Literature is not about writing love poems – Times of India
Bangalore: Nonagenarian litterateur L Basavaraju feels literature is not about writing love poems, but striving for the betterment of human dignity. He’s also thoroughly disappointed with present-day polity, administration, writers and literature.
Basavaraju is president of the 75th All India Kannada Literary Convention (Sahitya Sammelan) in Chitradurga in early 2009. His contribution to Kannada literature has won him many awards, including the Karnataka Sahitya Academy Award, Central Sahitya Academy Award and the Pampa Award.
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Indian English teachers to be hired in public schools – JoongAng Daily
In a bid to get more native English-speakers in English teaching jobs at Korean public schools, the justice and education ministries yesterday announced that Indians with an English-related college degree and teacher’s license will soon eligible for the positions.
So far, the Education Ministry has hired native English teachers from countries where English is the mother tongue – the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa.
Read the complete news here: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2899155
The Teaching Paradox – Inside Higher Ed
SAN FRANCISCO — A new survey of faculty members in English and foreign languages will challenge some assumptions about how and why women and men are not promoted at the same levels or feel the same satisfaction in academe.
The Modern Language Association has yet to release its “associate professor survey,” which, notwithstanding its name, included both associate and full professors. But professors involved in the report, due out soon, revealed some of the key findings Sunday at the MLA’s annual meeting:
- On every measure of job satisfaction, men are more satisfied than women in English and foreign languages.
Read the complete news here: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/29/gender
Non-Natives Can Become English Teachers – The Korea Times
Non-native English speakers from India and other countries that use English as an official language will be able to teach at public schools from next year.
The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Justice said Sunday the government is opening the door for English teaching positions wider to secure more foreign English teachers at primary and secondary schools nationwide.
The government has so far allowed English teacher assistant jobs at public schools only to native-English speakers who had completed more than two years of their college courses; and the nationality of the eligible applicants was limited to seven countries ? the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Ireland.
Read the complete news here: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/12/117_36881.html
Learning to teach English – The Star
BESIDES being a rewarding career, teaching English can take you places, literally – you may get the chance to live and work abroad.
Those who wish to learn the nuts and bolts of teaching English can check out CELTA, an internationally recognised teaching qualification offered by the British Council in Kuala Lumpur.
Speaking at a media briefing in KL recently, Tricia Thorlby, the British Council Malaysia’s ELT projects and business development manager, said CELTA is an initial qualification for people with little or no previous teaching experience.
Read the complete news here: http://thestar.com.my/education/story.asp?file=/2008/12/28/education/2856166&sec=education
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