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SLB members Simon Courtney and Myles Klynhout collaborated to conduct a survey of how the COVID-19 crisis has impacted language teachers in the Barcelona area. Their survey shines light on a group of workers who have not suffered as badly […]
Earlier this year James and Melanie, two SLB members, conducted an online survey. It looked at teacher demographics, teaching background, working conditions and teachers’ reflections on the ELT industry. Here is an open access report that documents the findings of […]
What? Earlier this year James and Melanie, two SLB members, conducted an online survey. It looked at teacher demographics, teaching background, working conditions and teachers’ reflections on the ELT industry. If you’re reading this, you might be one of the […]
This blog has gone a long time without an update, but lots has been happening at SLB – read on to find out the SLB news September 2019! New edition of our TBLT course At the end of 2018 we […]
Two years ago, several SLB cooperative members decided to invest extra time and money into building an e-learning platform. We are now finally launching that platform, learn.SLB, with its first teacher-training and language-learning courses. Why launch an e-learning platform? As […]
This piece was commissioned by the Teachers as Workers collective and is published simultaneously on their blog. We will not accept botch jobs or blackmail. In keeping with our principles, we are not going to sign an agreement that doesn’t […]
The year has already passed for some of the world as I’m typing this, so before the bells toll for us, and we down our grapes, cava, whiskey, or whatever, we’ve just about got time to squeeze out a quick […]
A while back we reported on the formulation of a new law for autónomo workers in Spain (autónomos are officially registered freelancers). Well, it took a while but a good part of that bill has now passed into law, with more elements […]
On Saturday November 25th 2017 in Barcelona, SLB’s Tom Flaherty hosted an interactive workshop on action research. Here Tom explains what he understands by the term. What is action research? Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. Practice […]
In SLB we believe that it’s crucial to know your rights as a language teacher in the private sector in Catalunya. To clear up some topics such as the role of unions, the convenios and the right to collective bargaining […]