English with Confidence campaign

English with Confidence is our new international-facing campaign to support market recovery for the UK's English language teaching sector.

The campaign will inform and reassure our international partners and stakeholders, giving them the information they need to support the return of international students.  

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Our Covid-19 position paper calls on the government to help kickstart UK ELT

We have updated our Covid-19 position paper post Budget 2021. We continue to call on the government to help kickstart UK ELT with: targeted business support; a supportive immigration system; and marketing on a national scale.

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Becoming antiracist: promoting a fairer, more inclusive and equitable UK ELT sector

English UK's antiracism plan, published in July 2021, is part of our commitment to creating a fairer, safer and better industry for everyone.

The plan outlines our antiracist commitment, approach, vision and strategic aims. 

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New Europe market report helps plan for recovery

Our new research into the future of Europe as an ELT market has been made exclusively available to members and centres accredited by the British Council.

The research is the latest in our long-running market report series funded in partnership with the British Council and produced by insight partners BONARD.

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StudyWorld: promoting UK education to the world

English UK's largest business-to-business event, StudyWorld promotes UK education to study abroad agents and international partners from around the world. Upcoming events:

> StudyWorld autumn, 21-22 Sept 2021
> StudyWorld winter, 25-27 Jan 2022
> StudyWorld spring, 22-24 Mar 2022

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Roadmap to market recovery launched

We have launched a roadmap for how UK ELT can rebuild lost trade after Covid-19. Rebuilding the international market for UK English language teaching: a roadmap to recovery after Covid-19 was shared with English UK members and stakeholders shortly before the nation went into lockdown. 

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Covid-19 crisis slashes UK ELT revenue in 2020 by £590m

Our new Covid-19 impact report, published in March 2021, estimates that English UK member centres lost £590m in gross revenue in 2020.

91% of UK ELT jobs were affected, with 54% of the workforce released and an additional 18% of staff furloughed.

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