EnglishUSA has announced a new partnership with Agency Management System, the industry’s first study abroad cloud platform.

EnglishUSA will expand its membership to include pathway programs and individuals, as it continues to support the US English language sector.

EnglishUSA is launching a new online community called EnglishUSA Engage, which will allow members to connect, learn and share from an online platform.

Intensive English Language providers in the US saw another year of declining enrolments in 2018, but the downward trend has started to “level”, new IIE figures have revealed.

Difficult trading conditions in the last 12 months have contributed to a number of intensive English program closures and a dip in EnglishUSA membership re-enrolment figures.

English Australia and English USA, the representative bodies for the English language teaching sectors in each country, have both appointed new executive leaders. Cheryl Delk Le-Good and Brett Blacker spoke with The PIE News about their new roles.

Last week's sixth annual EnglishUSA Professional Development Conference was the biggest of its kind with attendance up by almost a third on last year. One hundred seventy five delegates attended the event in San Francisco denoting the organisation's first meeting since last year's deadline for all IEPs to be accredited.

The recent IEP Stakeholders Conference revealed that the rush to meet the accreditation deadline of December 15 has meant significant workload for quality assurance agencies and IEPs themselves. The process has been largely positive, and SEVP is engaging with the sector on further regulatory reform.