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Supporting English & Media teachers and students through publications and classroom resources, online and in-person CPD, student magazines and research.

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Spring Course Programme

The Spring course programme is now available online.

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Train to Teach Media Studies With EMC & Goldsmiths

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EMC's Mixed Basket 200 Offer!

Pay just £5 a copy when you buy 200+ copies of seventeen key EMC titles below – in any combination.

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Renew MediaMag

Web & PDF subscriptions for 25-26 on sale till 15th February. Immediate access to subscription content!

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Renew emagazine

Web & PDF subscriptions for 25-26 on sale till 15th February. Immediate access to subscription content!

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EMC Magazines – Subscribe or Renew

Print and online and online-only packages. Unlimited simultaneous logins at your institution. Web & PDF subscriptions for 25-26 on sale till 15th February. Immediate access to subscription content!

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emagazine – EMC’s quarterly magazine & subscription website for advanced level English Literature, English Language and Language and Literature students.

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MediaMagazine

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MediaMagazine – EMC’s quarterly magazine and subscription website for advanced level Media and Film Studies students.

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Award-winning publications from EMC

Anthologies, classroom resources, creative writing workbooks and books for teachers.

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EMC Teaching a Novel: Phoenix Brothers (Download)
A Christmas Carol – EMC Full Text Study Edition (Print)
A Christmas Carol – EMC Full Text Study Edition (Hard copy)
Iridescent Adolescent – Diverse Literary Short Stories (Hard copy)
EMC Poetry Playlist – Contemporary Voices for the Classroom (Hard copy)

In-person & online courses to refresh and stimulate.

All courses must be booked online before the booking deadline – 8am, two working days before the course. The Spring 2026 course programme is available now!

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EMC CPD Face-to-Face: A Level English Language – New Directions

This course focuses on the AQA English Language A Level & aspects of language diversity, change and discourses on Paper 2. Also relevant for anyone teaching language variation, accents and dialects or aspects of language & identity for any A Level English Language specification. NB: This is a repeat course.

10 Feb 2026

EMC CPD Webinar: GCSE Revision – The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde

A webinar to refresh your ideas for revisiting Jekyll & Hyde with year 11 students.

10 Feb 2026

EMC CPD Webinar: Classroom Talk in English

Practical approaches and underlying ideas about how to foster really productive talk in KS3 English.

11 Feb 2026

EMC Blog

Informed opinion on current debates, EMC news, recommended sites, reading & resources

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EMC Thinking About Curriculum - Introduction

A call for significant change in the 2026 National Curriculum for English at KS3 and KS4 - in this case 'evolution' is not enough

10 Feb 2026

Thinking Ahead – Talk in the New National Curriculum

Barbara Bleiman sets out why talk is so important in secondary English - particularly forms of talk that promote learning

10 Feb 2026

Are diagnostic tests really that useful in English?

A plea for caution when using diagnostic testing for reading and writing in secondary English

10 Feb 2026