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...

Black teachers matter in British ELT

Racism has been rife in British EFL for two decades. There are signs of change but it may be too little too late, say...

First Person: In at the deep end

Isabel Davies recounts her first teaching experience – at an English-medium school in Hong Kong I first learned of TEFL from my older brother, who...

Noreen Caplen-Spence: Black Teachers Matter

Noreen Caplen-Spence shares her poems and thoughts with Ron Ragsdale If language is the tool of thought, James Joyce through Ulysses invented a way of thought And...

Sophia Howlett: Taking a holistic approach to teacher education

Dr Sophia Howlett of the School for International Training, Vermont, in conversation with Ron Ragsdale Your university education was in the UK and focussed on...

Big names, big debts, big problems?

Branded language schools are closing across the English-speaking world. Melanie Butler examines why. What do Stafford House, Global Village and inlingua have in common? They are...

Class struggle and the corona virus

Language schools and teachers are fighting their own grounds as teaching moves online The language school industry in Malta is not happy with the teachers...
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