{"id":7160,"date":"2022-11-02T17:25:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T17:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.morethanenglish.co.uk\/?p=7160"},"modified":"2022-11-02T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T17:25:24","slug":"education-experts-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/?p=7160","title":{"rendered":"Education Experts in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>What&#8217;s more exciting than meeting friends and colleagues from around the world?<\/h1>\n<p>When you work in the world of international education, it&#8217;s essential to stay in touch with colleagues from around the world in order keep up to date with the latest trends and developments.<\/p>\n<p>This month, More Than English founders, David Meddows and Claire Norwood were in Berlin taking part in the world&#8217;s biggest education conference: ICEF Berlin (October 30 &#8211; November 01 2022).<\/p>\n<p>As well as learning about developments in education and market trends, this annual event is an opportunity for universities, colleges and summer school providers such as More Than English to meet the education agencies who promote and sell international education, and find the best way of working together.<\/p>\n<h2>35 meetings. 21 nationalities.<\/h2>\n<p>Over just two days, Claire and David had 35 meetings with the representatives and directors of education agencies from Ukraine, Spain, Georgia, Romania, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey, Italy, Cyprus, UK, France, Portugal, Egypt, Malta, Poland, Czech Republic,\u00a0 Slovenia, Lebanon, Qatar and India,<\/p>\n<p>In total, the event involved 2,460 friends and colleagues from 114 countries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7163\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7163\" src=\"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221030_142226-600-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221030_142226-600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221030_142226-600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Challenges for Generation Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Takeaways<\/h2>\n<p>Here are some of the most important things we learnt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Education agencies are more and more preferring to work with\u00a0 smaller education providers that can provide consistently high standard and personalised education services even in the most challenging international conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Attention is power<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Generation Z have arrived in education institutions and they have different needs to Millennials.\u00a0 Before the tech era arrived we used to say &#8220;knowledge is power&#8221;. With the arrival of the AI, data harvesting and the smartphone,\u00a0 the mantra changed to &#8220;information is power.&#8221; These days, with so much knowledge and data available with the swipe of a finger, overload and distraction have brought us to a new world where &#8220;attention is power.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0Helping students develop this key skill is important for education institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Our final takeaway is that the best pretzels are in Germany.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7164\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7164\" src=\"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221102-WA0005-600-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221102-WA0005-600-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG-20221102-WA0005-600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pretzels in Hamburg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<pre>Students!! If you get an invitation from German More Than English students to visit Berlin, Hamburg, Munich or anywhere else in Germany, say \"yes!\"<\/pre>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7165\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7165\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7165 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221101_175050-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221101_175050-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_20221101_175050.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meeting very old friends in Berlin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s more exciting than meeting friends and colleagues from around the world? When you work in the world of international education, it&#8217;s essential to stay in touch with colleagues from around the world in order keep up to date with the latest trends and developments. This month, More Than English founders, David Meddows and Claire &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/?p=7160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Education Experts in Berlin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affectionate-pasteur.212-227-183-170.plesk.page\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}