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.
EnglishUSA held its 5th Annual Professional Development Workshop in San Francisco last month - and used the occasion to host a live conference call with SEVP officials to further clarify the sector's understanding of what have been policy "grey areas".
The American Association of Intensive English Language Programs (AAIEP), which represents nearly 300 English schools across the US, unveiled its cool new brand logo last week at the NAFSA conference in Houston...
