(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 ...

Two young Sri Lankans from Dunedin make a food documentary ...

And it may be true that this and other factors played a part in this disappointing outcome. This is a very complex problem. However, one of the factors that received almost no attention is mother ...

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 ...

However, the phrase “mother tongue education” was not mentioned in her speech. In a recent article on News24, Prof Kathleen Heugh, a South African who is currently Associate Professor of Applied ...

MANILA, Philippines — A measure that will discontinue the use of the mother tongue as a medium of instruction from Kindergarten to Grade 3 lapsed into law on Thursday, October 11. Republic Act ...

10 000 protesters march against Bela Act, demanding the protection of Afrikaans education and mother-tongue rights.

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 ...