Dramatic Year for EFL Industry

Welcome to the first EL Gazette newsletter of 2007 which has already been a dramatic year for the industry:


- The Russian authorities closed down all British council teaching centres
- Seoul Police busted a TEFL recruitment agency for allegedly issuing fake degrees, organising illegal jobs and selling Crystal meth
- Japanese language school chain Gaba was floated on the stock market
- A US university has set up a campus in Afghanistan

United Kingdom - UK Schools survive 2005

THE LATEST report on the financial performance of the UK’s leading EFL schools is fairly encouraging. The accounts, which cover the period up to the end of 2005, suggest that the negative events of that year including the July terrorist bombings in London did not have too serious an impact on the trading performances of the schools.

Philippines- Philipines vows to boost English skills

The PhilippineS House of Representatives has approved a measure to improve English language proficiency among Filipino students in an effort to stem declining standards.

The move follows a survey from the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines that revealed that 75 per cent of over 400,000 Filipino college graduates have ‘sub-standard English skills’.

Headlines courtesy of www.elgazette.com

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