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Tweet The campaign to boost the teaching of computer skills – particularly coding – in schools is gathering force. Today the likes of Google, Microsoft and other leading technology names will lend their support to the case made to the government earlier this year in a report called Next Gen. BBC News notes that the [...] Tweet Germany: Attempts to build a multicultural society in Germany have “utterly failed,” Chancellor Angela Merkel says. Notes the BBC, Merkel has claimed the so-called “multikulti” concept – where people would “live side-by-side” happily – did not work, and immigrants needed to do more to integrate – including learning German. Read more about this here… [...] Tweet Moscow’s City Duma has suggested an amendment to a new law that would require all teachers to apply for work permits… in addition to the work visas which currently allow them to teach here. Also, according to the amendment’s author, Tatyana Potyayeva, the deputy head of the City Duma’s Science and Education committee, the [...] Tweet United Kingdom: The jobs of up to 80 staff at Hounslow Language Service are under threat after councillors agreed they should withdraw almost 20% of its funding. YourLocalGuardian notes that the service – which provides specialist support for over 7,000 schoolchildren from ethnic minorities in developing their English – has 105 teaching and [...] Tweet Pupils at 25 infant and primary schools throughout Murcia will be offered the chance of bilingual education in the next academic year under a programme which will offer a third of the schools’ classes in English, notes the Typically Spanish website. This regional government programme will benefit more than one thousand children, and [...] Tweet More than 100 schools and colleges will be bilingual during the next academic year in Málaga province. The Junta de Andalucía has said that it wants to promote the teaching of English, French and German, and that 136 centres will be joining the program over the next three years. Under the program as well [...] Tweet A school where more than 40 different languages are spoken by pupils has just been commended by the ever reliable Ofsted for its ‘outstanding’ English teaching. At Challney Boys School nearly all of the pupils are from ethnic minorities and 86 percent don’t have English as their first language. Read on… Sphere: Related Content Tweet In Germany it seems that, increasingly, many small and midsize businesses are certain: English is a must. Eleven percent of 1,000 small and midsize businesses surveyed by the EU Commission stated that they had lost orders because of inadequate foreign-language skills; 26% of those businesses specified English and 13% mentioned German as the most [...] Tweet African children are more likely to be bullied at Irish schools than Eastern Europeans, a new report claims. According to the Irish Independent, ‘Adapting to Diversity: Irish Schools and Newcomer Students‘, compiled by the Economic and Social Research Institute, surveyed 1,200 primary and second-level schools across the country. Most newcomers do not have [...] Tweet Today’s schoolchildren are growing up surrounded by examples of people making their way in another country and speaking another language, namely English, exclaims the Independent. A recent report from the CBI, the employers’ organisation, has shown that around three-quarters of companies look for recruits with some foreign language skills, and are likely to [...]  |
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