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Kaplan-owned summer schools named and shamed

Summer school operator Alpadia UK Ltd – now owned by Kaplan – was one of over 500 companies which failed to pay national minimum wage to all of its...

VAT fears vanish from most UK language schools

UK Language schools are heaving a sigh of relief after fears that their fees might be subject to...

Wall Street English launch Speak+

Wall Street English have launched Speak+, a new service providing immersive English speaking practice classes. Speak+ consists of English...

How one English school succeeds in recruiting and retaining staff

In a world where EFL teachers are in short supply across the Anglosphere, a language school in Bournemouth,...

US: new coalition launches with a focus on international student recruitment

The US for Success Coalition has been created in an effort to attract more international students, and encourage...

How Inspired Education beat the curse of Covid-19 and won

At the end of June, picture- perfect British boarding school King’s College St Michaels in Tenbury Wells closed, making all the staff redundant. The...

Closures keep coming as UK ELT reopens

In mid-August, Thompkins Education Group announced that all five of its TEG English centres, including the recently opened Birmingham centre, had ceased trading. Another...

MPs call for help as third of UK Language schools face closure

An estimated thirty per cent of UK language schools are not expected to survive the summer, British parliamentarians heard during a debate on the...

UK government bails out British Council

The UK government has given the British Council a second cash injection of £60 million, according to the Guardian newspaper. The money, which comes...

Seven language schools go in North America

A flurry of language school closures in North America demonstrates the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns on the language travel industry. Stafford House, owned by Chinese...

Covid pushes BC to the brink

The British Council is facing financial disaster as the global pandemic has forced 203 of its language schools worldwide to close, as well as...
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