The issue of pensions in the country where you live compared with the state pension in the UK was raised recently on the Turkey forum. Without doubt, among the most important financial decisions you’re likely to make in your life are those concerning your retirement. In order to have a secure future with at least [...]
Scotland and Japan: Trainee architect Michael Gilchrist had one year to go before qualifying in his chosen profession… then recession struck and the former Charleston Academy pupil found himself redundant from the Glasgow firm for which he was working. With prospects running out he decided to cast around for something different to fill the gap [...]
Sweden and South Korea: ‘Today the English language level of the Swedish population is among the highest of all non-English-speaking countries in Europe. In Sweden we never imported English teachers from abroad,’ exlaims Ylva Olausson in the Korea Herald. ‘We never even considered it as an alternative. I believe the main reasons for this are [...]
Germany and Japan: Yomiuri notes how ‘The White Horse Theatre’, a theatrical troupe based in Germany but specialising in English-language theater for students, will make its third tour of Japan this autumn.
Established in 1986 by British playwright and drama teacher Peter Griffith, Europe’s biggest educational touring theater performs annually for 40,000 people learning English as [...]
Ireland: Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe has rejected the implication that there will be political interference in the appointment of additional language support teachers in primary schools.
The Minister was commenting after figures compiled by school principals in one Dublin suburb showed potential dramatic losses in language teacher numbers. The Budget placed a cap of two [...]
Malta: Students aged between 17 and 19 will be benefitting from an international public-speaking programme, with far-reaching aims, as the first concrete step of the English-Speaking Union’s establishment in Malta. English-Speaking Union director-general Valerie Mitchell has met head teachers and education officers and was impressed by the positive feedback, convinced that schools across the board [...]
Spain: The Public University of Navarre (UPNA) has presented the book, “Attitudes and beliefs of students of the UPNA to bilingualism and bilingual education”, a report on the research work undertaken by the University teachers Mr Pablo Sotés, Ms Nekane Oroz and Mr Carlos Vilches. The principal aim of the work was to find out [...]
United Kingdom: At lunchtime in a small classroom on the edge of Belfast, a small group of five and six year olds are listening to the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears – nothing unusual about that, except that they’re being read to in Irish. It is, admittedly on a very small scale – [...]
United Kingdom: From its origins in bilingual education, Content and Language Integrated Learning (Clil) has become a global phenomenon that is now having a profound impact on the way languages such as English are taught in schools.
As language learning moves into subject classrooms, the challenge for language teachers is to adapt their expertise and play [...]
UK: British clubs are prepared to pay vast sums for star players from abroad, but new visa rules that require them to pass a language assessment could jeopardise future deals, reports the Guardian. Under a new points-based visa system, any players who originate from outside the EU will have to apply for a Tier 2 [...]
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