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Report helps ELT centres plan recovery

Business News Liz Granirer - 7th July 2021

British ELT centres have see a drop of £590m in revenue since the start of the pandemic. To help them steer a path back...

Learn with Google

Business News Liz Granirer - 29th June 2021

Google is on the case to jump into the language-learning scene. It was already an early adopter with Google Translate, which was launched 13...

More centres

Business News Liz Granirer - 23rd June 2021

As well as Pearson’s existing two PTE test centres in Istanbul, it has now opened two more PTE centres in Turkey. They are in...

A winner

Business News Liz Granirer - 22nd June 2021

It seems that immersive VR is going mainstream, as yet another platform steps up to take a prize. This time it’s Immerse, an edtech startup...

Cook up a language lesson

Business News Liz Granirer - 11th June 2021

We all know that learning a new skill, whether it’s cooking or a foreign language, is easier if it’s put in context, so the...

Robot learning

Business News Liz Granirer - 9th June 2021

You want little Junior to speak English? Why not buy him a robot friend to teach him? Talkbo is the invention from PopSand Robotics...

Polish language learning gets partner

Business News Liz Granirer - 8th June 2021

Since 1948, Wydawnictwa Szkolne i Pedagogiczne SA (WSiP) has been running the ProfiLingua chain of foreign language schools and is the leading educational publisher...

Fortnite fosters English

Business News Liz Granirer - 28th May 2021

A Japanese dad has come up with a way of harnessing the allure of online games like Fortnite with teaching English. During Japan’s Covid-linked closures,...

Ready, set, watch

Business News Liz Granirer - 26th May 2021

A new partnership is offering free video English language teaching support, with the aim of aiding the delivery of online and video lessons. The...

Numbers tell a story

Business News Liz Granirer - 21st May 2021

English UK has released its Student Statistics Report for 2020 and it makes for somewhat gloomy, if unsurprising, reading. Year on year, full-time English language...