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WELCOME . EDITORS’ LETTER

Thinking ahead

Read on to find out everything you need to know
to make your summer plans theteam

If you’re wondering what to do with the warmer months this year, we’ve got you covered. Whether MELANIE BUTLER,
you’re a teacher looking to bolster your income and broaden your horizons or a language school editor-in-chief,
agent wanting to know what’s on offer and where, our Summer School supplement, pages 15-29, started teaching EFL in
Iran in 1975. She worked
will give you all the inside gen you need. for the BBC World Service,
It kicks off with the UK summer school rankings, so you can see at a glance who offers what and Pearson/Longman and
where their strengths lie. Then our resident expert, Melanie Butler, dives into what gives British MET magazine before
boarding schools the edge when it comes to residential learning. For older students – and for taking over at the Gazette in 1987 and
teachers – she explains why a summer university experience could be the perfect feather to go in also launching Study Travel magazine.
the cap of anyone’s CV. And, on the subject of employment, she also gives universities the thumb’s Educated in 10 schools in seven countries,
she speaks fluent French and Spanish, and
up. Find out why on page 25. There’s also good news for British teachers on page 23, but while one rather rusty Italian.
hand gives, the other takes away, or so it seems in a post-Brexit world. Turn to pages 26 and 27 to melanie@elgazette.com
discover why this is, along with a hand-holding walk through the visa maze.
We also take a long hard look at LIZ GRANIRER,
More institutions that discrimination in ELT, from native editor, has edited for
parenting, travel and kids’
speakerism (see page 6), to sexism and
are breaking EU laws are racism (pages 32 and 33). Fortunately, more magazines, writes for a
number of print and online
institutions that are breaking EU laws are
publications, and has
being brought to book, being brought to book, but there’s still a long worked on a range of
way to go from the ground up, as English UK
well-known consumer and
but there’s still a long has discovered in a recent survey. However, contract magazines.
editor@elgazette.com
the organisation is taking steps to rectify
this and is actively aiming to support those
way to go teachers adversely affected. Be up to date on GILL RAGSDALE,
what it has planned and how to seek help. research news reporter,
For classroom teaching tips, turn to page 30. An innovative teacher has come up with has a PhD in Evolutionary
comprehensive ways to integrate watching films into lesson plans. He explains how to do it, Anthropology from
Cambridge and teaches
including which films to watch and how to make the most of the learning opportunities they Psychology with the Open
provide. A must-read for those wanting to up the engagement and motivation of their students. University. She also holds
There’s also a fascinating insight into how English language teachers in Egypt have been coping an RSA-Cert TEFL. Gill has taught EFL in
through the pandemic (page 34), the latest research into the English language (page 8), the the UK, Turkey, Egypt and to refugees in
the Calais ‘Jungle’ in France. She currently
potential end of native speakerism (page 7), business news (page 10), the next addition to your teaches English to refugees in the UK.
bookshelf (page 36) and updates on teacher training (page 12).
It’s an information-packed issue, so get reading. CHARLOTTE DYASON,
senior sales, a graduate
LIZ GRANIRER, EDITOR of Canterbury and
editor@elgazette.com experienced education
marketer, Charlotte has a
wealth of expertise and
knowledge to assist with
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Business Management
(Westminster) and
30 years’ publishing
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