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World: ESL students turn to essay writing services

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Essay writing is capable of turning your student years into a monotonous and challenging time of life. Custom Essay Order is an essay writing service that assists students in terms of decreasing the scholastic encumbrance. Students desire more than enough time to be engaged in supplementary activities other than course work. Except for opening [...]

Rwanda: 900 English tutors are to train local teachers

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Rwanda & South Africa: The government, through the Teacher’s Service Commission, has selected 949 English tutors to train local primary and secondary school teachers how to appropriately conduct lessons in English.

Notes AllAfrica.com, The selection follows the Ministry of Education advertisement seeking 1000 teachers from neighbouring countries, after the country’s switch from French to [...]

Rwanda: Language Centres Set Up All Over the Country

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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 [...]

Rwanda: WDA Begins English Lessons for Vocational Instructors

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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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English Language Teaching Kicks Off in Rwanda

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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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Rwanda: Government to Partner Private Sector in Implementing English Training Programme

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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 [...]

Rwandans Say ‘Adieu’ to le Français

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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 [...]

The unstoppable rise of the English language

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At present, more than half of Africa’s 52 countries speak French, but the number is dropping. This month Rwanda defected, announcing that henceforward only English will be taught in the schools. It would not be overstating the case to say that this caused alarm and despondency in France.

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Rwanda: Kagame Reiterates Need to Use English as Education Medium

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President Paul Kagame yesterday stressed the urgency in the process of using English as a medium of education in all Rwandan schools, saying it is a choice Rwandans have to make if they need development, reports allafrica.com. He said this while visiting Ecole Primaire d’Application de Kimihurura (EPAK), a primary school located in Kimihurura, [...]

Rwanda opts for English teaching

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Rwanda’s cabinet has decided that all education will be taught in English instead of French. Officially the Rwandan decision is a result of joining the English-speaking East African Community.

But relations between Rwanda and France have been frosty following the 1994 genocide, when France was accused of supporting Hutu militias. Rwanda has applied to [...]

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