Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Features and Comment

What does English UK’s 2025 student statistics report tell us?  

UK ELT held steady in a year of global uncertainty and turbulence, according to the latest annual figures published by English UK.    English UK’s student statistics for 2024 show overall...

ACS International Schools: Let’s reshape how we view success

ACS International Schools releases statement on curriculum reform.

TOEFL: Assessing the test

How does the new TOEFL Writing assess test-takers’ use of grammar? Joanna Buckle examines the test and gives...

Global Scale of English 10 years on

As the Global Scale of English celebrates its 10-year anniversary, Mike Mayor, Senior Director for the GSE, reflects on its impact and considers how it can continue to support our teaching efforts in the future.

Policy, policy, policy: a glance back at 2024

Though it seems to have come and gone so quickly, 2024 is beginning to wrap itself up in...

It’s Summer and everyone is having fun. Aren’t they?

Summertime is here, ELLs are making headlines and some of the oldest shibboleths are being challenged, Melanie Butler writes. Well, Betsy DeVos certainly seems to...

‘Staff and students know this school is different’

IH London prides itself on its sense of community, a commitment to teachers and the quality of education it provides, its new management team...

Living Precariously

The conditions that can lead to poor mental health are ripe in English language teaching, argues Melanie Butler. Sometimes work cracks me up – in...

‘Regard it like an MOT test’

School inspections needn’t be scary, Ann Matsunaga tells Melanie Butler  Ann Matsunaga has had nearly every job in ELT, not to mention her time in...

EU special: Czeching it out

Declan Carey, an English teacher in Prague, gives you the low-down on teaching in the Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a fascinating country in...

Plug into the Digital zeitgeist

Digital tools for the classroom should be ‘quick and dirty’, focusing on four key areas, Thomas Strasser tells Melanie Butler An academic once told me...
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