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DCONVERTINI

London terrorist was English teacher

By: Melanie Butler into pedestrians on Westminster Two years later, he went to statement on the Embassy web-
Bridge and ended when he was Saudi Arabia on a 12 month con- site confirms.
shot dead in the grounds of the tract to teach English, returning Masood’s CV, found on his
Khalid Masood, the British citi- British Houses of parliament. for a further twelve months in website by the British press,
zen who killed four people during The attacker, born in 1964 and 2008, according to the Saudi also claims that he taught in an
an attack in Westminster, Lon- originally named Adrian Elms, Embassy in London. ‘During his unidentified language school in
don, previously taught English in had a history of violent crime time in Saudi Arabia, Khalid Luton before setting up his own
Saudi Arabia, the Saudi embassy and is believed to have been Masood did not appear on the teaching business in Birming-
has confirmed. The attack, which converted to Islam while he was security services’ radar and does ham.
lasted only 82 seconds, began jailed following a knife attack in not have a criminal record in No evidence has so far been
when Masood rammed his car 2003. the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,’ a found to support these claims nor
the assertions in his CV that he
LANGUAGE SCHOOLS REASSURE FAMILIES had a degree in Economics and
was a qualified EFL teacher.
Language school association English UK She assured families that the association’s Aysha Frade, one of the four
issued a statement to reassure students and members take their responsibility to protect victims killed in the attack, was
families the day after the attack in Westmin- students very seriously, and have the strictest also linked to English Language
ster. Sarah Cooper, the chief executive, praised regulations in the world on caring for under teaching.
the ‘quick and effective’ response of police 18s and keeping them safe. She also pointed The family of the British born
and security services and said that Londoners, out that the Mayor of London has increased teacher of Spanish origin who
though shocked, are ‘determined that the city the number of armed and unarmed police worked as a teacher for a London
will not be stopped by this one random attack’. officers on the streets of London. high school run an English lan-
guage school in Galicia.
newsinbrief

CANADA’S ELT AROUND 60 per cent THE NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL THE JAPANESE
sector suffered a slight of European lower University of Singapore STUDENT numbers in beauty brand Shiseido
decline last year, despite secondary students topped the recently Australia have increased has announced plans
growth in the country’s studied more than released THE rankings of 11 per cent in 2016 to make English its
international education one foreign language the best 300 universities from 2015, reaching a official language as of
industry of about 92 in 2015, according in Asia. Another new high of 554,179, 2018. The company is
per cent between 2008 to Eurostat. The top Singaporean University, according to figures following in the footsteps
and 2015, according three countries were Nanyang Technological released by the Australian of a number of other
to online magazine Icef Luxembourg, where University, is in fourth Department of Education companies to switch to
Monitor. Observers say all students studied at place, down from second and Training. Education English as their official
the fall could be down to least two languages, last year. Second and is now the third largest corporate language,
increased competition and then Finland and Italy. third are two Chinese export for the country. including Volkswagen.
new visa regulations, which The most popular institutions, Peking Increasing numbers of That particular move
require students to apply language is still University and Tsinghua Australian students are angered some German
for two study permits if English, studied by University. Japan is Asia’s also studying abroad, linguists, who sold their
they wish to enrol in pre- 97 per cent of pupils, top university nation especially in short term shares of the company,
sessional English language followed by French at overall with 69 featured programmes of less than the Local Germany
programmes. 33.8 per cent. institutions. one semester. reported.

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