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IRELAND:
English language teachers gl bal International students are setting up English-speaking courts CHINA: become English teachers through
in Ireland have intensified attracted to Germany because to avoid seeing major litigation Chinese newspaper People’s Daily The Mexican public education
their campaign against ‘unfair there are a high number of affecting their companies being has launched an English-language ministry (SEP), which include
working conditions’. English-taught degrees. The settled in other countries. France, mobile app in addition to its eight- a test in Spanish grammar and
In one of the latest events country has the highest absolute The Netherlands and Germany language website ‘to enhance Mexican history. Mexico has
organised by the Unite trade number of English-taught already have their English- Beijing’s global influence and pledged to help repatriates – some
union, teachers and students perspective bachelors courses, according speaking courts. Brexit, the launch presence’, the South China Morning are returning voluntarily but many
gathered outside a language to Study Portals and EAIE (see press release says, will increase the Post reports. ‘We are striving to are being deported. The number of
school in Dublin to protest Gazette October 2017). amount of litigation to be settled in achieve what President Xi has deportees will rise with the end of
against ‘bogus self-employment’. It also boasts very low tuition an international English-speaking asked, namely to speak well of the Deferred Action for Childhood
Teachers at some English fees and good post-study work court - and it will also make London China and to spread his word well,’ Arrivals Programme, which shields
language schools are wrongly The Gazette editorial team’s rights for international students. a less viable choice. ‘This tribunal the president of the newspaper young undocumented migrants
classified as ‘self-employed’, selection of ELT news from Germany is the sixth-largest will improve even more Brussels’ group said. The People’s Daily from deportation. The ministry
an arrangement whereby the host country for international attractiveness for entrepreneurs sold an average of 3.18 million is also planning other ways to
teacher becomes a freelance around the world students globally after the US, and investors and will consolidate copies a day last year and it says its include repatriates who don’t have
worker, invoicing the school UK, Australia, Canada and the city’s reputation, and that of Chinese-language application was formal English teacher training into
at the end of the month and China. It is ‘closing the gap’ with Belgium,’ justice minister Koen downloaded 200 million times. English classes, such as employing
looking after the tax payments. the UK as the leading European Geens said. them as teaching assistants.
‘The worker is responsible INDIA: training would ensure teachers because of this, but emotionally, destination, Icef Monitor warns.
for their own taxes, and is The northern state of Uttar can teach ‘proper English’ and trying to fit in, because you guys MEXICO:
significantly disadvantaged Pradesh is to convert 5,000 help students ‘pronounce words keep telling him he’s different The government is to make it
in respect of sick pay, holiday existing government primary correctly’. based on his race,’ she told the BELGIUM: easier for Mexicans returning
pay, maternity/paternity pay, schools to English medium, the press. An English-language international from the US to apply for teaching
unemployment benefit and Hindustan Times reports. business court is to open in Brussels, positions, BBC News reports. The
pension entitlements,’ said Unite Anupama Jaiswal, minister US: the Belgian justice minister has plan is part of a drive to make
organiser Roy Hassey. He added of state for basic education, A mother has filed a lawsuit announced. English dominates Mexico bilingual within 20 years.
that his organisation would said that the schools would be against a school district in as the language of commerce so Many returnees have difficulty
now be ‘stepping up political operational in the next academic Michigan alleging that her son non-Anglophone countries are meeting the requirements to
lobbying’ for the inclusion of the year. She added that the move had been wrongly placed in
International Education Mark came in response to a huge an ESL programme in primary
(IEM) system in a goverment demand for English-medium school even though he speaks
bill, which he said ‘will serve to education. only English, Macomb Daily
regulate the ELT sector’. ‘Parents are queuing up for reports. Kim Molnar said her
English-medium schools,’ she son, now aged 13, was pulled
said.
out of normal classes throughout GERMANY:
IRISHFIRESIDE populous state in India and has his primary education to attend Germany is enjoying its sixth
Uttar Pradesh is the most
year of international student
more English lessons, even
the second-largest economy.
The state government will not though he didn’t need them. enrolment growth, Icef Monitor
reports.
Molnar said her son was born in
open new schools, but instead Guatemala, but moved to the US The website reports that
will turn existing primary schools as an infant when she adopted Germany hosted 340,305
English-medium with extensive him. His first and only language international students in 2016,
training and new teaching is English, she maintained. meaning that the country is
material provided to staff. ‘My son is struggling and well on track to meet its 2020
Minister Jaiswal said that having issues, not just in class target of 350,000 enrolments.
ITALY: original productions from ‘small,
The country’s state broadcaster independent producers’ and CC BY 2.0
RAI has announced plans to ban all advertising from every
launch a new channel completely channel targeted at children.
in English, La Repubblica reports. An increasing number of Italian
It will offer news, documentaries productions are shot in English,
and sports running commentaries the Hollywood Reporter reveals. EUROPEAN PEOPLE’S PARTY - EPP CONGRESS BONN,
with a 24-hour service in a bid Major producers, including Sky
to ‘present the country to an Italia and Lux Vide, are planning
international audience’. The TV series in English. ‘I want our
move is part of a new ‘contract product to travel the world’, Lux
of service’ that will include Vide’s Luca Bernabei told the
an obligation for RAI to buy magazine.

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