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...

“We should start by putting ourselves first, not our students”

Students suffer when teachers are stressed out, argues Lara Statham We always hear that we should be putting our students first. And I believe that...

Josefina Tinajero: Improving the outcomes for Latino learners

Ron Ragsdale talks to Dr Josefina Villamil Tinajero You were born in Mexico and came to Texas at the age of five with your family....

Is the EFL model broken in the UK and the US?

Melanie Butler gives her view After 30 years reporting on English language teaching, I am accustomed to waves of school closures in one English-speaking country...

Putting the whole of Ireland on the map

Melanie Butler tours the island’s EFL locations In the last decade, Irish EFL has spread out from its three original centres: Dublin, the youngest capital...

The sun sets on two ELT empires

The cosy hegemony of the US and the UK is ending. Melanie Butler and Ron Ragsdale examine why Shortly after the Second World War, representatives...

“Our house is always open”

IH London CEO Mark Rendell tells Melanie Butler why the future of ELT is innovation As CEO of International House London and in-coming chair of...
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