EFA’s Covid-19 Response EFA’s staff team met online via Zoom on Friday 13th to discuss a new strategy in response to Covid19. This followed a week of 1-1 and small group discussions. All staff participated. We agreed that due to Covid 19 our ‘problem’ has intensified. Problem: […]
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UPDATE (18 March 2020): EFA has now paused classes. We are experimenting with teaching via Zoom, Skype and Whatsapp. If any educactors want to share notes, that’d be great. We have also started calling round all our students to check in with them, ask if they need anything. We’ve been […]
EFA are recruiting a new teacher-organiser to join our amazing team to deliver ESOL classes and take action alongside ESOL students on issues that matter to them. The classes will be in Lambeth and Southwark. Please read the job description for more information. Deadline: 16th December 2019
From this Autumn, EFA London is involved in an exciting new project with three partners from Italy, France and Hungary. The project aims to develop positive narratives around immigration, to counter the anti-migrant rhetoric that is on the rise across our national contexts. “Stories have been used to dispossess and […]
For the past two years EFA has been involved in a research project with language teaching organisations from Denmark, Belgium, Germany and Austria. We’ve been asking ‘how can volunteers best help with refugee language learning?’ How can volunteers best help in the classroom, alongside paid teachers, outside formal education and […]
It was encouraging to see funding for ESOL being debated in Parliament yesterday as part of the Westminster Hall debate on Investment in the Provision of ESOL. ESOL students and potential students across the UK have been calling for more classes for far too long. Our own students at EFA tell us it is […]
English for Action is run by an amazing board of trustees who help our ten members of staff run the organisation. Trustees are volunteers who are legally and ethically responsible for the running of the charity and making sure that the organisation is doing the best for its students. We […]
“Speak English! You’re in England now”, sadly a phrase many of our students have had directed at them. Yesterday on BBC Radio 5, EFA’s teacher and co-founder, Dermot Bryers was invited to oppose this view and give the perspective of people often on the receiving end of this abuse. Nihal […]