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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...

Drop in US numbers hit IEPs, language schools

The Intensive English Program (IEP) sector, which includes pre-university intensive English language courses in the US, continues to shrink, according to 2018 figures released...

Stars and start-ups storm the ELTons

This year’s ELTon awards was hosted by the utterly irrepressible Benjamin Zephaniah, author, playwright, Rasta Dub poet and British National Treasure. It was a night...

Brits behind as book trade booms?

McGraw Hill Education and Cengage Learning are to merge, according to the Financial Times. The new company, which will include National Geographic Learning, will...

Boston school bankrupt, 50 teachers left unpaid

The attorney general of the state of Massachusetts is investigating the sudden closure of the Boston Language Institute leaving students stranded and teachers unpaid. The...

STOP PRESS

British Council staff in Italy have taken strike action in protest against proposals put forward by the Council in February to make 19 staff...
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