MULTIMODALITY AND ENGLISH EDUCATION IN UGANDAN SCHOOLS

Undergraduate dental English education in Japanese dental schools.

Dental schools in Japan are among many worldwide whose medium of instruction is not in English. With advances in science, technology, and communication, the demand for the globalization of professions increases. At present, dental schools in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe have started revising their dental curricula to either include English courses for dentistry or offer a full English dent...

Value-Added in English Schools

Sorting and Choice in English Secondary Schools

This paper focuses on one of the outcomes arising from England’s choice based education system; the extent to which different types of pupils are sorted across schools. Pupil sorting will in turn impact on attainment outcomes, if there are peer group effects operating within schools. We consider three dimensions across which sorting may occur: ethnicity, income, and, for the first time using UK...

Biotechnology Education in Schools

When students deal with Biotechnology in Science or Biology courses at school they get to know a technology that is on the one hand very old – if we think of techniques of making bread or wine – but that on the other hand when we think of genetic engineering for example comprises very new aspects. This “modern” part of biotechnology shows a high potential for solving various problems of our mod...

Gender and Student Achievement in English Schools