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Tweet Once you’ve started down a particular career path, teaching English being no exception, changing jobs after several years can be difficult and extremely daunting. With this in mind, I wonder how many of you have ever thought about what it could be like to be a part of the bail enforcement industry possibly as [...] Tweet More than 150 teachers from 19 Chinese schools in the Jasin district, Malacca, recently gathered for a two-hour long Newspaper-In-Education (NiE) session. The workshop, aimed at encouraging teachers to use the newspaper as a teaching resource in the classroom as well as enhancing the use of English among students, was conducted by Star-NiE trainer [...] Tweet The University of Cambridge English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Examinations is planning to work with education councils and corporate sectors across the UAE to raise the standard of English among students, teachers and professionals in the country. While a number of students of private schools in the emirates are already writing the [...] Tweet For more than a decade, as the immigration debate has swelled on both sides of the border, the Mexican government has been quietly providing money, materials and even teachers to American schools, colleges and nonprofit organizations, reports USA Today. Read the full story… Sphere: Related Content Tweet The Shanghai Daily notes how the Walt Disney Co has opened a Disney English teaching facility in Shanghai that combines Disney’s famed storytelling and fun with original stories and songs written just for Chinese kids. The small English-immersion classes are given by tutors from North America and bilingual assistants at the school on Maoming [...] Tweet In 1996, The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) kicked off the trial programme on teaching English as an optional subject to primary school students, reports Vietnamnet. 12 years later, the ministry plans to teach English as a compulsory subject to primary school students throughout the country, though there still exist a lot of [...] Tweet 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 [...] Tweet 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. Read the full story… Sphere: Related Content Tweet High-flying Portsmouth FC’s international stars have been sent off to the classroom as they try to learn the language of football. According to the ever reliable Sun newspaper, Sixteen of Pompey’s current 28-strong squad are currently drawn from outside the UK from places as far flung as Senegal, Israel, Iceland and Croatia. So making [...] Tweet The authorities are moving to require ethnic Koreans to submit documents proving they have no criminal record and undergo drug testing when they apply for English teaching positions here. The move comes even though the immigration authorities say they have no plan to change the current visa policy favoring ethnic Koreans, reports The Korea [...]  |
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