Owners of the English Studio and travel agency USIT Ireland have appointed liquidators following a "tsunami of effects" related to the coronavirus pandemic.

France has become the latest European country to introduce travel restrictions after banning school trips abroad and to areas of France with a high number of Coronavirus cases.

A specially designed program will see 400 Algerian PhD students study at the University of Limerick during the four years of the project – a contract estimated to be worth up to €20m.

The Irish Council for International Students has released a pre-election manifesto, warning that action must be taken to sustain Ireland’s popularity as a study destination.

One key consideration is that issuers are going to be coming to terms with the tussle between who owns the actual record of the learner

Major European coding institution Wild Code School is opening a school in Dublin, Ireland, with plans to expand to other parts of the country at a later date.

Reflecting on 2019, a number of headlines stick out – from acquisition shakeups across the ESL industry to visa issues stretching over various destination countries. Here are some of the stories which have grabbed our attention, and yours, over the last 12 months.

The Irish government has established a Joint Labour Committee to address many employment-related issues in the ELT sector.