Not being exactly politically in tune with the Torygraph, I had no idea such a section existed until someone who writes for it emailed me a couple of days ago. As it’s mixed in with the rest of the Expat Education section, I thought links to the relevant bits might be of interest, especially as some pieces have a comments function that you can use without logging in:
Germany considers scrapping English lessons for primary-aged children because “95 per cent of sixth formers who had primary school English lessons were no better at the language than children who did not.” and “Two thirds of the teachers consider English instruction before the age of 11 “completely redundant.””
Kazakstan, the new frontier for vodka-loving teachers who still want to save a couple of bob now Moscow’s got so expensive that even English Teacher X has fled
Lured by the land of smiles, then lured back home to the land of grumpy commuters by free treatment for VD
Want to travel the world? -try not to get anyone banged up while still in your first country teaching English
TEFL: A world of opportunities even for losers like you (“I lost my job, my girlfriend and my house in the course of a couple of weeks,” he says. “Teaching English abroad and living in a totally alien culture got me back on my feet and I was fortunate to find work in a decent school.”)
TEFLtastic 
I particularly dislike the last one.
LikeLike
Right back to “you become a TEFLer when something or things in the above case go wrong in your life.”
How was Harrogate Adam? I watched a few presentatins on line but could not finish any of them as they were so shite. Tessa Woodward what a nutter.
LikeLike
Ah, it’s good to see that I have a soul mate in Teflisshite! And did you REALLY go to Harrogate, Alex? I don’t believe it!!
Actually, I remember writing a piece entitled something like “Kazakhstan – the new frontier” for the old EFL Gazette almost 15 years ago. Is the frontier there still new?
LikeLike
Not only did Adam go he presented
LikeLike
I don’t believe it! I just DON’T BELIEVE IT!!
LikeLike
I remember seeing an ex-pat section in the DT (in print), but that’s a nifty distinction– expat vs. expat in education. That ought to help the potential advertisers know how to alter their advertising campaigns. Ads for Scottish salmon baskets, Swiss watches, and yachts will go to one, ads to ‘meet Japanese girls’ will go to the other. The power of the Internet, can you feel it?
LikeLike
BTW I added the AC EFL.Net address to my blog’s list of links. If my blogs manage to crack the top 500,000 sites on the web, you may have a surge of visitors linking in–3-4 each day. Ahh the power of the web, can you feel it?
LikeLike