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Category Archives: British Council
British Council versus Pixar to go to appeal
The British Council’s attempts to sue Pixar for up to 545 million pounds for stealing the storyline to all three Toy Story films from the LearnEnglishKids song “Old Scruffy Teddy” will go on to the High Court next month. In reply … Continue reading
British Council to be scrapped?
“The BBC World Service, the British Council and the Environment Agency are among the 94 publicly funded bodies whose fate has yet to be decided.” from Quango Cuts in the Torygraph It wouldn’t seem to make sense to close all … Continue reading
Eikaiwa continues to shrink
David English House in Hiroshima, a well respected school run by author and all round booster of professionalism in Nippon David Paul, closed for business on 1 September leaving him personally bankrupt. Sounds like they managed the process well, though, according … Continue reading
The Best of Chasing TEFL Ladies
No, not the history of trying to find a Liz to my John Soars in the teachers’ rooms of the world… One of the reasons my last post was even more untopical than usual was that when I went to … Continue reading
A typical TEFL biography (and one big difference)
The typical bit: “I did not know what I wanted to do but I did know what I did not want to do. I did not want to work in the UK. ” and the untypical bit: “A panel of misguided … Continue reading
What was the biggest change in TEFL in the Noughties?
If you’d asked me in 1999, I probably would’ve predicted that Task Based Learning was going to take over the TEFL world, for better or worse. What a damp squib that turned out to be, with apparently even Cutting Edge … Continue reading
Posted in British Council, Dogme, Electronic dictionaries, ELT publishing, Humanistic language teaching, IELTS, Interactive whiteboard, International House, Pilgrims, Teaching English in Japan, Teaching English in Thailand, teaching online, Technology, TEFL blogs, TEFL in the UK, Twitter, Wall Street
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A big change at the BC
British Council Chennai only employs local teachers. I wouldn’t be surprised if it has been imposed on them by visa restrictions, but if it works I can see them trying to spread the idea elsewhere. A welcome change? Likely to … Continue reading
Proof of a TEFL oligarchy??
I’d always scoffed at such conspiracy theories before, but I could have sworn that there were more than this many publishers of EFL materials in the UK. Maybe Delta Publishing etc have all been taken over by Saudi oil princes like Premiership … Continue reading
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The best of Teaching English Guest Writer Articles
Another example of how blogging can be a good thing even if nobody reads, in this case making me read something worthwhile that I just hadn’t quite found time for month after month after month… Surprising myself slightly, my top … Continue reading
How to really improve the standard of TEFL courses
The Guardian reports (uncritically, as ever when it comes to TEFL) on the setting up of yet another organisation meant to, apparently, boost the standards of TEFL in the UK- this one called The Association for the Promotion of Quality … Continue reading
