(Photo: iStock) New: You can now listen to articles. SINGAPORE: Every year, roughly one in five of Singapore’s secondary ...

The push for mother-tongue-based Bilingual Education in South Africa is a welcome step, but for it to be effectively implemented there must be alignment between educational policy, school curricula, ...

There are many identities that I’ve embraced over the years: journalist, new host of a podcast show, an aunt, and being an ...

As expected, the enactment of Republic Act No. 12027, which discontinues the use of mother tongue as a medium of instruction from kindergarten to Grade 3, drew a howl of protest from mother tongue ...

The passage of Republic Act No. 10533 in 2013, requiring the use of mother tongue as medium of instruction from Kindergarten to Grade 3 and even up to Grade 6 was a cause for celebration. It aligned ...

Launched recently, the Empowered2Teach (E2T) Mother Tongue Syllabus comprises six comprehensive and age-appropriate themes which are Diri Saya (About Me), Keluarga Saya (My Family), Pekerjaan ...

A NEW law has been enacted, discontinuing the use of the mother tongue as the medium of instruction for students in Kindergarten through Grade 3, thereby shifti ...

What went wrong? The consensus among education experts, even before the passage of the law removing the mother tongue policy, was that DepEd was simply ill-prepared to implement it on a national scale ...

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ANC Study Group on Basic Education urges the President to promulgate commencement of all sections of the BELA Act with ...

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar urged students to break language barriers and embrace a multidisciplinary education approach ...

The three-language formula is breached by Hindi-speaking states that are complacently soaking up the benefits of their mother ...