English UK is delighted to announce the signature of an agreement with Macmillan English Campus, Macmillan’s online blended learning programme. This will allow all its members to benefit from this extensive resource, which is designed to be used as an online complement to face-to-face teaching.

The Macmillan English Campus is the world’s leading online service for blended learning; it comprises more than 3,500 individual exercises and a content management system containing a range of different features, including an automatic mark book, online dictionary and book-marking facilities.

The usual model under which Campus operates means an individual language school has to commit to a minimum number of passwords in order to benefit from the service. This new agreement significantly reduces the number of individual passwords that any single English UK member needs to buy, meaning that medium-sized and smaller schools have the chance to benefit from this blended learning solution in a way that would not previously have been possible.

John Murray, Sales and Marketing Director for Macmillan English Campus said ‘We’re delighted to be working more closely with English UK, and to helping English UK members introduce blended learning solutions to their customers.’

Mark Rendell, Deputy Chief Executive of English UK said ‘We’re always looking to expand the services we offer to our members, and this new agreement shows one of the benefits of being part of a consortium in this way: improving accessibility for individual members.’

The “Website Effectiveness” and “Getting More out of Marketing” training days have been postponed to further notice.

AGM and 2007 Annual seminar 2007, for more information on this event, please click on  link: quite_seminar_2007.pdf

English UK is now accepting papers for elective and plenary sessions at the 2008 ELT Management Conference. This year’s event will be held at the Thistle Hotel in Brighton on 7th and 8th March 2008. The prestigious event is attended by ELT management professionals from all over the UK and is supported by Cambridge ESOL. Sessions should normally include a management focus that reflects current trends and issues, helps update the skills and knowledge of managers, is practical and innovative, has relevance for all sectors and provides examples of best practice. The deadline for applications is 5th November 2007. For more details, please click: call_for_papers_management_conference.pdf

The Consultants-E are very pleased to announce that registration for their online Sept – Dec courses is now open, and that they are offering a 10% discount to all English UK members on the fees for any of the following 4 – 10 week courses:

- E-moderation: 1 – 31 October
- Learn to use Moodle:  1 October – 30 November
- ICT in the Classroom: 1 October  - 16 December
- NEW! Teaching Business English 15 November  - 15 December

See http://www.theconsultants-e.com/courses/ for full details on content and learning outcomes for each course, fees, tutoring, past participant feedback etc. Please also note that the Consultants-E will be offering face-to-face courses as part of this year’s English UK training programme.

See our website for more details: www.englishuk.com/training.