EducationState doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry about Ed Balls-Up’s new money-wasting, bureaucratic-ridden, job-for-the-boys initiative described below:

“Over 2,000 teachers and trainers have registered as members of the Institute for Learning (IfL) since its new website and online registration facility went live on Saturday 1 September 2007, increasing the professional body’s membership to nearly 5,000.
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Should knowledge be graded to fit the learner? From pre-school reading books to advanced English textbooks, there exists an enormous selection of material that is designed to avoid scaring students while at the same time allow them to progress. Are such materials helpful, however? Or has this need simply been created by marketing teams to […]

ESOL practitioners will know that use of a first language in class is often frowned upon. It is said that it uses up valuable practice time and also upsets any fluent rhythm generated in speaking activities. But is this really the case? As far as we know there hasn’t been any definitive research in this […]

We at EducationState would like to celebrate the achievement of the ESOL experiment as it goes into decline, replaced by EFL.

Like the end of the Beatles, the death knell has been sounded and something that we all knew was inevitable has come to pass. No-more will teachers be able to make decisions based solely on […]