Dr Biden pledges to keep teaching
The victory of Joe Biden in November’s US Presidential election will mean there will be a working English as a second language teacher in...
EF teacher barred from profession
A teacher at EF Academy international boarding school in Oxford was barred from teaching “indefinitely” (to be reviewed in 2025) after a Department of...
Korean hagwons to use electronic registration system
The Korean government is planning to introduce its new electronic registration system in English language schools and cram schools, collectively known as hagwons. The...
Schools and universities shed staff as students shun courses overseas
According to the Unesco Institute of Statistics, the end of the first week in April saw 1.5 billion children out of school across the...
ELT crisis hits headlines worldwide
New Zealand is the latest country where language schools’ pleas for government bailouts have featured in the national press. The ELT sector was the...
Thais to target 10,000 teachers
Thailand’s education minister, Nataphol Teepsuwan, met ambassadors from unnamed “English-speaking countries” in February and requested that they find teachers of English and other subjects...
