[lg policy] Edling Digest, Vol 3, Issue 8

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From:  <edling at bunner.geol.lu.se





Today's Topics:

   1. UK: GCSE English language: Welsh unions criticise changes
      (Francis Hult)
   2. Australia: More support needed for first languages (Francis Hult)
   3. Scotland: Gaelic school cannot find head that speaks the
      language (Francis Hult)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:34:12 +0000
From: Francis Hult <Francis.Hult at englund.lu.se>
Subject: [Edling] UK: GCSE English language: Welsh unions criticise
        changes
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BBC News



GCSE English language: Welsh unions criticise changes



Teachers' unions have criticised the Welsh government's decision to
introduce changes to the GCSE English language course without notice.



More prominence will now be given to the exam rather than course work
and a unit is being withdrawn.



Full story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19944747
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:39:08 +0000
From: Francis Hult <Francis.Hult at englund.lu.se>
Subject: [Edling] Australia: More support needed for first languages
To: "EDLING at bunner.geol.lu.se" <EDLING at bunner.geol.lu.se>
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The Australian



More support needed for first languages



Teaching indigenous children in their mother tongue will help lift
literacy rates and school attendance, a federal parliamentary
committee says.



The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Affairs committee has spent
more than 12 months looking into language learning in indigenous
communities.



Its report, tabled in parliament on Monday, made 30 recommendations
and called on federal, state and territory governments to offer
bilingual education programs from the earliest years of learning.



Full story:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/more-support-needed-for-first-languages/story-fn3dxiwe-1226475717085
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:42:59 +0000
From: Francis Hult <Francis.Hult at englund.lu.se>
Subject: [Edling] Scotland: Gaelic school cannot find head that speaks
        the     language
To: "EDLING at bunner.geol.lu.se" <EDLING at bunner.geol.lu.se>
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The Telegraph



Gaelic school cannot find head that speaks the language



Bun-sgoil Gh?idhlig Inbhir Nis ? Inverness Gaelic primary school ? in
the Highlands of Scotland has failed seven times in the last three
years to recruit a Gaelic speaker for the ?48,000-a-year post.



Annika Jansson, a Swedish teacher who has been learning the language,
has covered in an acting role but is now leaving and her only
potential replacement is also a non-Gaelic speaker.



Full story:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9602595/Gaelic-school-cannot-find-head-that-speaks-the-language.html#
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