Students whose language centres have closed unexpectedly are being placed on new courses for free by English UK staff.

What do the Starship Enterprise, comedian Reginald D. Hunter and Harry Potter's hat have to do with EFL teaching? The 230-plus delegates who attended the 2011 English UK Teachers' Conference, which took place in London on Saturday 12 November, know the answer.

English UK members have instructed lawyers to demand a full retraction and apology for wrongly including them on a list of colleges "banned" from bringing international students into the UK.

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Language schools wrongly identified in the media as being "banned" from teaching international students are being encouraged to take legal action for defamation.