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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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Improving National Levels of English – What Matters Most?

Posted on 17 May 2022 by Simon Borg

Two recent projects I have worked on had the common goal of trying to understand at a national level the status of English learning and the factors that influence it. The two countries involved were Iraq and India – very … Continue reading →

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