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£3.50 • US$6.50 • ¥700 • €5.50 The newspaper for English language and international education Issue 437 | June 2016

Judo star

badly hurt

a BritiSH judo star and eFl
Inside... teacher has been left in a critical
condition after an accident in Ha
long, vietnam.
Courtesy of Khalid Gehlan via Stephanie Inglis’s Facebook page dress caught in a wheel. She
on 10 May Stephanie ing-
lis (pictured left) was taking a
scooter taxi to work when her
currently is in a coma in a viet-
namese hospital. Her travel
insurer claimed her coverage was
void, so friend Khalil gehlan
began a goFundMe campaign to
save her. as of 24 May, the cam-
paign has raised £230,000 goal
– enough to transfer Stephanie to
a hospital in Bangkok.
‘Words cannot and never will
be able to express the gratitude ...
for what you have all done,’ said
Pages 6–7: ELjobs – gehlan. ‘you have potentially
why Yue Yingchun is on Profits plummet FIGHT FOR LIFE The recently injured saved her life.’
company
insurance
a mission for the masses Tefler Stephanie Inglis (see right) was a refused to comment on the situ-
the
renowned judoka, representing Scotland in
as Brexit looms the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where ation but has donated £10,000 as
a ‘gesture of goodwill’.
she won the silver medal in the women’s
‘the first hours were crucial,
57kg event. ‘Although you could say that
was the pinnacle of her career, at 27 she
we might have had a very different
still had a lot of judo in her,’ said Ronnie and had it not been for all of us ...
Saez, chairman of JudoScotland and story on our hands,’ gehlan said.
MELANIE BUTLER ber of Parliament for Bournemouth, home British Judo. ‘We all hope to see her readers can visit www.gofundme.
writes to Britain’s second-largest language school involved again.’ com/23yq67t4 to help. n
community. in a letter to a local paper,
Uncertainty over the result of the he blamed the pressure on local language
eU referendum is causing ‘unprecedented schools on the reduction in the number of
damage’ to the UK language teaching indus- non-eU students admitted forced on the UK
try, one cambridge language school has because of uncontrolled immigration from
claimed. John Barnett of cambridge acad- europe. ‘in an attempt to cut migration num-
emy of english warned in his local press that bers it is being made harder and harder for
Page 8: Egypt’s mountain summer bookings were being hit because of those outside the eU to come here,’ he wrote.
to climb – the challenges currency exchange uncertainty. Molly Scott cato, Member of the euro-
faced by its ELT sector this comes on the back of a 25 per cent pean Parliament for the area disagrees. ‘it is
drop in the number of course weeks sold in the tory government’s immigration policy
the UK last year, according to unaudited and not the eU that is portraying this coun-
early return figures from english UK mem- try as hostile to international students,’ she
bers. enrolments in ireland, the UK’s closest told the Bournemouth Daily Echo.
rival, rose 10 per cent in the same period. a British vote to leave the eU (‘Brexit’)
in a recent survey 75 per cent of members is likely to have an adverse effect, particu-
of trade association english UK reported larly on long-stay students from europe, if
that a vote to leave the eU would further current restrictions on international students
damage the industry. Just 6 per cent of were applied to eU nationals. the UK would
respondents felt that leaving would have a also lose access to eU-funded language
positive effect. study, such as the italian Pon scheme which
english UK chair Steve Phillips said that brings in up to 50,000 students a year. the
the association’s partners and colleagues in future of teacher training for eU teachers,
europe had been ‘encouraging us to speak largely funded through the eU erasmus+
up for the valuable business and cultural scheme, would also be in doubt. However,
partnership we share and enjoy’. eU nation- the dramatic drop in the value of sterling,
Page 10–14: Round-up als make up just under half of all language forecast by some economists as likely in the
of UK and Irish Tesol students coming to the UK. event of Brexit, might go some way to ame-
and related masters arguing for Brexit is conor Burns, Mem- liorating the situation. n

Schools minister fails test

england’S engliSH grammar test- two grammar tests for eleven-year-olds
ing for eleven-year-olds was frequently in were leaked ahead of the test date within
the news in May. First, minister for schools a week, one allegedly by a ‘rogue marker’
nick gibb failed a grammar question from engaged in a ‘campaign’ to ‘undermine these
the year 2 Sats test live on BBc radio, tests’, according to england’s department for
wrongly identifying a subordinating con- education. come test day, 2,000 parents took
junction as a preposition. then green Party their children out of school to protest against
MP caroline lucas asked prime minister the tests. labour MP Helen goodman gave
david cameron, ‘for the benefit of ten- and gibb a second chance, asking him in the
eleven-year-olds’ to ‘differentiate between a House of commons a grammar question on
subordinating conjunctive and coordinating ‘my baby was born in hospital … in the hos-
4-page supplement: conjunctive’. avoiding the question, cam- pital where my father worked’. gibb replied
Using our new website to eron said he was ‘delighted’ such tests were that from ‘bitter experience’ he’d learnt not to
hunt out top-quality schools improving standards in schools. respond to such ‘provocation’. n

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