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Courtesy English UK
Scholarship scales new heights
Seventeen members of the extended
English UK family have completed the
Three Peaks Challenge, climbing Ben
Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, the
highest mountains in Scotland, England
and Wales respectively. They raised over
£16,000 for the Eddie Byers Scholarship
Fund, which pays tribute to English UK’s
late chief executive and his passion for
the transformative power of education,
and aims to help prospective students
study English in the UK.
They were joined by Sam Byers,
Eddie’s wife, who on the top of Ben
Nevis produced a bottle of
Glenmorangie single malt Scotch
whisky and glasses from her rucksack
to toast Eddie’s memory.
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ELawards October 2016
Star Awards announced
THE ST Star Awards are a peer-voted celebration
in which key players in the study travel industry
– travel agents, language schools, insurance pro-
viders – vote for their preferred partners. Five
providers are shortlisted for each of the 23 cate-
gories before a winner is announced. Here are the
winners in the six categories most relevant to the
ELT industry.
First of all, English language schools in different
regions of the world. The New Zealand Language
Centre won the ST Star English Language School
Southern Hemisphere for the third year in a row, Courtesy ST Alphe UK
which places the school on track to become a Study
Travel Superstar, a title awarded to those that win
in their respective category a total of five times. ST REWARDING EXCELLENCE Quality English
to ISI Ireland, which won the award in 2014 as well. picked up the ST Star School Association award
Star English Language School Europe was awarded
As for North America, the award went, for the first
time, to Inlingua Vancouver.
Superstars after winning five times each since 2006.
Second, chains and specialist providers. EC
celebrated its quarter of a century with a pleasant This year’s winner is Quality English, a language
school and college association with members in
present: the ST Star Chain School award. Embassy eight countries. Earlier this year, founder Carolyn
Blackmore handed over the reins to Jonathan Swin-
English won the award last year, and they are now
in the Superstar Hall of Fame. The ST Star Jun- dell, while remaining director of the company.
Jodie Gray, who organised the ior Course for under-18s went to the EL Gazette This year’s winners were announced at ST Alphe
Challenge for English UK, said, ‘It was Centre of Excellence Churchill House School of UK at the beginning of September. Judging by
just brilliant. It was a challenge for English. the available data, which shows that at the 2015
everyone who took part, whether they Finally, language school associations. The story ST Star Awards Ceremony winners came from 32
did one mountain or three, but we all of the ST Star School Association award is domi- countries and drank 1004 bottles of wine and 1061
worked together to make it happen. nated by Ialc and English UK, both of which became bottles of beer, it must have been a great party. 
We’ve all got a fantastic sense of
achievement now, and our next job is
to get the scholarship up and running.’
The Eddie Byers Scholarship Fund Seven of the best
reached its target of £15,000 as the
team neared the summit of Ben Nevis,
but is still taking donations. To support
the Eddie Byers Scholarship, follow THE BRITISH Council Inspec- New and re-inspected Centres of Excellence
this link: http://uk.virginmoneygiving. tors’ summary statements for September 2016
com/charity-web/charity/ these seven Centres of Excel- Bishopstrow College staff management, student administration,
displayCharityCampaignPage.action?c lence were published just days quality assurance, premises and facilities, learning resources, academic
harityCampaignUrl=ebscholarship after we went to press on our management, course design, learner management, teaching, care of
annual round-up of the best students, accommodation, leisure opportunities, care of under-18s
schools in the UK, based on Brit-
ish Council inspection results. Kings Oxford staff management, student administration, quality
assurance, academic management, course design, learner management,
Their names are published here teaching, care of students, leisure opportunities, and care of under-18s
in rank order, along with their
areas of strengths and any need CES Harrogate staff management, student administration, quality
for improvement as listed on assurance, course design, care of students, accommodation, leisure
the summary statements. New opportunities, and care of under-18s
entries are in blue. CES Edinburgh staff management, quality assurance, premises
The highest-scoring centre, and facilities, teaching, care of students, accommodation, leisure
with twelve points of strength, opportunities, and care of under-18s
is Bishopstrow College, making Colchester Institute areas of staff management, quality
it the top-scoring international assurance, premises and facilities, learning resources, academic man-
study centre and the second- agement, course design, learner management, care of students, and
highest-ranked boarding-school leisure opportunities. Need for improvement: accommodation
provider in the scheme. Among Mayflower College of English staff management, student
the new entrants are two CES administration, quality assurance, publicity, academic management,
schools, Edinburgh and Har- learner management, care of students, and care of under-18s
rogate, which join their Oxford Embassy English Oxford staff management, quality assurance,
school as Centres of Excellence, learning resources, academic management, course design, teaching,
pushing the Irish-owned chain and leisure opportunities
above Embassy in the rank-
ings, whose Oxford school has
dropped a little but remains in the tute, a further education college ulations to Mayflower College
list. Also among the chains, Kings with a long history of EFL and of English, now the highest-
Oxford has gone up slightly. Esol, back into the Excellence ranking centre in Plymouth,
We welcome Colchester Insti- rankings and extend our congrat- based on Council results. 
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