Where are we heading? Revisited....

Back in April 2007, I was asked to give a workshop and a session at the APPI conference in Lisbon about the situation in Europe regarding the teaching of English.

I spent a good month preparing the session because I wanted the information I was sharing to be as accurate and up to date as possible.

A lot of work, believe me, but as so often happens, I've found that the information that I discovered has come to be so useful since then.  Facts like the percentage of teachers in Europe who were set to retire in the following 10 years (opening the doors to new teachers and maybe the chance to make changes in a school).  I know one school locally that is doing just that.  They wanted to introduce a bilingual project and teach subjects through English.  As teachers retire, the new staff member they take on has a good level of English.  If only this kind of forward planning could take place more often ..... .

Which brings me to what caused me to write today's post.  The school year is kicking off.  The number of emails I'm receiving every day has grown tremendously and suddenly.  I was looking through some of them and clicked on the links in the TeachingEnglish newsletter.

One of the links took me to the

I remember drawing on the information in the previous survey when I prepared my APPI presentation.

I think it will make interesting reading for many of us.  Just added it to my 'to do' list for today!

(Now I can cross off 'Write a blog post' from my list!  Done!!!)