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Swindle closes school

The Devon School of English was driven into bankruptcy because its accountant had been illegally taking out money totalling £260,000 over four years. James...

Travel, technology and togetherness

English UK’s Susan Young rounds up its latest conference Nineteen months and a pandemic separated English UK’s last two face-to-face events. The 2019 marketing conference...

A year of firsts

The annual ELTons Innovation Awards saw a range of new winners On 15 November 2021, the ELTons went truly global. Entries for the annual British...

New member for English UK board

English UK, the national association for English language teaching centres in the UK, has appointed a new board member after a surprise departure by...

Cash boost for language app

Showing there’s money where its mouth is, Estonian EdTech startup Lingvist has raised €5.1 million in its latest fundraising round. Launched back in 2013, its...

Minimum wage hike to hit UK summer courses

UK residential summer schools face a massive rise in staff costs this summer with minimum wage rates rising up to 23% since 2019, the...

China’s extracurricular crackdown angers parents

On 4 October, parents and employees gathered outside the headquarters of OneSmart Education, one of China's embattled after-school education companies, demanding their money. By 11...

Improving teachers’ skills

The first Partnered Remote Learning Improvement Project (PRELIM) was such a success that now PRELIM II is being launched. PRELIM is run by the British...

TEFL takes off

The pandemic has affected people in all sorts of ways and one more to add to the list is teaching English as a foreign...

Czechs not bouncing back to languages

Language schools in the Czech Republic are reporting a drop in enrolment of up to 50% compared to before March 2020 when the Covid...