Mother and son win battle with school
Two English language teachers – a mother and son – who resisted unfair contracts at their Japanese eikaiwa (English conversation school) have won huge...
Foreign students flood into the Netherlands
The “Anglicisation” of higher education in the Netherlands has caused a “code red crisis.” So begins a petition to the Dutch Parliament, sent in...
Irish eye a Brexit bounce for ELT
Figures recently released by language schools’ association Marketing English in Ireland (MEI), show that the sector’s total student enrolments for 2018 was just over...
EU agrees emergency funds for Erasmus in the UK
On 25 March, just four days before the UK was originally scheduled to leave the EU, the European Parliament rushed through a regulation protecting...
New Malta work rights to lure long stay students
An economic boom means Malta has work for international students and for teachers, Matt Salusbury reports
Students from outside the EU on longer stays in...
British government under scrutiny over treatment of students in Toeic test scandal
The UK Parliament’s watchdog, the National Audit Office (NAO), has criticised the UK government for its handling of the cases of thousands of international...
