School non, streaming oui
A poll for Berlitz France Licorne found that 72% of French people don’t think their English lessons at school helped them to speak the...
Push for pre-school English in Japan
Although English is taught in Japanese schools, few learn the language sufficiently to hold even a simple conversation. The solution, according to Akira Murata,...
English teacher saved from bomb
An Afghan British Council English teacher and his wife were saved by soldiers from the Kabul airport bomb, which killed 170, with just minutes...
Another day, another test
The latest to join the online English proficiency test bandwagon is National Geographic Learning. Its National Geographic Learning Online Placement Test, part of the...
Sad news
Noor Ahmad Amiri, 26, who worked as an English teacher with the British Council at what was dubbed ‘the Sandhurst of Afghanistan’ died after...
Stock shock
It seems that China’s crackdown on those trying to make money from education may have now extended to language-learning apps. Duolingo, Memrise and Beelinguapp,...
