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GLOBAL NEWS .

EGYPT:
The Egyptian Government
has confirmed that, from this
month, EFL will form part of gl bal
the kindergarten curriculum
for 4-6 year olds, the Egyptian
Street reported.
Minister of Education, Tarek
Shawky, said that the new system
aims to ensure that young students perspective
master Arabic while acquiring
Basic English by the time they go
to primary school, according to
the local press. The Gazette editorial team’s selection
Arabic will remain the main of ELT news from around the world
medium of education in state
schools following the closure last
year of the bilingual experimental
schools. Also on the agenda is a May for possession of more than GREECE: JAPAN:
second foreign language, to be 200 grams of marijuana. Since Farzad Kamangaris is an unusual The Education Ministry of Japan
introduced in the first year of his release he has reportedly been language school in Greece which is planning to introduce English-
elementary education. working as a police informant. also offers interpreting and speaking Artificial Intelligence
The new system will also Police officers identified the translating services in Greek, (AI) robots in schools to improve
incorporate technology with suspected murderer from logs English, German and Farsi, the Japanese students’ weak oral and
internet access promised in over on the teacher’s phone showing Info Migrants reported. written English, the South China
2,000 schools. evidence of drug disputes. The business is run by five Morning Post reported.
political refugees from Iran and A pilot project costing around
AUSTRALIA: Turkey with a variety of skills. 250 million yen (£1,700,000)
A young Australian man has It offers the language courses at will be launched next spring in
received a whole life sentence just one euro per hour. 500 primary and middle schools
after being found guilty of killing Among the students, who throughout the country and aims
a Korean English language student are mainly young refugees and to be fully implemented within
in Brisbane in 2013, The Australian migrants keen on starting a new two years. Also on the list study,
press report. life in Greece, there are a good apps and online conversation
The victim of the random attack, number of locals. sessions with native English
who had moved to Brisbane just six Iranian Ribouar Kobadi, who speakers.
TAIWAN: weeks before her gruesome death, is the ‘heart and soul of the At present English classes are
Two people have been arrested was beaten so badly she drowned project’, had a children’s rights compulsory for Japanese students
in the case of a Canadian English in her own blood. organisation in his country, and aged 12-15. However, the starting
teacher brutally murdered The murderer reportedly was forced to leave in 2012. age will be lowered to primary
in Taiwan, The Taiwanese testified he was possessed by a The aim of Farzad Kamangaris level in 2020.
News reports. demon when he attacked the school, which currently The move comes as recent data
The teacher’s dismembered body woman on her way to work. takes place in a tiny Athens showed that Japanese students
was found by police at a riverside He admitted killing her but apartment, is to become a more overall scored the lowest in Asian
park in New Taipei last week. pleaded not guilty to murder, as comprehensive cultural centre. in the Test of English as a Foreign
The teacher’s dog, who appears ‘mental illness left him unable to According to Kobadi, the Language (toefl), according to
to have been injured in the attack, control himself’. group of teachers would TECH2.
led the police to the murder scene. ‘I was kinda waiting for it my appreciate if someone could Some primary and middle
An African-American man whole life to kill someone (…) and help, ‘even with supplying schools in the country have
is suspected of committing the on the night of the murder, I just books’. Meanwhile children already turned to technology
offense, while a younger Taiwanese- woke up randomly and did it, ‘the under 14 can access the school’s to boost English teaching,
Canadian man who works as a man told the press. language classes for free. aware of the lack of qualified
promoter for a Taipei nightclub, Medical reports from three teachers as well as the scarcity
is believed to have assisted the psychiatrists revealed that the of cash to hire properly trained
alleged murderer purchase two murderer showed no signs of language assistants.
machetes which are thought to be schizophrenia at the time of An official of the education
the murder weapons. the attack and only developed ministry has reportedly said that
A third suspect, an Israeli- the mental illness afterwards, AI robots ‘are just one example
American tattoo artist is still at according to the Brisbane Supreme of the trial’ and they ‘are planning
large. Court. other measures, such as using
The ill-fated teacher’s criminal The Australian killer will remain tablet apps and having online
records reveal he was arrested in behind bars at least until late 2033. lessons with native speakers.’

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