Test for teachers kicks off Malaysia's push for English Blog 8

This current event is about test for teachers kicks off Malaysia’s push for English. Malaysian government plans, 70% of children will pass English language exam by 2025. The Malaysian children will participate in a school reading event that will test the reading skills. Malaysia committed itself to ensure that every child will be proficient in English, English teachers were told they must pass a test of English proficiency within two years are removed to other roles.

There are plans to overhaul the education system were announced by the Prime Minister last month. One of the problems was teachers in rule areas have limited command of the language. 70,000 teachers of English will be required to pass a Cambridge placement test five 2015. Testing will start this year and teachers who fail will be required to attend intensive eight-week courses that combine face-to-face training and 30 hours of online instruction per week. Teachers that fail the English language test will be replaced by newly qualified teachers. This gives a chance for retired teachers to come back into the classroom that are qualified. Progress of students will be monitored as part of the government’s target to get 70% of secondary age children passing the English language school exam by 2025.

California’s legislation to track stalls schools learners is also struggling with the English fluency. 59% of secondary school English language learners have been stuck at the same level of proficiency for two or more years. A quarter of California’s public school populations are English language learners.

Also in Brazil, they are trying to boost their English language speaking. A UK private equity firm Actis injected $68m into the CNA schools chain, which has 500,000 students and plans to double capacity by 2018. I figured all these countries are trying to get ahead because the English language is one the best languages to learn, definitely when students are trying to go overseas to school or to live in the near future.

Students from China were deported from New Zealand due to fraudulent eases given by an immigration official. Students were also deported because of fraudulent evidence, including fake English language qualifications.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/oct/16/malaysia-internationaleducationnews