British Council teachers hide in Afghanistan
Joseph Seaton, who has spent more than 20 years working on education and development programmes, and is now campaigning through #AtRiskTeachers, shares his concerns...
Announcing the winners of this year’s ELTons
Celebrating its 20th year, the British Council ELTons Awards ceremony, which honours innovation in English language teaching, took place in November 2022. The event...
Are too many schools spoiling the UK’s post-Covid recovery?
When Stevie Spring, chair of the British Council, opened the ELTons awards ceremony (see opposite page), she made an important announcement. There were, she...
English really is a universal language
Despite the apparent diversity of languages worldwide, from English to Farsi, from Arabic to Mandarin, there is a universal language network in the brain,...
Flipped learning
Weighing up if it’s worth the extra flippin’ work
Methods of flipped learning need to be better defined in order to prove they are more...
Italy’s foreign language lecturers are on the march again
In December 2022, a group of lettori, as foreign language lecturers are known in Italy, demonstrated outside the offices of the Minister for Higher...
