL Writing assess test-takers’ use of grammar? Joanna Buckle examines the test and gives her take The TOEFL has gone from being a test with an...

Global Scale of English 10 years on

As the Global Scale of English celebrates its 10-year anniversary, Mike Mayor, Senior Director for the GSE, reflects on its impact and considers how it can continue to support our teaching efforts in the future.

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...

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:...

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,...

Why international schools will weather the Covid storm

Matt Salusbury examines the potential long-term impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on international schools International schools are preparing to re- open in September, many with...

The gathering storm?

As governments move to stop the job subsidises, the real damage to international education is likely to be done says Melanie Butler It feels like...

Is China changing its mind about English?

Don’t mess with the mouse, as they say in Hollywood when the subject of the Disney Corporation comes up. So, news that Disney English...

UK Pathway Centres learn quickly

INTO Manchester has had to adapt, Sandra Fraser tells the Gazette How has INTO Manchester adapted to online teaching and learning? We had to adapt quickly!...
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