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Tweet Japan: Teaching-English-in-Japan-Education-Yukako Yukako Uchinaga, CEO of Berlitz has cited worried teachers leaving Japan and the threat of blackouts as having had a significant effect on the language school operator’s business immediately following the March 11th earthquake, with 40% of its teachers becoming unavailable. She noted that the Bennesse subsidiary has consequently realized “the need [...] Tweet Afghanistan & Japan: When Pamela Tucker last deployed to Iraq, she wore a uniform and carried a weapon. On her current deployment to Afghanistan, notes Stars and Stripes website, she’s armed only with the language course curriculum that she uses to teach Afghans English. Tucker, a Department of Defense Education Activity teacher from Misawa [...] Tweet Vietnam: Learning English has become a norm in Vietnam. Everyone thinks that they must speak fluent English in order to get good jobs in this period of globalization. English language centres have been mushrooming in the past few years to satisfy the increasingly high demand. The centres prove to be the most suitable [...] Tweet The Pakistani government has yet to rebuild any of the 159 fully destroyed schools that were bombed by the Taliban. As a result, students are furious, notes the New York Times.. Sphere: Related Content Tweet Hanoi, Vietnam: Youngsters in Ha Noi have rushed to take part in English classes at centres throughout the capital in an effort to learn and improve their English but unfortunately, finding a quality course with affordable fee is not easy, said Hanoian Bui Thi Uyen. Uyen said she has moved her children from one [...] Tweet 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 [...] Tweet 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 [...] Tweet 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 [...] Tweet 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 [...]  |
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