Erosion of English Skills Threatens Growth in the Phillipines
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A combination of poorer schools and a rise in local dialects has hurt English proficiency in the Phillipines.
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Only one in three schools in England now has compulsory lessons in foreign languages for pupils over 14.
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A three-languages plan passed, but political, ideological, and economic forces will likely keep it from catching on.
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Soft and slow Complacency and incompetence continue to plague a US education system that has fallen well behind other nations, according US Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings.â¦
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As tougher immigration laws make it increasingly harder for foreign students to learn English in the United States, immersion villages, according to experts, have promise beyond South Korea.
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A governmental plan to shift the main language of instruction in the nationa s Russian high schools to Estonian is being viewed with uncertainty and pessimism by principals and teachers, a recent survey by the ...
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The nation cannot afford to waste talent in an era when skills are in short supply.
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American and European schoolchildren are losing ground to countries such as China and India that are adapting faster to changing needs and producing more of the high-skilled workers the 21st century demands, a new report says.
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The amount of official material translated should be cut to encourage people to learn English, Ruth Kelly says.
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With its native tongue losing to English as the global lingua franca, France is fighting back
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Too many school leavers  cannot  read, write or add up properly, large businesses complain.
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School children as young as seven in England will have to learn a foreign language, the government announced Monday after a report said it must try harder to boost the country's poor linguistic skills.
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MANILA : The Philippines will lose out on some 3,000 jobs in Iraq unless it lifts a ban on its nationals working there, a recruitment agency said amid protests by Filipinos desperate to work in the troubled country.
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An increasing number of American parents want their children to be bilingual if not multilingual.
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The Philippines' promotion of Southeast Asia as a compassionate community and itself as a reinvigorated developing economy could prove to be a hard sell when it hosts the region's annual summit this month.
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OTTAWA - It will take aboriginal high school students 28 years to match non-native graduation rates and they&#39;re losing ground, says the auditor general.
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Free English lessons will be targeted at migrants who are poor or socially excluded, under government proposals.