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Old is excellent, ELC BRIGHTON

in English schools

By Melanie Butler step further. Both its London and
Canterbury centres recently
As a rule of thumb, the best received perfect scores – the first
educational institutions in time any organisation has had two
England are both old and schools right at the top of the
independent. The latest results rankings.
from the British Council No-one in UK EFL will be
inspection follow that pattern, but surprised to see these ‘grand old
suggest a newer phenomenon: schools’ reach the top. Equally
grand old independent schools predictable is the progress made by ELC Brighton
becoming ‘bijou’ chains. St Giles Brighton (founded 1969)
Take ELC Brighton (founded and by Harrow Short Courses, ELC Brighton ✰ 15/15
1962) which has been awarded a owned by Harrow school, which
perfect score in the latest round of was founded in 1572. London School of English, London ✰ 14/14
inspections. It recently acquired Also in the young learners’ London School of English, Canterbury ✰ 14/14
English in Chester (founded market, we see a rise for King’s English in Chester 14/15
1976), which scores 14 out of 15 Summer, part of a small chain which Harrow Short Courses 12/15
areas of strength while its sister includes several boarding schools, St Giles Brighton 12/15
school ELC Eastbourne, founded and the emergence of IH London King’s Summer 10/15
in 1936 under the name Young Learners, a relatively recent IH London Young Learners 9/15
Eastbourne School of English, addition to the 66-year-old not-for-
achieved 13 out of 15 earlier this profit school, just ahead of the Bell Young Learners year-round 8/15
year. Are we seeing the emergence year-round young learners’ centre at Newcastle College 8/15
of a not-for-profit chain? Bell St Albans. One Further
London School of English, Education centre, Newcastle ✰ Perfect score
founded in 1912, has gone one College, also makes the cut.

China arrests

US recruiters since 1962

ELC is an educational charity with over 50 years’ experience in
delivering training courses for teachers of English!
By Melanie Butler
GOFUNDME Teacher Training/Development
Jacob Harlan, founder of the China • Primary and secondary courses eligible for EU
Horizons placement programme, funding through ERASMUS
and programme director Alyssa
Petersen, were detained in • Tailor-made courses in Brighton or in country
September in Jiangsu Province, on • Specialists in CLIL
charges of “organizing others to Alyssa Peterson
illegally cross the border”,
according to the New York Times. and either a 120-hour TESOL
Harlan’s company is one of certificate or two years teaching
many recruitment agencies vying experience (See page 31).
for foreign graduates to teach in Research by the EL Gazette
China. The country’s private reveals that China Horizon teachers
language sector alone employs were being placed in state schools
400,000 foreign teachers, two- and private boarding schools. They
thirds of them teaching illegally, were offered one week’s Tesol
according to the local press. training on arrival in Beijing and
Teacher shortages have were not required to have teaching
increased following the experience. Teachers’ visas were
introduction this year of stricter arranged by the company.
visa rules. Foreign teachers must Two Chinese nationals were
now obtain a Z visa before convicted earlier this year of www.elc-schools.com
entering the county, and need to bringing in foreign teachers
have a passport from an English- without the required qualifications
speaking country, a first degree, or Z visas.
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