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MBA degrees: Good lessons in bad times
Demand for MBA courses is soaring as potential students aim to fend off the recession by boosting their credentials and improving their career prospects. Stephen Hoare reportsIs a recession the best...
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God in the classroom | Alom Shaha
All science teachers, whatever their specialism, have to deal with questions about God. We should be prepared"Do you believe in God, sir?" I imagine that this is a question that science teachers, like...
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Global migration and language testing in focus
How much language competence do migrants need in order to integrate or become citizens? Many countries ask for a basic command, but what is a fair way to assess that level? Welcome to our special...
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UK immigration demands put pressure on marriage
Concern has been mounting ever since the UK government first proposed that foreign spouses should demonstrate language conpetence before they join their partnersUnder the UK's current immigration...
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Testing assessment to make it fit for purpose
The choice of test type to use in immigration processes is not straightforward. Policy makers need to listen carefully to the advice of professional developersThe outcomes of language tests have...
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Practical language needs lost in the immigration debate
The notion that new arrivals should have some command of the language of their new country appears simple but it exposes very complex issues of identity and equalityLanguage tests have a long record of...
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Test for experts to explain how assessment works
The applied linguistics and testing community must take some of the blame for public and government ignorance about how fair assessment worksIn 2008 Canada's immigration service announced that it was...
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Who tests what: testing regimes
The role that language plays in integration and employment is viewed differently across the main migrant receiving nations. This guide shows the range of approaches to testingCountries track their...
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New Citzen Netherlands: Yasin Karakus
Yasin Karakus, 30, from Turkey reveals how he prepared for life in the NetherlandsFirst language: TurkishIt took me a year and a half to prepare for the test of spoken Dutch as part of the civic...
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New Citizen Australia: Sonu Sharma
Developing her English has given Sonu Sharma from India greater confidence in her new countryFirst languages: Hindi, PunjabiI came to Australia with my husband in 2007 from Punjab in India. My husband...
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Minister urges unsuccessful university applicants to reapply
David Willetts says disappointed teenagers should do work experience or an apprenticeship and apply to university at a later stageThe tens of thousands of students who fail to secure a university place...
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Teshome Gabriel obituary
My friend and mentor, Teshome Gabriel, a leading film theorist, who has died of cardiac arrest aged 70, was an authority in the study of third world and postcolonial cinemas. The third cinema movement...
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Hideously diverse Britain: who speaks up for the girls?
There is something dark happening in the interaction between young men and girls, but who is looking out for the victims?As a radio host, the comedian, actor and producer Angie Le Mar talked her way...
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Alcohol and the State | Radio review
I have never laughed out loud at anything that happened in James I's court. When the court was doing it, it was hilarious; when the poor were doing it, it was tragicAs so often happens on Radio 4, I...
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Trinity Mirror editor counters criticism of Welsh newspaper decline
The study I reported on yesterday about Trinity Mirror's two daily newspapers in Wales, Unholy Trinity: The decline of Welsh news media, has come in for some severe criticism.I cannot be certain that a...
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Michael Gove's schools could improve education for all children | Jennifer...
Free schools could provide a link between school and family, giving disadvantaged children a greater chance of successFree schools – which Michael Gove is currently pushing through parliament – are...
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World Cup effect prompts primary school to ban playground football
Head says pupil behaviour has become more boisterous because of the poor example players set during the tournamentFootball has been halted in a primary school playground amid concerns that children...
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Bill Hope
In 1973, Bill Hope, who has died aged 76, established the first part-time diploma course for youth workers without formal qualifications, at Avery Hill training college, in Eltham, south-east London...
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University budgets slashed by £82m
Higher education body reveals austerity measure for this current financial year will go ahead despite promisesUniversities and colleges are being forced to do without £82m that the government had...
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Paris schools encourage errors
• French schools accused of stifling mental creativity• Science workshops boost accidental inventionsLate in the 19th century, while investigating chicken cholera, Louis Pasteur infected some birds...
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