“This is my first week as Acting Editor of Language Travel Magazine and it feels like walking into the middle of a storm. Not, I hasten to add, due to any lack of organisational ability of the Editor – although Amy’s desk does look considerably tidier since she left on maternity leave – but due to the current furore surrounding the UK visa system. This week’s ‘View from the Desk of’ contributor, Guido Schillig from Anglo-Continental School of English in Bournemouth calculates the financial cost of having his school’s sponsorship licence suspended and this figure means that the implications of the UKBA actions to the UK ELT industry are staggering.
More visa change was introduced this week  in the form of electronic acceptance letters, although one school principal referred to this as having the same relevance as a deckchair on the Titanic. Is the UK language school sector really going to go the way of the Titanic? The jury, it seems, is out.”