The StudyTravel Star Awards is an 'Oscars' ceremony for the study travel industry, where businesses nominate and vote for their peers.  We are thrilled to see so many English UK members and partner agencies nominated for awards.

Do you think the Edinburgh International Festival does not quite meet your needs? Why not visit the Edinburgh Fringe Festival instead ?

As well as at the festival's celebratory attitude to innovation and life-affirming sprit, there are more than thousand reasons to become addicted to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Offering English with golf to juniors is pretty unusual, and even more so when the school has built its own nine-hole golf course.

"Basically we're a language school that does sport and music very well," says director Bram Van Asselt, who began the business with Olympic gold medal hockey player Steve Batchelor.

In this week's news written for English language students: Harry Potter returns, a famous painting of Queen Elizabeth I bought for the UK, Britain's third-time Tour de France winner and plastic bags disapear. 

Every week, we summarise the UK news to help you understand what is happening in Britain, and what people are talking about.

What's your favourite play by William Shakespeare? Romeo and Juliet? Macbeth? Hamlet? A Midsummer Night's Dream? Would you like to read excerpts of it aloud to an international audience?

That's what some students at language centres here in the UK had the chance to do.