The Voting Rights Act offers language assistance for voters with limited English proficiency. What can we learn from an Idaho county’s experience offering foreign-language ballots?
Second-generation migrants are usually dominant in English, and third generation are usually monolingual in English.
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Concerns about non-English-speaking migrant populations leading to “parallel communities” are not well founded. Third-generation migrants are typically monolingual in English.
It would diminsh the value of Britain’s multilingualism, promote a monolingual ideology and discriminate against speakers of other languages.
Amid the debate about what languages should dominate at African schools, we’re missing an important point: why do we learn language in the first place?
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There are two functions of language: communication and access to knowledge. Each must be pursued as an objective in its own right rather than being lumped together.
When thinking about academic standards, it’s important to think about the incentives to keep standards high - or low.
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The recent furore about academic standards in Australian higher education – including Monday’s damning Four Corners expose – has the potential to bring not only desperately needed attention, but actual change, to the sector.
International students provide universities with a large chunk of their revenue - but at what cost?
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A new report from the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption says Australian universities have become increasingly reliant on income from fee-paying international students, and is letting academic standards slide for the valuable income stream.