Press Clippings

Wired  - , 30 okt 2012

EF Classroom App Ushering in Paperless Education of the Future

There was a time when the most interactive thing about a classroom was the chalkboard. The grating chalkboard eventually gave way to the whiteboard, which has recently given way to...

New York Times  - International, 29 okt 2012

Low English Levels Can Hurt Countries' Progress

Countries with poor English-language skills also have lower levels of trade, innovation and income, according to a report released last week.

The report ranks 54 countries where English is not a native language, with the top five being Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland and Norway. The bottom five were Colombia, Panama, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Libya.

Management Thinking Blog  - , 11 okt 2012

Mind your language (skills)

The Boston Globe  - Boston, 25 sep 2012

New NorthPoint project making a big splash

EF Education First’s new $125 million, 300,000-square-foot headquarters will be situated at the foot of the Zakim Bridge. Construction is to begin Tuesday and be completed by spring of 2014.

 - Japan, 02 jul 2012

Rakuten's English Policy: Just Speak It

When Rakuten Inc. introduced an English-only policy for company communications in May 2010 as part of founder and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s push to globalize the Japanese Web commerce firm, critics questioned the wisdom in forcing staff to communicate with each other in their non-native tongue.

 - International, 21 maj 2012

A Way Up For Women in Business

 - International, 09 maj 2012

Hodges: The UK's Looming Brain Drain

 - China, 04 maj 2012

WSJ "The Cost of Not Doing Business in English"

 - International, 04 maj 2012

Bailey: Language Barriers and Miscommunications are Stifling Growth

 - London, 04 apr 2011

The EF EPI Index is featured on the Monocle Weekly radio broadcast

 - Stockholm, 01 apr 2011

Svenska Dagbladet - Norge slår Sverige i engelska

Svenskarna är sämst i Skandinavien på engelska. Norrmännen däremot är bäst av 44 länder runt om i världen, enligt en undersökning från utbildningsföretaget EF Education First.

 - USA, 30 mar 2011

The Financial Times - China: better English students than India?

When the British Council published a study saying China had more English speakers than India readers with experience of both countries wondered aloud where China was hiding all those Anglophones. Even in Shanghai, with its British colonial past, taxi drivers are about as likely to speak English as they are to obey traffic signs; neither has really caught on.

Now comes another study about how China is drawing neck and neck with India – and eroding the comparative advantage of the sub-continent.

 - New York, 23 jan 2011

The New York Times - Business Schools With a Social Appeal

Business schools can be cutthroat places. After struggling to gain admission to the top schools, students compete for grades and the best work placements. Meanwhile, the schools themselves jostle for position in the various global rankings, competing in order to attract the most able students. But in the never-ending battle for dominance, one London business school has decided to appeal not to potential students’ wallets, but to their consciences.