Shoko Doherty, CEO of Celtic English Academy in Cardiff, became the new chair of English UK's Board of Trustees at the 2024 AGM.

We are delighted to welcome five new trustees to our board after one of the biggest elections in English UK's history.

We are delighted so many members joined us in London for our parliamentary reception and our members' conference, both of which were bigger and more popular than ever. 

2023 was UK ELT's best year since the pandemic, our student statistics show.

Student numbers rose to 76% of 2019 levels and student weeks to 71%. Recovery was more evenly distributed than in 2022, with twice as many of our members exceeding their 2019 student weeks – 26% compared with 13%.

Our new manifesto explains how the next UK government can support UK ELT. We have six simple policy recommendations, which would enable our industry to do more for the UK.