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China Arrests US Recruiters
Jacob Harlan, founder of the China Horizons placement programme, and programme director Alyssa Petersen, were detained in September in Jiangsu Province, on charges of...
Drop in US numbers hit IEPs, language schools
The Intensive English Program (IEP) sector, which includes pre-university intensive English language courses in the US, continues to shrink, according to 2018 figures released...
Stars and start-ups storm the ELTons
This year’s ELTon awards was hosted by the utterly irrepressible Benjamin Zephaniah, author, playwright, Rasta Dub poet and British National Treasure.
It was a night...
Brits behind as book trade booms?
McGraw Hill Education and Cengage Learning are to merge, according to the Financial Times. The new company, which will include National Geographic Learning, will...
Boston school bankrupt, 50 teachers left unpaid
The attorney general of the state of Massachusetts is investigating the sudden closure of the Boston Language Institute leaving students stranded and teachers unpaid.
The...
STOP PRESS
British Council staff in Italy have taken strike action in protest against proposals put forward by the Council in February to make 19 staff...
