The not entirely optimism-inspiring named Enconcept E-Academy, established in 1994, is now considered, apparently, to be a new ‘breed’ of English cram school. Are you already worried?
It has a range of ‘interesting’ and ‘pragmatic’ methods to attract more and more students to learn English, whether it’s vocabulary, grammar, or conversation, which we all know [...]
The Malaysian government, still not content about the amount of damage it’s done, is considering bringing forward the implementation of the new policy to replace the Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics in English (PPSMI) to 2011 for Year One pupils. However, notes The Sun Daily, this will depend on ’several factors’ such as [...]
Not that offering courses in three (that’s 3) different languages is any kind of record, but prospective students of Dulwich College, scheduled to open in Seoul in 2010 will have a chance to learn three languages at the same time. I know, you can scare contain your excitement.
Fraser White, executive chairman of the Dulwich College [...]
Here’s how it goes…
“I have a regular salary,” he says, reading lines off a computer screen.
The voice-recognition software evaluates his answer: 100 per cent.
“Would you describe your work as stable?” continues Lucy.
“Yes. How long will it take you to evaluate my application?”
Another 100 per cent. Not bad.
Thrilling stuff, I’m sure you’ll agree.
In September, Speak2Me’s registered [...]
South Korea & the Philippines: ‘They come in their thousands every month, eager to learn what is considered as the language of some 1.8 billion people worldwide,’ exclaims the Korea Times with no small degree of hyperbole.
For South Korean students, the Philippines has now become something of a haven as far as learning the English [...]
The Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, has called on educators to give their 100 per cent support to the changes to the national education policy, particularly the decision to revert the teaching of Science and Mathematics in English to the Malay language from 2012.
“I expect a 100 per cent support from educators, without [...]
According to the Times of India, as part of its global vision for English, the British Council has launched the programme ‘Project English’ in India and Sri Lanka. The aim is that by 2010 every teacher and learner of English in the world will have access to skills, ideas and materials they need from the [...]
The AmerAsian School in Okinawa (AASO) is unique in that it enrolls almost exclusively biracial American-Japanese students, and has developed an original bilingual, bicultural “double” curriculum. Founded in 1998 by five Okinawan mothers, the privately run, K-9 school of 80 students contends that “Amerasian” children have the right to study in both Japanese and English, [...]
It’s back to the classroom for English lecturers at various government colleges in the state. Under the project high TEC’ (teaching English through conversation), the commissionerate of collegiate education and the US department of state have organised a training programme to arm teachers with interactive teaching skills and internet know-how.
Notes the Times of India: “It [...]
According to Forbes, Malaysia is to abandon teaching maths and science in English, saying that far too many children from poor rural areas were failing by the programme. The decision to start phasing out English medium teaching from 2012 has been backed by the government and Malaysia’s main opposition parties, despite concerns that using the [...]
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