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UK: On 31 March, the Ministry of a “minister of religion”. world using Canadian curricula, ZIMBABWE:
Language school association Education issued a further decree Changes may also be according to The Conversation. Around 350 Zimbabwean
English UK, supported by the that all educational institutions introduced for student visas. The students were stranded in Wuhan
Tourism Alliance, has persuaded must shift completely to the use of gov.uk website states that – epicentre of the coronavirus
the Local Government global distance learning until the end of “students will be covered by the ONTARIO.CA (Covid-19) outbreak and China’s
Association (LGA) to include the academic year. points-based system,” including largest university city. They were
language schools in the businesses EU national students. Applicants running out of food and their
sectors eligible for relief from local for UK student visas will need to mental health was suffering, with
property taxes, known as business WIKIMEDIA “speak English” and “support the cash-strapped government of
rates. themselves during their studies in the southern African nation
At the beginning of the current perspective the UK”. unable to help.
crisis, Rishi Sunak, the British Ontario Premier Doug Ford The Zimbabweans, some of
Chancellor of the Exchequer (as whom were at the Wuchang
the Finance Minister is known), The Royal Academy Ajman, CANADA: University of Technology, were
introduced relief from these taxes Gazette news editor Matt Salusbury’s UAE was one of the schools A “confidential” plan by the JAPAN: confined to their dormitories for
for the hospitality industry, but that closed early for holidays government of Ontario Premier English teaching assistants in almost two months. Most of them
despite lobbying had thus far selection of ELT news from Doug Ford proposes slashing Japan’s state school sector expect were normally reliant on part-
failed to extend them to English education funding, while at the to be out of pocket following the time jobs to support themselves
language schools. British taxes on around the world UK: same time increasing revenue by closure of all state schools but were unable to work under
commercial property are the A command of English “at the recruiting more international nationwide since the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown.
highest in the developed world required level” is a criteria for students to its schools – at fees of March to prevent the spread of However, the Chinese Deputy
and about twice as high as the schools are legally required to funding for better connectivity teaching English to primary work visas required for all up to CAD $12,000 a year, the coronavirus. Ambassador to Zimbabwe advised
international average, according ensure that these students “can and more school translators to be school children at primary schools immigrants – including EU Toronto Star in revealed January. At the beginning of the at the time that it would be in the
to a report produced by a participate meaningfully and included in the Covid-19 stimulus within Kutupalong Refugee Camp nationals – in the proposed post- The government of the shutdown, teachers were still best interests of Zimbabwean
parliamentary committee earlier equally in educational programs” package, the New York Times and its Camp Extension Number Brexit “points-based immigration” Canadian province has been expected to turn up at school, students to remain in China
his year. and are also obliged to reports. 4, both of which also receive input system, effective from 2021. embroiled in a long-running even though their students had rather than be evacuated back
Huan Japes, membership communicate with parents in a from the VoA Learning English Under the new system, industrial dispute with its teachers been sent home. “Dispatch ALTs” home. Measures were put into
director of English UK, said, “We language they can understand. trainers. introduced by British Home over issues including class sizes, – supply language teachers, mostly place to ensure they received
are delighted that English A report in the New York Times, BANGLADESH: The project in Teknaf follows a Secretary Priti Patel, the minister chronic underfunding of schools native speakers recruited via the masks and they were tested
language schools have been however, found that the ability to English teachers from the Voice of shorter, month-long VoA training responsible for immigration, all and the imposition of compulsory JET exchange programme – were regularly. Food and supplies were
included by the LGA in the list of communicate with families varied America (VoA) Learning English course for English language applicants will require 70 points e-learning as a substitute for some unsure how much they’d be paid. dropped off at their doors. Wuhan
properties considered to fall widely from state to state, with service are providing teacher teachers, organised in March last for a UK work visa. face-to-face lessons. Some schools said they would not has now discharged its last Covid-
within the scope of the relief, and some districts in California using training in a year-long project year, for 100 English teachers in a Being a national of a designated The proposed plan builds on pay anything for the days they 19 patient from hospital, and
we are very grateful to the software which enables teachers based in a refugee camp in Teknaf, Rohingya refugee camp in Cox's “majority English speaking Ontario’s 2015 Strategy for K-12 were sent home, others were told Hubei province has been declared
Tourism Alliance for helping us to to send texts in multiple Bangladesh. The project aims to Bazar. country” (as specified by the International Education, whose they were entitled to 60 per cent low-risk.
achieve this result. languages, while one county in help the Rohingya, a Muslim government) gets you 10 points, “goals” include increasing of their salary.

