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UAE: Government schools
across the United Arab
Emirates have joined forces and gl bal that half have missed their independence by cutting internet 2009, which regulates Tajik from the students involved to pay
introduced a common curriculum international recruitment targets and electricity connections to the spelling. In a move that will make for the removal of the graffiti.
with more subjects taught in this year. About 40 per cent saw region in recent months. the Tajik government become ‘The students in question were
English, the National reports. In a decline in international student the champion of every online encouraged to take responsibility
a bid to encourage students to numbers. grammar pedant, the country’s by their group leaders, as well as
study more science and improve Language and Terminology the Globe staff,’ Anton Borgen-
their English, the shake-up will perspective Committee has demanded that Davis, director of the school,
see more science subjects being CAMEROON: The Wikipedia correct every mistake told the Gazette. They very
taught in English for senior number of dead from the ongoing on its Tajik pages. Tajik scholar much regretted their actions and
secondary school students. At unrest in the English-speaking and former English language voluntarily made contributions
present, many students fail their region of Cameroon has risen teacher Ibrohimjon Rustamov towards cleaning costs which the
English language high school The Gazette editorial team’s to 17 people, Al Jazeera reports. told RadioFreeEurope that Globe has passed on to Exeter
exit test, the website reports. selection of ELT news from Security forces fired at protesters Caroline Granycome. authorities were ‘unaware’ of City Council.’ Lead Councillor
Parents welcomed the changes on October 1 as they marched how Wikipedia works. ‘It’s Stephen Brimble told DevonLive:
but complained about the around the world for independence in the region. senseless to demand editing from ‘I have to applaud the Globe for
short notice, as changes were Ilaria Allegrozzi, Amnesty a source that can be edited by their actions, it certainly helps us
announced just a few days before International’s Lake Chad region anyone, including by Tajikistan’s with our battle against graffiti’.
the start of the new academic researcher, said in a statement: ‘In TAJIKISTAN: language-committee specialists,’
year.. teaching, teacher training and need for careful planning and order to avoid further bloodshed, The government of the central he said..
CANADA: There was community health education. implementation of the policy, the security forces must cease Asian country is planning the
relief in Québec as the province’s Meanwhile, the fiercely especially in regards to language unnecessary and excessive use of strange move of taking legal
ICELAND: French-language police said they independent English language requirements and testing. It also force, and protesters should be action against Wikipedia, news UK: An English language
An advertisement for will now allow some English paper the Cambodia Daily has said the policy won’t remove the peaceful if they want to make their agency Asia Plus reports. The school made the news in the
clothing giant H&M has caused terms and spellings including closed down amid a crackdown need for interpreters, as not every voices heard. The government reason? The user-edited online South West of England for the
controversy in Iceland. It wasn’t ‘grilled cheese,’ ‘cocktail,’ and on critics of the country’s foreigner speaks English. should investigate these killings.’ encyclopedia’s pages in Tajik are way it responded when a group of
its size - a giant hoarding at ‘baby boom.’ L’Office Québécois leadership. The paper had been Alongside violence against full of spelling mistakes – and its students were caught defacing
a shopping mall in central de la langue Française (OQLF) given a deadline of one month to protesters, the government has this contravenes the country’s buildings. Globe English Centre,
Reykjavik - that annoyed some released a new list of acceptable pay $6.3m in years of back taxes, US: International student tried to disrupt the campaign for language law, introduced in based in Exeter, collected money
Icelanders. The culprit was the anglicisms for French in Québec which the publication disputes. enrolments are down for some
language: the ad was in English. last month. In the past, the universities in the US according
Debate ensued on social media. OQLF has striven to find to two separate polls, Icef Monitor
According to a professor of equivalent French terms for reports. An annual survey by
Icelandic at the University of ubiquitous English phrases, Inside Higher Ed and Gallup
Iceland, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, such as ‘selfie’ (égoportrait) discovered that only about a
the ad may be breaking the law, and ‘hashtag’ (mot-clic). OQLF third of institutions had met
which states that all advertising spokesman Jean-Pierre Le Blanc PROTOCOL OFFICE OF THE CAMBODIAN PRIME MINISTER their enrolment targets for the
directed at Icelanders must be in said: ‘Our policy will always new academic year on May 1.
Icelandic. He sent an inquiry to be to aim to promote French It also found that respondents
the Consumer Agency of Iceland terms, but if [English] terms are concerned about a so-
and said the City of Reykjavik have become part of common called ‘Trump effect’, with three
shows ‘a lack of leadership in usage, we can accept them’. quarters agreeing that the
upholding Icelandic language FINLAND: Finland’s president’s policies will make it
laws’. The advert was removed second largest city, Espoo, is harder to recruit international
after the council got in touch CAMBODIA: PEnglish making English its third working students. Another poll of 85
with H&M. It was all down to ‘a language in Cambodia has taken language to make its English- institutions run by the Chronicle
misunderstanding’, the council’s a blow, as the country’s prime speaking residents ‘feel a sense of Higher Education and the
public relation officer told the minister called for the withdrawal of inclusiveness’. English won’t Association of International
Icelandic press. of the US Peace Corps. Prime have the same official status Education Administrators reports
minister Hun Sen called on as Finnish, Swedish and Sami,
the United States to withdraw but will be increasingly used
Peace Corps volunteers in an in public services, health care
escalating row over accusations and education, city board chair
that US agents conspired with an Markku Markkula told website
opposition leader to undermine Yle. ‘Within two years we could
the government. The Peace have education all the way from
Corps has operated in Cambodia kindergarten to the doctorate
since 2006 and 500 volunteers level all in English,’ he said. The
have been involved in English nurses’ union highlighted the

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