General News
Schools and universities shed staff as students shun courses overseas
According to the Unesco Institute of Statistics, the end of the first week in April saw 1.5 billion children out of school across the...
ELT crisis hits headlines worldwide
New Zealand is the latest country where language schools’ pleas for government bailouts have featured in the national press. The ELT sector was the...
Thais to target 10,000 teachers
Thailand’s education minister, Nataphol Teepsuwan, met ambassadors from unnamed “English-speaking countries” in February and requested that they find teachers of English and other subjects...
Australia’s ELT industry “on the edge of a cliff”
A month after the Australian government released a strategy to make Australia the “destination of choice” for international English language students, industry association English...
New UK government, new SELTs
One of the first acts of the UK Government, elected in December, was to appoint providers for the Secure English Language Tests (SELT) needed...
Japan postpones new tests
Education minister Koichi Hagiuda has postponed controversial plans to introduce private English tests – including Japan’s Eiken test and ETS’s Toefl – alternatives to...
