Please note that our office will be closed for the holidays from Friday 24 December 2010 until Tuesday 4 January 2011.

After many years of trial and error, Rod Sloane has finally come up with successful strategies for making marketing more systematic and successful. Rod is an authorised Duct Tape Marketing coach and will be speaking at the English UK Marketing Conference on 27^th January 2011. Here are Rod's seven handy steps for small business marketing success:

It was announced today that Mike Southon, Financial Times correspondent and otherwise known as The Beermat Entrepreneur, will be delivering the closing plenary at the English UK Marketing Conference on 27 January 2011.

English UK today welcomed an announcement by the UK Border Agency that from 10 January 2010, the Student Visitor Visa will be valid for a maximum of 11 months for English language courses only.

The UK Government has today launched a public consultation on reform of Tier 4 of the Points Based System - the student entry route to the UK.

The English UK Fair, Singapore 2011 will take place at Shangri-La's Rasa Sentosa Resort from Tuesday 15 to Friday 18 November 2011. The event is organised by English UK in partnership with the British Council, UK Trade & Investment and VisitBritain.

The fair will bring together accredited UK English language centres and study abroad agents in a luxurious beachfront resort overlooking the South China Sea.

Participation is limited to just 70 organisations (30 educators and 40 agencies) and is only open to English UK member centres and selected top quality agents from the Asia Pacific region.