Bangladeshi parents demand fee waiver
Parents of students at English-medium schools, organised as the Bangladesh English Medium Schools Forum, held a press conference in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, in September,...
News in brief
BELARUS: Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the presidential candidate in the recent Belarusian election who was forced to flee to Lithuania, is a former English teacher. As...
Syrian refugee girls shine
On 4 August, a massive explosion in the Beirut harbour area left huge parts of the Lebanese capital in ruins. The next morning at...
New “mother tongue” education policy in India
At the end of the July, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a new national educational policy of using the “mother tongue” or “local...
Fraud and bribery in the Cayman Islands
Three immigration officials are among nine people sentenced to prison in July in the British Carribean territory for their part in a “fraud and...
New visa regulations in South Korea
New visa regulations announced by the Justice Ministry in July are likely to mean foreign English language teachers – who are usually on low...
