The LTM (Language Travel Magazine) star awards as voted for by the general public and industry peers  has voted English UK as their Language Association of the Year.

A message from David Pauley (from STA Travel) for Centres offering ISIC.

The International Student Identity Card (ISIC) starts afresh on Sept 1st
-          Valid from Sept 1st to Dec 31st 2008
-          There is a new mail-order application form
-          Costs £9 (previously £7).
-          Includes new benefits (with value beyond the regular student price) from Fitness First, City Sightseeing bus tours, Vue cinemas, music downloads and several others.

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The new HMO licence came into force on 6 April 2006. Under the new rules, a house is considered as being an HMO, therefore requiring a licence, when amongst other criteria the landlord is not resident and/ or the house has been converted and let out to 3 or more tenants who form 2 or more households.

From the above definition, homestay families should automatically be exempt, however in some cases, local councils have classed homestays as HMOs.

To counter this decision, it is important for homestays to demonstrate that they are not renting the rooms to students, and that the students form part of the family’s household. Homestays can also show that the money being paid to them by centres is not a market rent, and in effect only covers the provision of agreed services to the students.

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.