"If students are not happy with their accommodation, they tend not be happy overall. It's really important to get it right." Dr Diane Phillips explains how at the English UK Student Experience Conference 2016...

Risa Kitano is 31 and comes from Tokyo, where she is a well-known pop singer.

"I chose Torquay because I thought there would not be any Japanese people here so I would be able to concentrate on my English"

As the English language teaching market gets more competitive, it's crucial for language centres to get good feedback on social networking sites, which is why English UK is re-running its very successful Student Experience conference this month.

Preparing students for a world where they are most likely to speak English with other non-native speakers, supporting learning difficulties and classroom research were just a few of the subjects tackled at a packed English UK Teachers' Conference this year.

A teacher who began her career in Russian schools has won the third English UK/ Cambridge English Language Assessment Action Research scheme award.