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Sustainability in EMI: Meeting the SDGs through education
Yvette from Oxford EMI highlights the importance of sustainability to universities. On the ten-year anniversary of the adoption of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Oxford EMI’s Yvette reflects on how prospective students view sustainable universities, how universities contribute to and are assessed on the SDGs, and how our teacher training programmes help universities…
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EMI in Taiwan: Promising steps towards the BEST project goals
Oxford EMI’s International Programmes Coordinator Emma outlines some of what we discovered on our visits to universities across Taiwan in July 2025. As discussed in Tom’s earlier blog, the Ministry of Education in Taiwan has set ambitious and inspiring goals for internationalisation through the Bilingual Education for Students in College (BEST) project. Having completed our evaluation…
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Large scale EMI evaluation project: Oxford EMI’s work in Taiwan
Tom from Oxford EMI reflects on our consultancy work for the BEST programme in Taiwan. In April, 2021, the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan announced an ambitious and well-funded initiative “The Programme on Bilingual Education for Students in College” or BEST programme. This is set to run until 2030 with the two main goals of cultivating English proficiency…
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Reflections from IATEFL 2025: English Medium Instruction (EMI) highlights
As the call for proposals for next year’s IATEFL opens, I’d like to look back at and reflect on what IATEFL 2025 included in terms of global views on EMI, a topic which seems to be growing in interest at the event. The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL) conference…
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6th EMI Symposium 2025
Members of the Oxford EMI team were delighted to attend and present at the 6th EMI Symposium this year. Here’s some of what they got out of the two-day event. The 6th EMI Symposium, partnered with the 3rd annual ELINET conference, took place on the 3rd and 4th of July this year at the Department…
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Reflecting on 10 Years of EMI: In conversation with Julie Dearden, Director of Oxford EMI
Q: Julie, you’ve been involved with English Medium Instruction (EMI) for over a decade. How did your journey begin? Julie: Well, I’d been working in the field of teaching long before this, but I suppose it really all started when I wrote the first global report on EMI: “English as a medium of instruction- a…
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Welcome to the Oxford EMI blog
As you know, part of the training ethos at Oxford EMI is to set up Communities of Practice (CoPs) which aim to support faculties teaching through English Medium Instruction (EMI). This includes both content and language teachers, as well as teaching assistants, administrators and other support staff. Through these CoPs, we encourage members to share…
