Japan will open a National Information Centre in order to collate data on the academic credentials of institutions and students, in English, for the use of overseas university admissions staff.

A Japanese great-grandmother has set out to prove that it is never too late to learn a language as she bids to conquer English before the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.

After an unprecedented 13.6% rise in ELT student numbers in Malta in 2017, latest figures have shown that the country's sector success somewhat flatlined in 2018 with a 0.1% decrease on the previous total.

British Study Centres will open its first school in an English-speaking country location outside the UK, as it announced a new school, opening in 2019.

Bayswater Education will venture into the English Language junior summer school market with courses on three university campuses as well as a Central London homestay program set to launch in 2019.

Hong Kong based international education management company Full Circle Education Group has acquired English language school Studio Language Courses Cambridge.

Language in London, part of the Language in Group in the UK and Ireland, has closed suddenly, leaving 40 students affected who will be supported via English UK.

High and junior high school English language teachers in Tokyo will be required to study a TESOL abroad, in a bid by the Tokyo Board of Education to raise the standard of English teaching in schools. Teachers will spend three months in an English-speaking country, living in a homestay.