Guruism can be detrimental to your professional health
After the initial feeling of awe over an inspiring idea, Paula Rebolledo says we need to think how it can be adapted rather than...
Teach in: Teaching Online
El Gazette looks at teaching online as an alternative to in-person teaching, and the best places to look for online work
Between the pandemic and...
Time to go back to the school room
As adult language schools crash across the world, Ron Ragsdale and Melanie Butler argue that Covid-19 has served to speed up inevitable market changes
Perhaps...
Hamish Chalmers: Trusting the evidence
Ron Ragsdale talks to Hamish Chalmers, language education researcher and former international school teacher, about the power of randomised trials
An Oxford Professor once told...
A focus on monolingualism short-changes the needs of students
International schools education driven by profit overlooks the importance of mother tongue-based multilingual education, argues Dr. Robert Phillipson
Some of the information in this Point...
Covid-secure at a Trinity SELT Centre
If you are taking an English exam for immigration purposes in the UK, you need to go to a Secure English Language Test (SELT)...
The student on your doorstep
The chaos of Covid-19 is not unprecedented. Ron Ragsdale and Melanie Butler examine the options
On 5 Oct 1918, faced with the Spanish flu pandemic,...
Teach in Slovakia
Rakesh Bhanot explores the benefits of teaching in picturesque Slovakia
Thinking of teaching English in a picturesque city in Central or Eastern Europe? Consider Bratislava,...
Why international schools will weather the Covid storm
Matt Salusbury examines the potential long-term impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on international schools
International schools are preparing to re- open in September, many with...
The gathering storm?
As governments move to stop the job subsidises, the real damage to international education is likely to be done says Melanie Butler
It feels like...