Learning strange new words boosts long-term vocabulary
Learning words that are similar to the learner’s native language is easier in the short term, but learning less-familiar words pays off over the...
British Council struggles to survive as UK cuts cultural relations to 20 countries
The British Government has slashed its funding to the British Council by reducing the so-called Grant-in-Aid, which covers much of the Council’s work on...
The annual rankings
Which are the top ranked English language schools in the UK – and why? After a tumultuous year we publish this year’s list
Without mentioning...
Top centres more likely to survive Covid
Melanie Butler analyses the rankings and finds our top 100 are weathering the pandemic well
The main difference in this year’s ranking is not the...
EU unis offer chance to study in English
The Erasmus Mundus is still working for Pinoys, who can get financial aid through the programme to study in the EU. Further, universities within...
A bit of inspiration
When Fatma Al Nahdy arrived in the UK as a refugee from Yemen five years ago, she was already bilingual (Arabic and Swahili), but...
