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GLOBAL NEWS .

GERMANY:
Increasing numbers of American
students are moving to Germany gl bal
to access the growing quantity
of English-taught programmes at
no cost, the Handelsblatt reports.
‘Germany is among the
top five European countries
attracting Americans who want perspective
to obtain a degree abroad,
especially a masters, according
to the Institute of International
Education.
The lack of fees in Germany The Gazette editorial team’s
comes in contrast to the US: a selection of ELT news from
four-year BA at the partially
state-funded University of around the world
Minnesota costs over $55,000
(€47,600) in tuition fees alone.
Americans overall owe $1.48
trillion in student loan debt.
Germany abolished tuition individual self-defence purposes. Fulbright scholars aims to help of unqualified teachers.
fees in 2014 allowing students Dennis Baron found that the train 10,000 English language ‘Currently, about 50 per cent
to pay less than €300 a semester 1,500 instances of the phrase teachers in north east Nigeria of school teachers in Nigeria are
to cover various administrative in the corpuses overwhelmingly by 2020, local newspapers unqualified.
expenses including enrolment. support this interpretation. report. This affects the pupils and
And the cost of living in the Baron used the Corpus of Early The I Teach English Language the education system’, stressed
country is cheaper than it is in Modern English and Corpus of non-governmental organisation Ogunrinbokun, in the Latest
New York City. Founding Era American English aims to refine the teaching skills Nigerian News.
for his research. of English language teachers in
The language of the Second the country.
Amendment which ensures: It is the brainchild of NEW ZEALAND:
‘...the right of the people to Fulbright scholars Motunrayo Some English language schools
keep and bear Arms, shall not Ogunrinbokun and Milkay in New Zealand are struggling to
be infringed’, has long been a Garba, who said the falling find enough qualified teachers
controversial topic in American standard of education in for newly arrived refugees, the
politics. Nigeria is down to the presence RNZ broadcaster reports.
Some judges and politicians Two cities in the South Island
interpret it to mean all private have highlighted the issue, as
citizens have the right to keep the country prepares to increase
guns for personal use, while its annual refugee quota from
others, now backed by linguistic 750 to 1000 for the first time in
US: data, read it as a right intended thirty years.
A linguist from the University of only to extend to organised Teachers are now expected
Illinois has used two corpuses to military operations. to show both a national
prove that the original meaning teaching qualification and a
of the phrase ‘bear arms’ was for NIGERIA: certificate to teach English as
organised military, rather than An organisation set up by two a second language, according

TURKEY: Party (CHP) presidential not currently have the
Turkish politician Muharrem candidate, speaking during opportunity to study their
Ince failed to become the a rally in the Kurdish town mother tongue at school.
new President after having of Diyarbakir, said that Opportunities for them
used multilingualism children at school would be to learn the language
to build support for his taught Turkish as a formal in everyday life are also
opposition party against language, followed by a limited: Kurdish signs, for
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s language spoken at home, instance, were replaced with
AK Party, according to such as Kurdish, Arabic or Turkish ones in some of the
the Rudaw Kurdish media Circassian. country’s cities last year.
network. Ince also highlighted Ince lost the electoral race
The Republican People’s that Kurdish children do against Erdogan on June 25.

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