Study travel booking platform, Edvisor, launches
Developed by a team in Vancouver, a platform inspired by standardised software in the travel industry has been launched to connect language schools with their agent partners worldwide.
Developed by a team in Vancouver, a platform inspired by standardised software in the travel industry has been launched to connect language schools with their agent partners worldwide.
CVC Intercâmbio will open student-facing offices to promote language programmes, youth travel, academic year abroad, junior packages and other related products.
Pro Linguis, one of Switzerland’s oldest and largest education agencies which went into liquidation last month, is being acquired by StudyLingua AG, another Swiss language travel agency based in St Gallen.
A concern over education agencies selling language school courses "based on what makes us the same, not what makes us different", was a standpoint pitched against a process of standardisation in the Big Debate at the IALC Workshop last week in Leeds and York.
Research produced for the International Association of Language Centres has estimated the size of the annual study travel market for foreign language learning to be 2.28 million language students.
After a tough summer of economic drops in key student markets and heavy discounting, discussions at the ICEF Berlin workshop this month were dominated by serious concerns from ELT operators about the next 12 months.
The BETA Parliamentary Reception this week saw stakeholders rally members to continue to work towards growing and unifying the sector, citing its commercial output and the moral dimension of building British values.