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News Archive January 2009

IT seen as “cost cutting”

Businesses now view technology as "cost cutting rather than just a cost in itself", it has been suggested.During financial downturns in the nineties and early noughties, information techn…

Category: Teaching and Learning
Posted 22 Jan 2009

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TEFL can make a “positive impact”

Teaching English abroad as a foreign language can make a "positive impact" on people’s lives, it has been suggested.In some schools in Costa Rica, language lessons are part of the curricu…

Category: TEFL Industry
Posted 21 Jan 2009

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“Personalisation” important in technology

Education technology in the future will concentrate on "increasing personalisation", an industry expert has suggested.Over the next few years it will not be about utilising lots more gadg…

Category: Teaching and Learning
Posted 21 Jan 2009

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100,000 travellers ‘could be stranded’

Up to 100,000 travellers may find themselves stranded if they do not have the proper insurance, it has been suggested.Around 20 million Brits make holiday arrangements which are not fully covered a…

Category: General Travel
Posted 21 Jan 2009

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TEFL teacher dies

Poet and TEFL teacher Mick Leigh has died at the age of 73, it has been reported.At the age of 70-years-young, Mr Leigh qualified to teach English as a Foreign Language and went all around the worl…

Category: TEFL Industry
Posted 21 Jan 2009

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KTO to exhibit at travel show

The Korea Tourism Organisation (KTO) will be exhibiting at the Times’ Destinations Show, it was announced today.It could be of interest to people who are going away to teach English in North or Sou…

Category: General Travel, Asia
Posted 21 Jan 2009

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Now ‘could be the ideal time to emigrate’

Now might be the ideal opportunity to escape the doom and gloom of Britain and move abroad to try something new, it has been suggested.Although the current exchange rates mean it is more expensive …

Category: Moving Abroad, Living Abroad
Posted 21 Jan 2009

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Technology adds “value” to lessons

Bringing technology into the classroom adds "value", it has been claimed.Although a lot of schools are making progress with the latest gadgets, there are some who are still "daunted&…

Category: Teaching and Learning
Posted 20 Jan 2009

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Obama ‘helps people in Japan learn English’

Dialogues from the latest United States president are helping some Japanese natives learn the English language, it has been reported.A book entitled The Speeches of Barack Obama has sold over 400,0…

Category: TEFL Industry, Teaching and Learning
Posted 20 Jan 2009

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People could turn their “setback into an opportunity”

Facing redundancy or graduating when the job market is poor can be disheartening but many are turning this "setback into an opportunity", it has been claimed.Nick Trend writing for the Gu…

Category: TEFL Industry, Teaching and Learning, Moving Abroad
Posted 20 Jan 2009

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