Join Carole Anne Robinson for an interactive webinar based on her recent workshop at IATEFL in Liverpool Tuesday 21st May!
Carole will be focussing on ways to help us become more aware ofRead more...
Eaquals Accredited Members The British School FVG in Trieste and NILE took advantage of the annual Eaquals conference in Madrid to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to work together on projects including teacher development, academic management, and research. The collaboration arose after discussions at Eaquals events over the past three years, and a mutual commitment to excellenceRead more...
We are delighted to announce that Power-Up: Drama Games in Language Teaching has won the prestigious English Speaking Union Language Award for 'Best Resource for Teachers' 2018!
The ESU's biennial English Language Awards celebrate and reward the best in innovation and good practice in ELT, and the award ceremony took place in London on Tuesday 20 November.
The award-winning 3-week NILE Online course is written and taught by David Farmer of Drama Resource, and after collecting the award he finds time toRead more...
As usual, NILE staff will travel to meet old and new colleagues around the world this spring. Here's a quick round-up of where to find us over the coming months.
Thom Kiddle, Dave Allan and Carole RobinsonRead more...
Read Maria Heron's thoughts on IATEFL 2018 in Brighton - not only CPD as we know it.
Every year I look forward to what I enjoy most about IATEFL: talking to friends and colleagues from different corners of the world, attending presentations, having intimate meals with colleagues who I value and respect and going home with interesting thoughts and ideas. However, this year IATEFL was considerably more than that as I had the privilege to attend three very moving and thought provoking sessions.Read more...
The busy summer period was hardly over before we embarked on the conference season.
We have had a strong presence in South America this autumn, with Simon Smith, MA Programme Leader, at the Anglo Conference in Uruguay, Jamie Keddie presented for us and Macmillan at BrELT on the Road and in Uruguay, Laura Renart was the FAAPI conference in Argentina and Dave Allan did a tour of Brazil with Macmillan in October. As he came back, Maria HeronRead more...
NILE's MA in Professional Development for Langauge Education (MAPDLE) graduation ceremony was held on Monday 6th November at the Chichester Festival Theatre. We had a large cohort graduating this year, and we are proud to announce that out of 31 candidates, 7 graduated withRead more...
In the first ever joint ETAS -NILE webinar, Susan Hillyard presents Drama as a Bridge to Literacy: how drama acts as the connection between reading, writing, listening, speaking and drama.
This presentation explores drama, a polysemic discipline, as both a literacy itself and an effective resource for the teaching of multiple literacies. It argues that drama Read more...
NILE is accredited by the British Council for the teaching of English and by Eaquals (Evaluation and Accreditation of Quality on Language Education). We have consistently scored highly in inspections by both organisations, and at our last inspection (2015), the inspectors noted strengths in all but one category, rating us the highest ranking institution of our kind.
We are pleased to say that in the latest analysis of the British Council inspection reports by EL Gazette, The ELT industry magazine (Aug/Sept 2017), NILE further strengthened its reputation for quality by scoring an “astonishing”Read more...
The NILE-APIBA scholarship winner is Carlos Reynoso!
Earlier this year, when announcing the next face-to-face module of NILE’s MA programme at AEXALEVI in Buenos Aires, NILE and APIBA got together to offer one APIBA member a scholarship to the Materials Development in Language Teaching, part of NILE’s MA in Professional Development for Language Education. The applications have been submitted and evaluated, and we are delighted to award Carlos Reynoso a place on the programme!
The judges’ expect Carlos’ research in designingRead more...
