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were enrolled in educational
in reading their own language.
in India’s terrorist networks
VIETNAM: are not only getting left behind 267,000 foreign students schools, which teach in English and Qureshi, aged 46, was a key player
Swedish, has more than quadrupled
Vietnam is set to fail in its goal The research showed they also institutions in Japan – an increase over the last ten years. and a co-founder of the Indian
to make all university graduates gl bal struggle with arithmetic, and 25 of 11.6 per cent on the previous In 2008–09 there were 5,400 Mujahadeen. He was captured by
reach at least CEFR B1 in English per cent of 14-to-18-year-olds year. Most students come from students at IES schools, but that police in late January.
by 2020, experts fear. cannot count money correctly. Asian countries, with China and rose to 24,000 by this academic He fled to Nepal and worked
The national project ‘Teaching However, an increasing number Vietnam at the top of the list. year. According to the English as an English teacher after
and Learning Foreign Languages are now choosing to continue their The trend is mainly reflected Proficiency Index, Swedes are the evading Indian security agencies
in the National Education education. In 2017 70 percent of in higher education institutions, second best in the world when it following a series of bomb blasts
System’, which requires university 18-year-olds were enrolled into a particularly in language courses. comes to speaking English as a in the city of Ahmedabad in
graduates not majoring in foreign perspective course – a 44 per cent increase on These specific programmes second language, behind only the 2008, the Times of India reports.
languages to reach B1 level, is 2011. also attract students from the Dutch.
thought to have failed due to top-ten sending markets such as SPAIN:
weak teacher proficiency and Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Madrid’s regional government is to
lack of teaching time. Malaysia, Philippines and test the English-language level of
Vietnam’s Thai Nguyen The Gazette editorial team’s Bangladesh. Japan is well on all students at the end of primary
University has had to lower the selection of ELT news from its way to achieving its goal of and secondary education.
English language requirement hosting 300,000 students by 2020, This test, which will cost €3.1
for graduation to A2 instead of around the world and the government has been million to roll out, will determine
B1, according to deputy director widely supporting the idea that which level students have reached
Dang Van Minh. foreign graduates are a new source on the CEFR at the end of each
A 2015 survey of fourth- of talent. stage.
and fifth-year students showed after campaigners tried to appeal higher education provision is JAPAN: In addition, Madrid is due to
that less than 20 per cent of against the move. also now under way. The number of international SWEDEN: NEPAL: adopt an external test to assess the
Vietnamese English language He said that the use of According to VET students in Japan has grown for Figures show a surge in the number A man known as ‘India’s Bin English-language level of students
students could match expected Afrikaans had unintentionally authorities, registration was the fifth consecutive year. of young people studying at a Laden’ lived as an English teacher in state-subsidised private schools.
fluency criteria. led to segregation by intensifying removed on a number of grounds Data released by the Japan chain of state-funded bilingual in Nepal in an attempt to evade Students from state schools already
racial and cultural division at the including ‘a low qualification Student Services Organisation schools. The amount of students at security forces, international take this test to assess their skills at
university. completion rate … inaccurate shows that in May 2017 over International English Schools (IES) press reports. Abdul Subhan the end of each year.
Mr Mogoeng said that students and misleading sales and
have a constitutional right to recruitment practices and …
study in any official language insufficient resources, including
of their choice, but the major trainers and assessors’.
challenge was that learning Study Group chief executive INDIA:
material in other languages was David Leigh told the PIE News A quarter of 14-to-18-year-old Find out about
not accessible. website that the removal of students in India’s rural areas LanguageCert’s recognitions
Afrikaans will however still be registration applied only to cannot ‘read basic text fluently in languagecert.org
used in expanded tutorial sessions VET courses. their own language’, according to
as well as in the departments of ‘It would be a mistake for a new report.
education and theology. anyone to infer from this The study, released by non-profit
SOUTH AFRICA: anything about the rest of what education foundation Pratham, English Spanish Turkish
The Constitutional Court has AUSTRALIA: Study Group is doing,’ he said. found their English language • International ESOL • LanguageCert USAL esPro • Coming Soon
ruled in favour of the University Study Group Australia has been According to the Tertiary reading ability was better, with 53
of the Free State’s decision to banned from offering Vocational Education Quality and per cent of 14-year-olds and 60
ditch Afrikaans and make English Education and Training (VET) Standards Authority website, per cent of 18-year-old students
the only medium of instruction. in the country on the grounds it is considering the impact of able to read English sentences.
Chief justice Mogoeng of non-compliance. A separate the VET decision as part of its But in these disadvantaged parts
Mogoeng upheld the decision compliance assessment of its ongoing compliance assessment. of the country, young Indians

ITALY: The director of Rome’s tourism hand to an Arab woman or
The colourful language department, Maria Cristina touch a Chinese person’s
of taxi drivers in Rome is Selloni, designed the program luggage unless they say so’,
something that tourists to help taxi drivers improve said Ms Selloni. Languages
notice as much as they do the the way they deal with foreign make up half of the course,
city’s monuments and food. customers, including ways to with English at the top of the
However, things are about offer basic information in a list, followed by Arabic and Representing 5,000 tests
to change due to a six-week variety of languages.‘ Mandarin.
course in ‘courtesy, hospitality, Someone has to tell the So far around 750 of Rome’s LanguageCert is a PEOPLECERT Group company
language and excellence’, the poor taxi driver that you 6,000 taxi drivers have
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