English language schools should suspend recruitment, Department says
Posted in Fees, access and admissions, Governance and administration on August 28th, 2020 by steve
“English language schools should suspend the recruitment of international students until 2021, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has recommended. In a three-page letter sent to language school representative groups as part of talks regarding the sector’s reopening, the Department said it would welcome ‘a voluntary moratorium’ which would put a stop to the enrolling of new international students to English language schools in Ireland …” (more)
[Jessica Doyle, Irish Times, 28 August]
“It was a bad idea to announce a penultimate post on August 9th. There is no way that I can draw a line under the Strange Land blog until 2020-21 has been launched, bang on the equinox. Re-entry activity began in earnest about two weeks ago for me and it’s been fast and furious. There is absolutely nothing routine about it …” (
