Scores of candidates for Hong Kong’s university entrance exams have vented their frustrations at Michelle Obama after an excerpt from her memoir was included in a test paper which they deemed difficult, prompting the authorities to appeal for respect when expressing views.Comments left on one post on the former US first lady’s archived Instagram page include...

You’re in a new environment where you don’t know many people, you may not speak Chinese and you may not know where the sightseeing spots are in your city.Students are generally very busy with homework and exam preparation. The fact is, as a foreign teacher in China, you will have much more free time than your students.This article explores some ideas for dea...

Japan seems like one of the most developed countries in Asia. However, you may be surprised that people in Japan don’t really speak English very well, except for some touristy areas such as Kyoto or Tokyo.Some of my friends asked me “why is that?”I have a ten-year-old niece. Maybe because my boyfriend is British, she has been interested in learning English s...

A teacher claims she was left humiliated after being made to apologise to students at a UK private girls' school for calling them girls.Students at the £20,000-a-year school complained and said not everyone in the class identified as female, with one student challenging the woman to acknowledge their pronouns.The philosophy and religious education teache...

A man who says he was assaulted by an Edinburgh school teacher in the 1970s, says he reverted to his childhood self seeing him in a South African court.Neil Douglas, 60, said he burst into tears seeing Iain Wares again, 50 years after he taught at Edinburgh Academy.Wares, 83, is facing two charges of sexual assault at a Cape Town school.He is separately figh...

A man who says he was assaulted by an Edinburgh school teacher in the 1970s, says he reverted to his childhood self seeing him in a South African court.Neil Douglas, 60, said he burst into tears seeing Iain Wares again, 50 years after he taught at Edinburgh Academy.Wares, 83, is facing two charges of sexual assault at a Cape Town school.He is separately figh...

I’ve been teaching in China for nearly six years and in that time I’ve met a great many fellow expat teachers from all over the world.Some are old, some are young and they come from different countries too.But one thing that most of them have in common is this: EFL teachers who continue teaching in China for many years are usually single.Why is this?Are we s...

The issue of requiring an undergraduate degree for English teachers in Vietnam has been a topic of discussion for quite some time. Experts in the education and training working group at the Annual Vietnam Business Forum have argued that this policy may be excluding many qualified teachers who hold recognized teaching certificates but lack a degree in the lan...