ESL teachers and the TEFL Workers' Union are hoping a series of claims against schools in the UK will lead to more scrutiny of fixed-term employment contracts.

A survey from FELTOM and Deloitte has shown that Malta's student arrivals from January to September this year fell to 15,361 compared to 67,884 in 2019.

Turkish students will be able to acquire long-term student visas for Malta after FELTOM secured a concession to allow their visas to be processed in the country.

ELT schools in Malta are facing a loss of millions of euros due to the coronavirus outbreak, a report has found. But stakeholders in the country fear losses will increase as the situation worsens.

Education agents are assisting students to find English language schools in Ireland and Malta over the UK, as visa issues continue to frustrate agents.

Projects addressing issues such as migration, journalism training and global warming have become recipients of 2019 Global Education Ideas Awards from GENE.

The first six months of 2019 brought a slight decrease in student numbers for the Maltese ELT industry, while student weeks increased.

A potential new policy will make Maltese lessons compulsory in schools and mandate that every educator "is competent enough to teach in Maltese".