Twente opts for English as official language
As of January 1, 2020 University of Twente has become the first university in The Netherlands to make English its official working language after a year of transition.
As of January 1, 2020 University of Twente has become the first university in The Netherlands to make English its official working language after a year of transition.
Business Academy Aarhus bids to boost its outbound mobility programs, as government regulation has resulted in a reduction of EMI courses.
Policy makers should consider alternatives to the exclusive use of English when devising English-taught programs, in favour of a bilingual approach that includes the students’ first language, a white paper released by Oxford University Press argues.
A citizen of Switzerland's fifth largest city has filed an initiative to parliament to ban English at The University of Zurich.
Brazilian HEIs offered more than 1,000 EMI courses in the first semester of 2018 – up from 671 in 2016 – according to a report by FAUBAI and British Council.
UK-NARIC and Oxford EMI have launched a quality accreditation scheme for institutions offering EMI - English as a medium of instruction.
There has been a huge surge in the number of English-taught bachelor’s available in Europe, according to recent research, with the number of these degrees at HEIs in the continent up fifty-fold since 2009.
Discussions at EAIE last week revealed English medium instruction may be helping Asian universities improve their rankings, but students and professors alike say it's not always an improvement to learning and teaching methods.