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NEWS .

Teachers in Korean newspaper The Korea Times, the
founder of CBIS had obtained a
licence from the Seoul Education
deportation ‘nightmare’ Office as a private language school,
not an international school.
Teachers faced with deportation
say they have been caught up in a
‘bureaucratic nightmare’.
In a Skype meeting with British
By Claudia Civinini Columbia ministry of education
A total of 14 Canadian teachers officials, one of the teachers
working at an international school said she had been detained by
in Seoul have been forced to FAUSTUS SALVADOR / YOUTUBE Korean immigration officials and
leave the country because they interrogated for three hours.
had the wrong visas, according to Under threat of arrest, she said
broadcaster CBC. she was forced to confess that she
CBIS Canada, one of five had knowingly obtained the wrong
schools in Korea accredited by visa, even though she had not.
the Canadian province of British ‘I had to confess out loud to
Columbia (BC), was ordered to something I didn’t do wrong. Now,
close because of issues around its I’m a criminal’, she said.
licence, officials confirmed. Teachers made heartfelt Teachers said that they weren’t
pleas for help from
All the CBIS teachers are state British Columbia officials via Skype aware they were violating
qualified in Canada. But they were immigration laws. The BC ministry
found to be infringing Korean law Other Canadian teachers in 11 of schools across the globe listed on of education says it is undertaking
because they held E2 visas designed BC’s accredited schools worldwide BC’s website as ‘certified offshore a review of all its accredited
for private language school teachers may be affected by similar issues, schools’, following the province’s international schools in South
rather than the E4 visas required to the province’s official website curriculum. Korea to ensure that they hold the
teach in international schools. confirmed. CBIS is one of 46 According to English-language correct licence.

JUNCKER enjoyed some celebrity as Italy, Juncker said he was torn Downton Abbey,’ said The Sun
The English language recently
between English and French. He in a lengthy article about the
JAPE SPARKS seemingly every journalist in said that ‘slowly but surely English importance of English that dragged
the English-speaking world was
is losing importance in Europe’. Shakespeare, Dickens, the Bronte
ENGLISH forced to write about its enduring Since the French elections were to sisters and J.K. Rowling into the
importance.
happen soon, he wanted people in matter. Juncker’s words about the
The outpouring started as France to understand what he was refugee crisis
MEDIA EU Commission president Jean- saying, he added, and he switched on the other
Claude Juncker chose to begin to French. hand didn’t
STORM a speech with a platitude (in The English-speaking press have much
English) about the status of the didn’t pick up on the easy mockery impact – EUROPEAN PEOPLE’S PARTY
English language after Brexit. of France’s English-speaking after all, he
Speaking at the 7th State of the abilities and defended the lingo was speaking
Union Conference in Florence, instead. ‘Even the French love French.

newsinbrief

ENGLISH UK A LIFELIKE humanoid A MAN HOPING to set THE BRITISH English language
has admitted there robot didn’t impress up Palestine’s first ever COUNCIL teaching.
is ‘a distinct lack of observers when she English language library has praised the It said she had had
awareness’ among its came face to face with an is a step further towards ‘invaluable’ contribution ‘a major impact’
members about what American journalist. his goal after raising a former chief schools on the teaching of
the association actually When interviewed by $15,000 on a crowd- inspector made to the English as a foreign
does. The organisation Kevin Kelly, co-founder of funding website. ELT industry. language through
made the admission as the tech magazine Wired, Mosab Abu Toha, Hilary Parnall, who her work in teacher
it released depressing the Chinese ‘Jia Jia’ an English language died in April, was chief training, training fellow
figures showing that robot failed to give some teacher from the inspector of the BC’s inspectors and text
the United Kingdom answers and sometimes town of Beit Lahiya, school accreditation book development.
language school market took up to 10 seconds to said donations to his scheme from 1994 to ‘She will be
(see page 18) has reply. campaign surged after 2015. remembered most
declined for the third But when asked about he received public The BC described Ms by colleagues and
consecutive year. her age, the droid, support from the Parnall, who had a long the ELT sector for
A press release said dubbed ‘robot goddess’ legendary American and varied Tefl career her gentleness,
a survey of members for her attractive linguist Noam Chomsky. and wrote several well supportiveness and
earlier this year had appearance, responded ‘I expected to get $7,000, known course books, patience. We will all
revealed the lack of ‘it’s a secret’, South China $8,000 maximum,’ Mr as ‘committed to the miss her very much’, a
clarity over its purpose. Morning Post reports. Toha told The National. cause’ of improving statement said.

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