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The Boston Globe  - Boston, 03 Feb 2013

Education First aims to bridge barriers with exchange

The Boston Globe features Bertil Hult's profile who started EF Education First nearly 50 years ago with only $700. Today the company has 34,000 employees in 55 countries and organizes student trips and language courses around the world.

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WBUR 90.9FM (NPR News Station)  - Boston, 26 Dec 2012

EF EPI featured on WBUR, Boston's NPR


EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI) author Kate Bell was featured on the Morning Edition on WBUR 90.9FM, Boston's NPR News Station, discussing the EF EPI.


Here is a short excerpt:


Study author Kate Bell says countries in northern Europe embrace English as a tool; “Those countries really just see it as a tool, a necessary tool, like math, reading, or science and they teach [English] to a higher level to all students in schools…”

Listen to the full 40 second clip here!

Inc.  - International, 20 Dec 2012

World's Coolest Offices: Your Picks

EF featured in Inc.com as one of the "World's Coolest Offices".

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Wired  - , 30 Oct 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...

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New York Times  - International, 29 Oct 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.

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The Economist  - New York, 29 Oct 2012

English where she is spoke

Last year we looked at the first-ever global survey of English-language skills by EF Education First, a teaching company. This year, EF has produced its second study of the same subject. It's worth revisiting for the changes between last year and this one.

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Forbes  - New York, 26 Oct 2012

English - The Language of Global Business?

With China’s growing economic might, is Mandarin becoming the preferred language of business? Not anytime soon, says a newly released study.

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Management Thinking Blog  - , 11 Oct 2012

Mind your language (skills)

Seven billion people speak seven thousand languages. The world is a noisy place and so we struggle to overcome a persistent obstacle: understanding each other.Read more

Time Magazine  - , 27 Sep 2012

Hult Challenge Selected by President Clinton and TIME

The Hult Global Case Challenge is selected by President Clinton and TIME magazine as 1 of the 5 top ideas changing the world today. See why the Hult Prize and it's US$1,000,000 in start-up capital is the program for budding social entrepreneurs.

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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.

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 - 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.

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 - International, 21 May 2012

A Way Up For Women in Business

Tanja Levine, executive director at Hult International Business School, provides on women in MBAs and what Hult is doing to support women in pursuing a graduate degree.See full article

 - International, 09 May 2012

Hodges: The UK's Looming Brain Drain

 

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Wall Street Journal  - International, 09 May 2012

Language Barriers Blamed for Miscues

Nearly half the executives at global companies believe language barriers have spoiled cross-border deals and caused financial losses for companies, says a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by EF Education First. 

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Monocle  - International, 09 May 2012

Speaking Volumes

In the past three years, Swedish language-teaching company EF has tripled in size and has left its competitors speechless. We profile the family firm that is transforming the industry.

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 - International, 04 May 2012

Bailey: Language Barriers and Miscommunications are Stifling Growth

 

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 - China, 18 Apr 2012

EF China featured in Interior Design Magazine- “Creativity is Born Here”

 

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 - New York, 04 Nov 2011

5 Myths about MBAs

Should I get an MBA? More and more people seem to be asking that question, with a 9.9 percent drop in applications for two year MBA programs, the third consecutive year showing decline. Meanwhile, more specialized degrees, like a Master of Finance, are seeing increases. Is the MBA no longer about training tomorrow's captains of industry and more about training the next Richard Fuld, last CEO of Lehman Brothers and infamously dubbed the "Worst CEO of All Time"?

While, certainly, a few bad apples have given MBAs an aura of infamy, I'd like to bust a few commonly held myths about MBAs.

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 - Washington D.C., 06 Oct 2011

Young MBAs Compete to Solve Global Problems

Solving the world’s most pressing social challenges takes passion, dedication, innovation and a good business plan, which is the idea behind the Hult Global Case Challenge. 

Hult International Business school is one of the world’s top business schools, with campuses across the globe. Three years ago, Ahmad Ashkar, one of its enterprising MBA students, founded the Hult Global Case Challenge (Hult GCC), a competition for business students to come up with ways of solving pressing global issues.

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 - London, 07 Jun 2011

The Guardian - Russia in race for Olympic English

The organisers of the 2014 winter Olympics in the Russian resort city of Sochi last month appointed EF Education First, the Swiss-based language training provider, as the official supplier of language training for the event, with the task of teaching English to up to 70,000 Olympic staff, volunteers and tourist-sector workers.

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 - New York, 14 May 2011

The Wall Street Journal - English Spoken Here

The emerging BRIC economies are running up against a language barrier, according to a new survey of 44 non-English-speaking nations and territories (most shown here) by the study-abroad company EF Education First. Brazil, Russia, India and China all were in the bottom third in English-language proficiency among adults. In Latin America, Brazil ranked sixth, bested by tiny economies such as Costa Rica.

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 - London, 27 Apr 2011

Students compete to win $1m water project funding

Currently, some 1.1 billion people lack access to clean water, and more than 2.5 billion people lack access to safe sanitation. Based on innovative ideas presented at the second annual Hult International Business School Global Case Challenge a few weeks ago, solutions can be identified to help solve the water scarcity issue.

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 - 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.

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 - 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.

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