The English UK Fair, Athens, the first of our 2012 Fairs, has officially sold out and there are now only waiting list spots available. You can still register for Panama, Dead Sea Jordan and Macau - with places filling up fast, early booking is recommended.

We are delighted to announce that our new Deputy Chief Executive for Professional Services, Huan Japes, will be joining us in February, leading English UK's work on quality assurance and professional development.

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Taking place on the 2 and 3 March at St Anne's College, Oxford, the English UK ELT Management Conference is a prestigious and important event on the ELT calendar and is the UK's leading event for practising ELT managers.

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.