Thursday, March 27, 2025

EU Special

…as boarding schools get bounce from Brexit

Demand by EU students, especially from Spain and Germany, for places at Irish boarding school are soaring, according to a recent article in the Irish Times. The paper ascribes this...

Is European ELT facing a continental shift?

Demography is the real danger, says Melanie Butler The mood in European EFL is generally glum. And it’s not...

French put fees up to attract more students

France is investing in improving facilities for its international students, just as a big increase in fees its...

British lettori battle on as Brexit looms

The saga of the lettori – foreign language lecturers, unlawfully paid less and engaged on worse contracts than...

Down in Devon

Melanie Butler explores young learning in Devon Devon offers the best quality of life in England, according to an...

Irish eye a Brexit bounce for ELT

Figures recently released by language schools’ association Marketing English in Ireland (MEI), show that the sector’s total student enrolments for 2018 was just over...

Academic excellence comes at a cost

Melanie Butler finds great CLIL summer courses, but choose with care The demand from the CLIL countries is clear: they want summer courses with Content...

EU agrees emergency funds for Erasmus in the UK

On 25 March, just four days before the UK was originally scheduled to leave the EU, the European Parliament rushed through a regulation protecting...

New Malta work rights to lure long stay students

An economic boom means Malta has work for international students and for teachers, Matt Salusbury reports Students from outside the EU on longer stays in...

Irish high schools clean up…

Melanie Butler reports on push to regulate high school sector A new inspection scheme for Ireland’s educational guardianship providers was launched in April as part...
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