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In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, Edward Hult, the Chief Executive for EF language school’s North American operations wrote an open letter outlining the company’s approach to matters of racial…

On August 4, 2020 an explosion at the Beirut port, in Lebanon, devastated the capital city. As of today, the death toll has reached 137 with more than 6,000 injured, 60 missing, and about 300,000 people who have lost their…

    Staff at EF language school in England and Ireland are facing mass redundancies. The company is only offering the statutory minimum, meaning the large percentage of staff with less than two years of service will get nothing. EF…

The issue of unsafe temperatures in prison cells is raised every summer by people inside prisons and by their partners and families. It is inhumane to hold people in these conditions and should be addressed with urgency by the Ministry of Justice.

[Photo Source: CDC Global – License: CC BY 2.0]   While matters of health and safety have always been prominent in factories or hospitals, the coronavirus has meant those of us who work in classrooms or offices are having to…

  The government have announced changes to the furlough scheme that include a change to what your employer has to pay as well as the option to furlough workers on a part-time basis. We at the union have dug into…

Introduction by Sulaiman A. Jenkins   Where effective language teaching should be the main concern for companies and organizations hiring English teachers, native speakerism continues to be a major stain on the industry. It is the idea that good teachers…

The education sector has been central to the Government’s strategy for lifting lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools being closed and many grandparents being in the ‘vulnerable’ category means that whether their industry was closed or not, many parents have…

The story behind a mystery marble found in West Wales, and of the man behind it.