Season's Greetings from English UK! We wish you all the best for 2010.

N.B. The English UK office will be closed for the holidays from Wednesday 23 December 2009 until Monday 4 January 2010.

IEFT is keen to welcome members of English UK to their Spring 2010 IEFT Student Recruitment Exhibitions in a special English UK Village. 

This joint Study UK/English UK mission to Sri Lanka, organised in partnership with UK Trade & Investment, follows a scoping visit that was undertaken to the market by English UK in November 2008 (please click here to download the scoping visit report).

Anticipated number of participants – 6-10

Dates – Tuesday 9 – Wednesday 10 February 2010

ExpoBelta 2010 will take place in São Paulo, on 20 - 21 March 2010, at the Frei Caneca Convention Center. 10,000 visitors are expected.

As in previous years, ExpoBelta 2010 has the support of: British Council / Education UK, British Consulate, US Department of Commerce / US Commercial Service, Education USA, Australian Education International, Australian Consulate General / Austrade, ALPHE Workshops, Canadian Consulate, CampusFrance, Atout France, Tourspain Sao Paulo, Nuffic – Netherlands Organisation for International Cooperation in Higher Education, Education New Zealand, New Zealand Consulate, EduSA – Education South Africa, South Africa Consulate, Enterprise Ireland, Irish Institute, ICEF - International Consultants for Education and Fairs and FAUBAI – Forum of Brazilian University Offices for International Relations.

Anglo Latino Education Partnership is planning on running a Study English UK Fair in February 2010 in Mexico City. This Fair will be amply publicised in the local press and through targeted email shots and will provide a platform for English UK members to promote their centres in and around Mexico City, both face to face with Mexican students and families and through agents on the ground, who will be invited to the B2B element of the Expo.

This is a message from Mandy Deng, Education Marketing Office, British Council China (mandy.deng@britishcouncil.org.cn)

Thank you for your continuous support to the British Council China’s efforts to promote UK ELT sector in China, especially to our Summer School Programme which has been running successfully for nine years. With the market growing mature and more UK centres developing their alternative promotional channels in China, the British Council China plans not to organise our own summer school programme in 2009/10.

As you may be aware, the government plans to hold a major review of the Points Based System for Visas in December. Many of the proposals could have a significant and detrimental effect on education providers across all sectors. An English UK member has created an e-petition, which is available for all to sign to demonstrate support for the sector.

The ELPG welcomes you to join the second staging of the ELT Marketing Conference on Thursday, 21st January 2010.

New computer-based measure of English language ability available to test takers

Pearson, one of the worldwide global leaders in technology and assessment for education, has launched Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic), the company’s new computer-based academic test of English language proficiency. To celebrate the launch, Pearson are offering English UK member centres the chance to win some fantastic prizes. Students also have the chance to win a PTE Academic test.