The next episode of the British Council's evening seminar series will take place at Spring Gardens on 10th November. George Pickering will inspire and motivate leaders and managers in language schools and institutions to face these challenging times. 

English UK is pleased to announce that following its success last year the special three for two offer on training days is being repeated for the 2009-2010 academic year and will run until the end of January 2010.

For further information about this offer please click here

The São Paulo Fair was held at the Sofitel Jequitimar Guarujá from Tuesday 20 to Friday 23 October 2009 and brought together 32 English UK member centres and 39 study abroad agents and educational consultants from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela. The workshop was organised by the English Language Promotions Group (ELPG), which comprises the British Council, English UK, UK Trade & Investment and VisitBritain.

The Autumn Inward Mission, which was run in association with English UK Central, took place from Monday 5 to Friday 9 October, 2009. English UK welcomed 19 agents from Saudi Arabia, Libya, Syria, Oman, Bahrain, Iran, Turkey, Armenia and Georgia.

English UK is offering the opportunity for professionals with expertise in marketing to international students to speak at the second edition of the prestigious ELT Marketing Conference in London on Thursday 21^st January 2010.

Ten very eventful years were celebrated by English UK at a special event last week. The reception and dinner was officially held to mark the decade in which Tony Millns has been chief executive of the organisation.

English UK has recently improved its links in Kazakhstan after joining an official ministerial visit to the country.

In line with the launch of the sponsorship management system for Tier 4 of the points-based system on 5 October 2009, the UK Border Agency has announced new policy for Tier 4 sponsors and would-be students.

Around 40 teenagers affected by the Italian earthquake disaster enjoyed free English lessons this summer thanks to English UK member schools.