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to Birgit Grafarund-Watungwa, The UAE hosts the second- coming to study in UAE… It is a middle class children. ‘Students
operations manager for the highest number of university win-win situation for everyone with more socioeconomic
charity English Language branch campuses in the world as you can now complete your disadvantage should be able to
Partners in the town of after China. education and explore future access bilingual education, in the
Invercargill. One of the new And Dubai hosts more than prospects,’ he said. same way as others’, Celaá told
teachers in Dunedin, who has 200 nationalities, with 90 per the Spanish newspaper EL Pais.
been working with refugees cent of its population from SPAIN: Celaá acknowledged problem
for eight years, said that a key abroad. The Spanish prime minister has with the L2 levels of some
challenge was the adult EFL Dr Warren Fox, chief of named Isabel Celaá as the new teachers but pointed out that
students who are not able to higher education for the education minister. Celaá, a ‘not all teachers need to work
read and write in their mother UAE’s Knowledge and Human former English literature professor in both languages’ and it should
tongue. Development Authority, said with a degree philosophy and law, be up to the individual school to
that over 40 per cent of Dubai’s was the education minister in take that decision.
UAE: 30,000 international students the 2009-12 government of the Nearly 100 schools in the
International students in the are enrolled at branch campuses Socialist Party of Euskadi, in the Spanish region of Castilla La
United Arab Emirates will be operated by some of the top Basque Country. Mancha are abandoning their
eligible for a five-year student universities in the world. She implemented the well- bilingual programmes as we
visa in a bid to promote the area ‘We are expecting significant respected trilingual education report on page 6.
as a ‘hub of higher education’ growth in the number of students system.
and to rely less on the country’s During her first month as a
oil and gas sector, according to head of the national education Irekia
the Gulf News. ministry, Celaá has pointed out
Further options which replace that bilingualism cannot be a
the one-year visa term, include ‘mechanism of segregation’ and
a 10-year residency visa for she has promised to work to turn
high-performing students, and this system into a mechanism of
visa extensions after graduation social cohesion.
for students still financially Some of the bilingual
dependent on their parents, Icef programmes in Spain have
Monitor reports. been criticised for privileging

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