Dennis Tesolat, chair of the
Mississippi had only one Spanish minority fleeing persecution in UAE: there’s another 10 points each for recruitment of international General Union, told the Japan
neighbouring Myanmar.
having a “degree taught in
translator for 42 schools, and
students into its schools (from
WIKIMEDIA COMMONS translation of lesson plans was instructors from the US-based The lives of teachers at English” and “passing an English 19,000 in 2015). Times that Dispatch ALTs should WUCHANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
The
language
English
taking up to ten days.
language test,” such as Ielts.
international schools in the
take these issues to the Labour
The government also aimed to
Standards Bureau.
No guidance has been given for
develop “pathways” to encourage
For schools offering online
United Arab Emirates were
VoA global radio and satellite TV
station, and news website, are
language levels. Under the
international graduates of its high
Teachers in Japan’s private
lessons, ELLs also present a
disrupted by the announcement
challenge: these students are less
schools are also feeling the pinch.
likely to have access to a
higher education in Ontario, and
required level on the CEFR is B1
close on 8 March for four weeks,
teachers, who at the end of their
to combat the spread of
to sell the province’s curriculum
Some schools are dropping
for the “general” category and for
computer or Wi-Fi. Some school training a total of 76 English on 3 March that all schools would current work visa rules, the schools to go on to further or eikaiwa English conversation
course will become teacher-
districts have distributed laptops, trainers, training another 5000 coronavirus. “entrepreneurs”. A “sportsperson” abroad. There are now 125 classes, as many students cancel Wuchang University of
while in others children are English teachers. During the final weeks of the only requires C1, rising to B2 for international schools around the lessons to avoid coronavirus risk. Technology
following classes on their parents’ The trainees are already shutdown, “deep cleans” of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer mobile phone. schools took place, while students
Rishi Sunak The National Education were taught via distance learning.
Association, which represents HAI DO/VOA Most expatriate schoolteachers newsinbrief. from Gazette news editor Matt Salusbury
teachers, is lobbying Congress for – a considerable proportion of the
US: Gulf State’s teaching workforce – CHINA: A recent GIBRALTAR: The QATAR: The Ministry NEW ZEALAND: INDIA: ISRAEL: Objections
English Language Learners had already made plans to travel survey of Chinese Chamber of of Justice’s Judicial Lianne Dalziel, Mayor The Karnataka to the teaching of
(ELLs) have hit the headlines in PIXABAY to visit family. But the schools students currently Commerce is and Legal Services of the City of Development “secular” subjects,
Authority has sent
offering free English
centre has recently
overseas found that
Christchurch, has
including English, in
the American press as teachers returned on a week that should 87 per cent were classes to the non- started English for apologised to a group a letter to the schools serving the
struggle to help them learn at have been part of the school worried about being English speaking Law courses for of visiting relatives of Education Minister ultra-Orthodox
home following the nationwide holiday. Many teachers were infected by Covid-19, staff of member “researchers” and victims of the 2011 of State, demanding communities have
closure of schools. VOA Learning English trainer reluctant to travel abroad during followed by impact companies. They will legal specialists from earthquake. The the withdrawal of the apparently been
collapse of one
across various
on studies (73 per
lifted. Al Monitor
be able to take part
licence for an English
ELLs make up nearly ten Anna Matteao demonstrates the unexpected weeks off work, as cent), and the inability in one 45-minute government agencies building killed 29 medium school which news website reports
percent of the 55 million children a classroom exercise on they feared they would be unable to return to China (66 English lesson a of the Gulf state. The English language threatened to fine that English will be
currently out of schools, Some US ELLs are taking phonetics at the Kutupalong to return due to flight per cent); 63 per cent week. Priority will be Qatar News Agency students – mostly from students using the introduced “if there is
according to PBS Newshour. US lessons on parents’ phones refugee camp cancellations. said that they were given to “frontline, reported that courses Japan – who were state language, a demand from
not satisfied with the customer-facing would focus on studying in a sixth- Kannada. The school parents”. This
actions of their host staff” in customer drafting legislation, floor language school. told News Minute compromise follows
country, and 86 per service or hospitality regulations, resolutions A 2012 inquiry found the warning was sent the failure of attempts
cent said they would roles, according to and Memoranda of the building’s structure out “by mistake” to deny state funding
prefer to return to the Gibraltar Understanding in did not meet safety and has since to schools that refuse
China to feel safer. Chronicle. English. standards. been “rescinded”. to teach English.
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