A news story issued to most national and local media in November 2011 which wrongly claimed that fully-accredited English language centres had been "banned" from bringing international students into the country has been corrected. The Press Association has agreed to clarify the story by sending out a corrected statement to all its media customers.

The ELT Marketing Conference is an important forum for professionals who are involved in the sales and marketing of English language and other courses to international students. In addition to our keynote and plenery speakers, we are pleased to announce that Ms Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman, the Kurdistan Regional Government's High Representative to the UK, will now be joining us to lead a market information session on Kurdistan.

Online registration is now open for StudyWorld London 2012 for invited agents and service providers.

Today, as part of their 'GREAT Britain - You're Invited' marketing programme, VisitBritain launched a free industry toolkit designed to help all UK businesses, however big or small, to leverage the campaign.

Please note that the English UK office will be closed for the holidays from Friday 23 December 2011 and re-open on Tuesday 3 January 2012.