On 24 March the Home Office announced provisions for international students who are unable to leave the UK.

Watch again: Covid-19: online teaching with a long-term mindset with Dan Thompson

Anita Wynne of Beststart HR, who has experience of particulars of UK-ELT centers, gives an overview of the Coronavirus Job Retention scheme, and answers questions from attendees on this and other HR matters. 

Anita Wynne of BestStart HR ran an open forum to answer your HR-related questions on Friday 27 March. The questions were mostly Covid-19 related, with a few other staff-related headaches.

A short live online session exploring what we are doing and what is possible via Zoom to help the ELT sector respond to the Covid-19 crisis.

To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our community, we continue to review our planned events and make the appropriate arrangements to follow expert guidance and reduce risk while delivering services as far as possible.

English UK is strongly recommending that all UK English language teaching centres should close in line with publicly funded education institutions.

The Coronovirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), announced in the government's Budget 2020 on Wednesday 11 March, provides a potential source of loan funding (plus some other financing options) that English UK members may wish to consider

A statement from the chairs of the Accreditation UK Board and manager of Accreditation UK

In this webinar we look at how you can continue to support and teach learners through both synchronous (with the teacher) and asynchronous (independent student-led) online learning, while also exploring how to adapt the kind of content you already use for online learning. 

Our regular update and Q&A sessions are a place for members to ask questions to English UK senior managers about your Covid-19 concerns. 

In such a rapidly moving crisis, we have two professionals with decades of experience in ELT and finance sectors to answer member concerns and questions about how best to act during this crisis.

Covid-19 is devastating our industry. English UK public affairs team is focusing on getting the government to understand our unique situation and supporting members in the difficult decisions they have to make in this time.

This webinar on Wednesday 18 March will cover the basics aspects of online delivery, from planning your classes to mastering the technology required.

This webinar's focus is on staff wellbeing – what can be done to recognise and limit the negative mental wellbeing effects of the pressure and uncertainty of the current situation for managers and staff in a language centre.

The Tempus Public Foundation has announced that the commencement of the Foreign Language Learning Programme will be postponed until 2021 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Covid-19 outbreak is placing the international students in our care under increased stress. Join this webinar to better look after students in your care.

Join our free webinar offering practical advice to institutions who are considering online delivery as part of contingency planning.

In addition to practical measures, it is vitally important to also consider the psychological impact and potential mental health risk the current situation could cause international students, mitigating this wherever possible.

Expert advice from positive psychologist and coach Ruth Hughes...

We are delighted to announce that author, English language expert, grammarian and multi-award winning David Crystal will close our 2021 ELT Conference with a talk on 'What's new in the English language?'