Press releases

We are happy to help journalists with questions about English UK and UK ELT. Contact our external relations manager Susan Young on susan.young@englishuk.com.

  • Lockdown restrictions eased across the UK
    30 May 2020

    As lockdown restrictions are eased across the UK, owners and directors of ELT centres will be planning the date and nature of their re-opening for face-to-face teaching. This will not be the same for all.

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  • English UK responds to second reading of the Immigration Bill
    21 May 2020

    English UK has prepared a memorandum and proposed amendment emphasising our key concerns around the Bill, the changes to the immigration rules we would like to see, and requiring the government to commit all future proposals around the rules to expert scrutiny before making changes. We have also indicated that we are willing to appear before the Scrutiny Committee to present our concerns.

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  • English UK continues to lobby for inclusion of ELT sector in business rates relief
    15 May 2020

    We made our case at a meeting of the Education Sector Advisory Group, co-chaired by Graham Stuart MP...

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  • Tourist businesses worth billions may close because they are excluded from Government's rate relief scheme
    1 May 2020

    Trade associations representing thousands of tourist businesses, together with the Local Government Association, have written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer asking him to urgently change civil servants' interpretation of his Coronavirus Business Rates Relief Scheme, launched to support the UK's hospitality and leisure industries.

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