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NEWS .

NEW ZEALAND: gl bal
Language school association
English New Zealand has
announced its new chairman.
Wayne Dyer, principal of
Auckland English Academy, will
take the reins of the association
as the industry showed an perspective
approximate 20 per cent growth
in student numbers, student
weeks and tuition revenue last
year.
The New Zealand government The Gazette editorial team’s
recently launched a draft Strategy selection of ELT news from
for International Education that
will set priorities for the industry, around the world
including increasing the number
of source countries for students,
Icef Monitor reports.
The strategy aims to increase MOROCCO: addresses the province’s said employees were told never
the economic benefit of the An advertisement saying ‘If you declining population and to use Thai in the classroom but
international education industry still don’t speak English, go and gaps in the workforce. Fifty were never advised to lie about
to NZ$5 billion (£2.8bn) by 2025. kill yourself’, complete with a international university and their identities.
figure holding a gun to its head, college graduates were chosen
has caused outcry in the country, to take part, and the first
Morocco World News reports. cohort recently completed the
The English language school programme.
behind it, British Workshop, Organisers said they were on
apologised and withdrew the track to meet their goal of
advertisement. However, they keeping 80 per cent of the class
said it was never their intention in the province for a year of
to offend. work after graduation.
‘Our intention was only to raise The initiative offers a range
awareness of the importance of services to students, such
of the English language using as help finding employment
a common formula of the and developing professional
Moroccan dialect in a humorous networks, mentorships and
KAZAKHSTAN: way. Obviously, some people work placements.
The education system in interpreted it differently’, MALAYSIA:
Kazakhstan will get a taste British Workshop wrote on their English-language training will be
of English as a medium of Facebook page. THAILAND: made available for all kindergarten
instruction, news agency Thai teachers with fluent English and pre-school teachers in the
Kazinform reports. are hiding their nationality in Malaysian state of Sarawak, the
From September, pupils from class in order to be accepted by government has announced.
over 500 schools will have the their students, according to an The programme aims to
option to switch voluntarily investigation by Khaosod.com. improve early language learning in
to English medium with their The website interviewed three the region by improving teachers’
parents’ permission. teachers who had been sent to skills.
The minister of education said work in Thai state schools by the ‘Before we train our youngsters
that the government will work same Thai teaching agency. to have a good command of the
on a pilot this year to collect One interviewee told the English language, we must first
data on students and teachers to interviewer he posed as a train those who train them,’
help develop the new policy. Singaporean national in class said the minister for family and
Reactions are encouraging, CANADA: so his pupils would be eager to childhood development Datuk
with the minister saying, A new scheme has been launched talk to him. ‘They value us less if Fatimah Abdullah.
‘Children are not afraid, parents to encourage international they know we are Thai,’ he said. ‘Mastering the English language
approve and teachers show good students to stay in Nova Scotia, The agency told reporters that is one way to have children secure
results.’ Canada after their graduation. the schools and parents knew their future,’ she added.
The Stay in Nova Scotia scheme the identity of the teachers. It

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