English UK and representatives from Northern Ireland's language schools met with Annette Palmer, Acting Director of Tertiary Education, to discuss strategies for growing the English language teaching industry in Northern Ireland. 

Read our recap on the Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) scheme and eVisas that affect what students need to do before they travel to the UK.  

She waved the Americans off to D-Day in 1944, founded her pioneering ELT school in 1978 and was wished a happy 100^th birthday in Parliament by her local MP. 

The development of the Chinese market for UK providers was discussed at a morning event hosted by New Oriental, the country's largest provider of private educational services. 

The third Partnered Remote Language Improvement project – PRELIM3 – consisted of 25 partnerships between accredited UK English language teaching institutions (UKIs) and English Teacher Associations (ETAs) outside the UK.