This year on the day of its birthday People’s Ukrainian Academy had a very special ceremony:

the memorandum of cooperation with the International Educational Group “Pearson Dinternal” was signed as a stately occasion. According to M. Malygina, Head of “Pearson education” office in Ukraine, the purpose of our cooperation is to improve and develop the system of English language learning/teaching in the whole educational institution.

In the programme of the special day there was a Teacher Training seminar for our teachers, carried out by Michael Hudson, Pearson’s representative and a professional teacher trainer. He spoke about Pearson’s latest project – a virtual laboratory for English language learning/ teaching “My English lab” which enables students to learn the language autonomously, giving them access to a virtual interactive workbook, and spares teachers marking and grading homework, giving them opportunity to keep their eye on students’ progress. This is what 21^st century students and teachers are supposed to be able to do.