Saturday, March 29, 2025

UK Language Centre Rankings

In case you missed it: the UK language centre rankings 2023-24

It’s that time of year again! Melanie Butler walks us through what to expect in this year’s UK language centre rankings! Now the devastation of the COVID storm seems to...

Can you beat the boarding schools?

These year-round stalwarts know what they’re doing, says Melanie Butler British boarding schools are famed across the world for...

The Covid fall-out on Centres of Excellence

Melanie Butler on who has survived, thrived and dived in the past two years There have been a number...

Scores improve during Covid

Making sense of the numbers The mean average score for the number of areas of strength awarded to language...

Do points mean prizes?

Who does best in chain-school rankings? Melanie Butler finds out Who takes the prizes among the chains? Generally, the...

Top 50 language centres

Only the results of the top 50 language centres in the industry are reported in the attached PDF from the print edition. A total...

Strong Evidence

Melanie Butler explains the data behind the rankings The data for the EL Gazette UK Rankings comes from the summary statements of British Council inspection...

Seven secrets of a top school

John and Margaret Duncan and Andrew Edwards of ELC Bristol have made a habit of acing inspections. We asked them for their top tips...

GOOD IS THE NEW NORMAL

Our new rankings show ELT standards are rising to meet statistical norms, Melanie Butler explains “Schools aren’t getting better. It’s all grade inflation,” the superstar...

Case Studies

How do inspectors award an area of strength? Each of the areas inspected are divided into a number of criteria, on average six. Each...

Inspecting the reports

You can see our UK Language Centre Rankings 2018/19 supplement here Our rankings are designed to be fair and informative. But how are they compiled? How...
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