insights
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Get ready for GESS Dubai 2022
This November sees the Oriel Square team visiting GESS Dubai in what has become an annual trip. Oriel Square director, Sam Derby, shares his pick of the talks and top tips for GESS Dubai 2022.
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Educational Publishing: From the outside in
How different is publishing to other professions, and what can we learn from those who have come into it via other industries or alternative routes?
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Internship diary: How much can you learn in two months?
Summer intern Maddy reflects on the skills she’s developed and the challenges she’s taken on in her second month at Oriel Square.
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Internship diary: First impressions of Oriel Square and educational publishing
Summer intern Maddy reflects on her first month at Oriel Square.
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App-lied learning: how effective are language learning apps?
Commissioning Editor Mairi reflects on the pros and cons of language learning apps.
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5 challenges and solutions for ELT publishers
With a wide variety of local contexts, increasing exam pressures, and a patchwork of British, American and other varieties of English being delivered, producing quality ELT resources poses plenty of challenges. Frances Amrani looks at how these challenges can be met by ELT publishers.
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The big picture: ELT in the MENA region
With mixed-ability classes and a patchwork of British, American and other varieties of English being delivered, teaching ELT in the primary classroom poses plenty of challenges. Not to mention the wide variety of contexts across the MENA region.
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CfEY interview part 2: The future of education and technology
In part two of this interview, Oriel Square Director, Sam Derby, sat down with Alix Robertson and Loic Menzies to ask what they see in the future of EdTech.
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CfEY interview part 1: Looking back to look forward
In part one of this interview, Oriel Square Director, Sam Derby, sat down with Alix Robertson and Loic Menzies at the Centre for Education and Youth to find out what they have learnt about education and technology in the past 12 months.
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Online Tutoring: How technology is allowing pupils to keep learning
Action Tutoring Programme Coordinator, Lily La, shares how online tutoring has been integrated into the charity’s long-term operations, and how it has supported the disadvantaged pupils they work with to learn from home.
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Teacher training: Putting the past behind us
Whatever training route is chosen, it needs trainees. A lack of graduates willing to become teachers has posed a threat to children’s education over the past few years and has become an important issue for the school sector. John Howson looks at teacher training, supply and retention in a post-Covid world.*
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What’s the purpose of school?
School closures and the widespread need for homeschooling brought about a newfound appreciation for the people who do the job day in, day out. But did it change parents’ ideas about why children should go to school? Parent Ping has been asking just that.