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Encounters with the real lived spaces of the TESS-India MOOCs
29 January 2018The OU's Dr Simon Cross discusses the impact that meeting some of the 40,000 TESS-India MOOC participants has had on him
TESS-India Boost Teacher Mentoring in Odisha
26 January 2018Save the Children's Dr Sandhya Paranjpe describes the 'paradigm shift' Teacher Educators experienced as a result of the TESS-India Programme
Catalysing the Teaching-Learning Process in Vaishali (Bihar)
19 January 2018Dr Sunita Singh, former TESS-India State Representative for Bihar, shares her teacher mentoring experiences in India
Don’t sacrifice good education for poor EMI
15 January 2018A change of focus in many schools that teach through English could lead to better student learning outcomes, suggests the British Council.
What can development learn from venture capital?
12 January 2018As part of our #OpenInsights series, former Senior DFID India Education Adviser, Colin Bangay, applies a venture capitalist framework to TESS-India
English medium policy should not mean ‘English only’
8 January 2018By Dr Anna Riggall. Local languages can complement and support EMI in the classroom. Partnerships are required to achieve both learning and language goals of education.
Studying teachers' use of language in Indian low-cost English medium schools
18 December 2017By Dr Lina Adinolfi. Teachers in Indian low-cost English medium schools shift languages to enhance student understanding but children rarely have opportunities to speak either language in lessons.
Ghana’s teachers need permission and support to incorporate local languages into EMI teaching
11 December 2017By Kimberly Safford. Teachers in Ghana recognise the difficulties caused by using only English but feel constrained from adopting more flexible approaches.
Great opportunities to support EMI with multilingual practices
4 December 2017The Open University, British Council & the Education Development Trust (EDT) has been examining the impact English as the medium of instruction (EMI) can have on teaching & learning
How can children in low- and middle-income contexts learn more easily when English is the medium of instruction?
28 November 2017There has been a strong push towards universal primary education. But can we make it easier for children to understand in lessons?
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