LONDON, April 26 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- EF Education First, the world leader in international education, has unveiled the EF Research Unit at the University of Cambridge's Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics. With this research unit, EF has become the first education company in the world to partner with the University of Cambridge to examine the factors that lead to faster and more effective ways to learn English. The establishment of this unit is part of EF's multi-million dollar investment in research and development.

LUCERNE, Switzerland, March 24 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- EF Education First, the world leader in international education, has launched the latest version of its Efekta(TM) English learning system. The system, developed over the last three years, uses advanced speech recognition, online English teachers, and sleek videos to speed learning by up to 50% over traditional methods. It is only available at EF's 400 language schools (http://www.ef.com/ ) and as an online English course at EF Englishtown (http://www.englishtown.com/ ).

HONG KONG, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- UBM Asia (http://www.ubmasia.com ) announced today the launch of its first virtual trade show for business schools, MBA Wired APAC (http://www.mbawired.com ).

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Participants from anywhere across the globe will be able to chat live with representatives of international business schools, network with other candidates, watch school and programme presentations, download MBA profiles and attend real-time webcasts, all without having to leave their home or office.

EF’s Englishtown, an innovative online learning technology, to train 80,000 Brazilians a year in the run up to soccer competition

SAO PAULO, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Soccer is considered the world’s most beautiful game. And EF Education First (EF), the world leader in international education, will make sure that to the ears of soccer fans headed to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup, English will be the world’s most beautiful language.

University Now Accepting Applications for Admission for SCAD Hong Kong

HONG KONG, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- SCAD, the most comprehensive art and design university in the world, announces that 14 non-local courses of study have been registered by the Hong Kong Education Bureau. SCAD, the only university in Hong Kong to focus exclusively on art and design, will begin classes in Fall 2010. Applications for admission are now being accepted at http://www.scad.edu/apply .

NINGBO, CHINA, May 26 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- The Ningbo University of Technology (NBUT) is accepting applications for its renowned four-year English-language bachelor's program that prepares students for global positions in the in-demand field of engineering.

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