Category Archives: educational reform

Reforming English Pre-Service Teacher Education (Part 2)

Posted on 12 August 2026 by Simon Borg

In my previous post, I described how a large-scale review of English language teaching in Iraq led to curriculum reform in Colleges of Education and Basic Education across the country. By 2025, updated curricula had been piloted and early evaluations … Continue reading →

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Reforming English Pre-Service Teacher Education (Part 1)

Posted on 31 July 2026 by Simon Borg

Educational reform is best understood as a process rather than an event, requiring sustained interaction between policy, implementation and professional learning. Since 2021, I have contributed to a collaborative reform project involving the British Council and the Ministries of Higher … Continue reading →

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Planning Teacher CPD – Key Principles

Posted on 13 September 2023 by Simon Borg

This post is linked to yesterday’s webinar on key principles in planning effective CPD for teachers. A recording of the webinar will be available soon on the TeachingEnglish website, but here is the final summary slide with the 10 principles … Continue reading →

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Initial Teacher Education in ELT

Posted on 24 February 2023 by Simon Borg

Back in May I wrote about what matters most when education systems are trying to improve levels of English among learners. I concluded that the qualiity of initial teacher education is vital. Studies of high-performing education systems often refer to … Continue reading →

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