Wednesday, June 4, 2025

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Wall Street founder back

The Wall Street English website is still advertising teaching jobs in China, despite the fact that owners Barings Private Equity and CITIC announced the...

Revolutionary summer curriculum needs great teachers, say founders

Summer school stars Steve Wood, previously with Bede’s, and Bram van Asselt, of Exsportise, have joined forces to launch a new group of summer...

Wall Street Shuffle

In our favourite example of pass the financial parcel so far, Barings Private Equity and CITIC Capital have announced the sale of Wall Street...

Seven IH schools close in Eastern Spain

Teachers in facemasks held a demonstration in Terrassa, Catalonia’s third largest city, following the closure of the local International House (IH) school, one of...

How Inspired Education beat the curse of Covid-19 and won

At the end of June, picture- perfect British boarding school King’s College St Michaels in Tenbury Wells closed, making all the staff redundant. The...

Closures keep coming as UK ELT reopens

In mid-August, Thompkins Education Group announced that all five of its TEG English centres, including the recently opened Birmingham centre, had ceased trading. Another...

MPs call for help as third of UK Language schools face closure

An estimated thirty per cent of UK language schools are not expected to survive the summer, British parliamentarians heard during a debate on the...

UK government bails out British Council

The UK government has given the British Council a second cash injection of £60 million, according to the Guardian newspaper. The money, which comes...

Seven language schools go in North America

A flurry of language school closures in North America demonstrates the impact of Covid-19 lockdowns on the language travel industry. Stafford House, owned by Chinese...

Covid pushes BC to the brink

The British Council is facing financial disaster as the global pandemic has forced 203 of its language schools worldwide to close, as well as...