We are now taking bookings for the popular English UK Welfare Officers’ Course (WOCC) which runs from November to April. The WOCC is a must for all experienced and inexperienced Welfare Officers and is the only qualification of its kind designed specifically to serve the needs of welfare officers practicing in the ELT sector.

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In association with English UK North

We are pleased to announce a new addition to this year’s professional development calendar with the inauguration of the English UK Student Experience Conference. The national conference will be held on Saturday, 10th November 2007 at the University of Manchester. The full day event is being run in conjunction with English UK North and is aimed at ELT professionals who have direct responsibility for student accommodation, welfare and the organisation and supervision of social programmes.

Further details will be released shortly and if you would like to be notified of any developments regarding the conference please email: training@englishuk.com to be added to the conference mailing list.

So you think you know something about football and have the stamina to negotiate an intense 38-game premiership season against some of the greatest names in ELT football like the: Ginger Bears, Seanchester City and Villaroos! For your chance to wrestle away the championship from Andy Potton’s Ginger Bears register now and receive £100 million to spend on the finest players that money can buy.

For free entry to the league follow these instructions:
1. Type in url: http://www.premierleague.com/splash/fantasy/fantasy.html
2. Register and pick your team
3. Click on ‘leagues’ and join the EUK Premiership (the code is: 358085-70417)

May the best team win!

The English UK North Academic Conference will be held at Melton College, York on Saturday 13th October. This event is supported by Cambridge ESOL and the cost of attendance is £45 per delegate.

Please download the conference programme and booking form below.

euk_north_academic_conference_2007pv.pdf

English UK strongly supports the Government announcement today requiring accreditation for independent education providers who wish to continue to recruit international students after the introduction of the new points-based system for managing migration, which will include students from early 2009.

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