Global Lovey-Dovey Education

Due to the recent events in my country, I wasn't able to write about my Excellence in Academic Teaching in English Program experience. The overall sense of it is that it seems like a vast terrain is taking shape and form as I write this.

Fact number one, every college is trying to capture more students from abroad, which is no secret, as they pay larger fees and contribute to housing and food expenses towards the native country. Fact number two, revenue might come as academic or experiential recognition. Fact number three, a false premise is that everyone who speaks English can teach it's subject matter in English. Completely false. There has to be someone or, in this case, some English speaking nation/academy/company that actually sets a standard to this service.

So there it is. Brexit or not, the UK has a great opportunity to colonise new fields of pedagogy around the world and interactive teaching dynamics through language. Because, and here I insert bold words: How is it of not through language that you can actually understand any kind of knowledge?

Fluency is only the ability to apply dynamism and humor to communication in any dialect. It means you got the message and now know how to use it.

To the British Council this means great business and constant transformation. But I might also add, great responsibility and the fact this is an experiment that either good or bad, will certainly provide an amazing contribution towards global education.

The last advice given to us by Mark Searle (the bright Oxford chap that originally designed the English as a Medium of Instruction or EMI program) was: hold on to your culture as much as you can. Hold on to what's dear and unique about Mexico. Coming from a country that has tried to be part of the European Union and is now considering getting out, this advice seems under a different context, the most important thing to be conscious about.