Nigeria: At the Ikoyi Prison School, educated inmates such as Adelanwa and Chijioke, who requested that their real identities be hidden, form the bulk of the teaching staff in the school. Adelanwa, who claimed to be a former student of Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, teaches his colleagues in the prison English and Economics, while [...]
Ethiopia & United States: Nazrfet.com notes that as part of its ongoing commitment to support Ethiopia’s educational system, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the American Institutes for Research (AIR), launched today a new education training program to strengthen primary school teaching. The Teach English for Life Learning (TELL) program will train [...]
Rwanda: Following the move by the government making English the language of instruction in all schools, centres have been established across the country that will facilitate students and teachers learn the language. According to Fred Bahati, the Director of the East African Language Learning Centres, establishing the centres has quickened the process of integrating English [...]
Rwanda: AllAfrica.com notes that forty-four vocational instructors from four districts are currently undergoing a training course in English for vocational instruction at the Rwanda Workforce Development Authority (WDA) headquarters in Remera, Kigali.
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Rwanda: The recent government decision to use English as the language of instruction has kicked off in some schools, with teachers enrolling for the language alongside their students, reports AllAfrica.com. Among the schools that have started implementing English language is St Patrick primary school in Kicukiro district.
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In accordance with a cabinet policy announcement last October, affirming that all public servants learn English, the government and the private sector are set to join hands at ensuring its success. A document obtained from the Ministry of Public Service and Labour states: ” government will work closely with concerned institutions to develop English training [...]
More than 200 English teachers, mostly from the northern regions, attended a professional development conference last weekend at the University of Namibia in Oshakati. The event was probably the largest gathering of English teachers in the history of the country.
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In yet another killer blow to the language of love, the Rwandan government has decided to change instruction in schools from French to English. All government employees are now required to learn English, and everyone here from lawmakers to taxi drivers to students to businesspeople seems to believe that the usefulness of French, introduced by [...]
Mr Samuel Bannerman-Mensah, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), has attributed the falling standard of education to the downward trend of the English language. Speaking at a national forum on the falling standard of education for directors of education, heads of Senior High Schools (SHS) and heads of English departments in Kumasi, he said [...]
Namibia & United Kingdom: Learners from three Namibian schools yesterday met some of their British counterparts under a programme, Connecting Classrooms, by the British Council in Namibia.
The programme is aimed at promoting intercultural dialogue through school links.
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