Saturday, June 7, 2025

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Going online

Joining the online testing brigade is Michigan Language Assessment, a partnership between the University of Michigan and Cambridge Assessment English, which has joined up...

Boom!

In these booming online learning times, another platform has been launched, this time focusing solely on English language learners. The English Portal is the brainchild...

It’s co-operatively cool

Taking classes online when the pandemic hit was a great solution for many and filled the coffers of learning platforms, but it didn’t do...

Uni students look for face-to face teaching

Two recent reports confirm that international students are keen to travel again to take up face-to-face learning in overseas degree programmes, even if it...

UK ELT dealt heavy blow by pandemic

English UK, the national association for roughly 350 accredited English language teaching centre members in the UK, has released research that shows just how...

Maltese EFL “on its knees”

The Maltese government has ordered Malta’s English language sector to remain closed while the national schools have reopened. This “unexpected decision” has “brought the...

Nord Anglia back in UK buys Oxford International schools

International schools giant Nord Anglia Education, a familiar name to old UK EFL hands, has re-appeared on the British education scene with its recent...

Four more UKVI-approved test centres to open in UK

This month (April 2021), Pearson will open four more UK test centres where their Secure English Language Tests (SELTs), approved by UK Visas & Immigration...

EC quits Australasia in Covid-19 shake-up

Maltese-owned language school group EC has closed its operations in Australasia as part of a restructuring in response to the pandemic. CEO Andrew Mangion...

The business model behind the British school brands abroad boom

The news that Benenden School, the English girls’ school in Kent which is the alma mater of Princess Anne, has partnered with a Hong...