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December 29th, 2008

TEFL Teachers Hooked on World of Warcraft

For the inexperienced and / or uninitiated among you, I should start by explaining what this is all about… World of Warcraft (commonly known by the acronym WoW) is a massively popular online multiplayer role-playing game which is currently being played by English teachers all across the globe. There is even a thread dedicated to […]

December 26th, 2008

U.S. needs to ‘Americanize’ immigrants or face trouble!

United States: The United States must embark on an aggressive effort to integrate immigrants, including teaching them English and U.S. history, a federal task force recommended Thursday. The report strongly emphasizes that immigrants must learn English in order to fully integrate into American society. Alfonso Aguilar, head of the U.S. Office of Citizenship, said immigrants […]

December 3rd, 2008

Getting started in World of Warcaft Accounts

For the ‘dilettante’ among you, World of Warcraft (also known by the acronym WoW) is a massively popular online multiplayer role-playing game, played by English teachers all around the World. In April of this year, it was estimated that WoW held more than 60% of the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) market. Furthermore, with somewhere […]

November 22nd, 2008

Pupils in the EU are learning foreign languages at an earlier age

Europe: Pupils in the European Union are learning foreign languages at a younger age, even as young as three, while English is learnt by 90 per cent of all European pupils at some stage of their compulsory education, according to a study by the Eurydice Network.
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November 3rd, 2008

World of Warcaft Accounts

For the uninitiated among you, World of Warcraft (commonly known by the acronym WoW) is a massively popular online multiplayer role-playing game. With somewhere in the region of 11 million monthly subscribers, World of Warcraft is currently the world’s largest massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) and is the holder of the Guinness World Record […]

October 31st, 2008

US: Fugitive Recovery Agent Training

Once you’ve started down a particular career path, teaching English being no exception, changing jobs after several years can be difficult and extremely daunting. With this in mind, I wonder how many of you have ever thought about what it could be like to be a part of the bail enforcement industry possibly as a […]

October 23rd, 2008

Solving the Educational Printing Dilemma

Let’s face it, whichever educational institution you happen to be working for, wherever in the world you happen to be, if the issue of budgetary control of photocopying and printing doesn’t rear its ugly head, you have to consider yourself very, very lucky. It’s of course not just everyday printing needs that eat so heavily […]

September 30th, 2008

Too much English spoken in Europe?

The European Day of Languages on 26th September has prompted some to ask whether we need to re-assess the dominance of the English language in Europe, and in the European economy. Should there be a linguistic tax on English speakers?
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September 18th, 2008

Cheap hotels in Spain and Beyond

As  international teachers of English, we are in frequent need of good value ways to travel around the world. In this day and age, the best place to look for the good deals are, naturally, onlne. If you’re looking for cheap hotels and accommodation arrangements in Spain - or anywhere in Europe - then a great […]

September 16th, 2008

United Arab Emirates: Yemeni security forces learn English

English-speaking expatriates and foreign tourists in Yemen can now communicate easily with security forces, thanks to the Ministry of Interior’s initiative to equip their staff with essential language tools by sending them to the Frances Guy Institute (FGI), which is based at the Central Security Forces (CSF) in Sana’a. “The idea of establishing an institute […]