Taking place on 6 February at Thistle Marble Arch Hotel in London, the English UK Marketing Conference is the only marketing conference aimed specifically at the English language sector in the UK. It is a great CPD and networking opportunity for all professionals that are promoting, marketing and selling English language courses to study abroad agents and international students.

Join BMI and English UK for a free online webinar where you will learn about the latest recruitment trends in the Latin American ESL market and find out how your institution can be apart of official English UK agent workshops and recruitment fairs in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Perú and México in spring 2015.

Judith Watkins, an EFL teacher from Sheffield College, is the overall winner of our first Action Research award.

Silvana Richardson, who will be holding the closing plenary at the English UK Teachers' Conference next month, is a woman on a mission: she wants to help EL teachers get CPD which really makes a difference to their skills.

Jim Scrivener, who is providing the opening plenary for the English UK Teachers' Conference 2014, has observed a lot of English language lessons over the past few years - and what he's seen has led him to promote a rather different way of doing things.