By Maina Waruru. Barely a year after it published new rules to guide operations of overseas recruitment agencies, the east African country of Tanzania is set to review licenses of the agencies over claims of malpractices. More...
16 janvier 2019
16 janvier 2019
Kenyan universities lose millions in botched TNE bids
By Maina Waruru. Two Kenyan universities have lost a total of $6 million in the past year and a half in a botched bid for international students in the East African region, it can be revealed. More...
16 janvier 2019
Universities team up to teach Russian in Africa
By Maina Waruru. The Copperbelt University in Zambia has entered into a partnership with the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, to begin offering Russian language courses and set up a regional centre for the teaching of the language. RUDN is a state university founded in 1961. More...
16 janvier 2019
Russia in fresh bid to revive HE ties with Africa
By Maina Waruru. The Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia is working on a collaboration program with African universities, with the backing of the Moscow government, that will see Russian culture and language taught in universities on the continent. More...
16 janvier 2019
Lebanese education group invests in Kenya
By Maina Waruru. International schools company Sabis Education Network is opening its first school in Kenya, following a $20 million investment. The school in Nairobi is seen as an attempt to to gain a foothold in Africa, where an appetite of international curriculum at all levels is growing. More...
16 janvier 2019
Aboriginal languages in Canada - Not all people who speak an Aboriginal language at home have an Aboriginal mother tongue
In 2011, almost 213,400 people reported speaking an Aboriginal language at home. While 82.2% of them reported that same Aboriginal language as their mother tongue, the other 17.8% reported a different language, such as English or French, as mother tongue.Among the nearly 38,000 people who spoke an Aboriginal language at home and who reported a different language as mother tongue, 23.5% spoke it most often at home while the other 76.5% spoke it on a regular basis, in addition to the main home language.
The Cree languages (38.5%), Ojibway (14.8%), Inuktitut (7.1%), Oji-Cree (3.7%) and Mi'kmaq (3.5%) were the most reported home languages among the roughly 38,000 people who spoke an Aboriginal language at home but who reported a different language as a mother tongue.
Those aged 34 and under were more likely to report speaking an Aboriginal language at home that was different than their mother tongue. More specifically, it was more common among school-aged children (aged 5 to 14), who may have been learning an Aboriginal language as a second language at school. More...
16 janvier 2019
Aboriginal languages in Canada - Use of Aboriginal languages at home differs by where people live
In 2011, the proportion of people with an Aboriginal mother tongue who spoke their language at home differed based on where they lived. Specifically, people were more likely to speak their Aboriginal mother tongue at home when living in a census subdivision (CSD) with a high proportion of the population whose mother tongue was an Aboriginal language.In CSDs with high proportions of people reporting an Aboriginal mother tongue, most people (96.8%) with an Aboriginal mother tongue spoke that language at home (86.5% most often and 10.3% on a regular basis) (Figure 3).
Conversely, people were less likely to speak their Aboriginal mother tongue at home in CSDs with low proportions of people reporting an Aboriginal mother tongue. In these CSDs, 63.0% of people with an Aboriginal mother tongue reported speaking their language at home (27.7% most often and 35.3% on a regular basis). More...
16 janvier 2019
Aboriginal languages in Canada - Most other Aboriginal mother tongues not the main home language
Among the 50 or so other Aboriginal languages, most of them were spoken at home by between 30% and 60% of the people who reported them as mother tongues. They were generally spoken on a regular basis in addition to the main home language (such as English or French); however, some exceptions are noteworthy. For example, 90.2% of the people reporting Naskapi and 54.8% of the people reporting Tlicho (Dogrib) as their mother tongue spoke it most often at home. More...16 janvier 2019
Aboriginal languages in Canada - Majority of people who reported an Aboriginal mother tongue speak it at home
Among the population reporting an Aboriginal mother tongue, 82.2% also reported speaking it at home: 58.1% spoke it most often and 24.1% spoke it on a regular basis, in addition to the language they speak most often.These proportions differ among the ten most frequently reported Aboriginal mother tongues.
For example, of the roughly 6,000 people who reported Atikamekw as mother tongue, 97.2% spoke it at home (91.7% most often and 5.5% on a regular basis). Similarly, about 95% of the people whose mother tongues were Innu/Montagnais or Inuktitut, and about 90% of those whose mother tongues were Oji-Cree or Dene, spoke them most often or regularly at home (Figure 2).
Although some people reporting an Aboriginal mother tongue did not report speaking it most often at home, many were still speaking it on a regular basis at home. For example, 28.9% of people whose mother tongue was Blackfoot reported speaking this language most often at home, while another 35.2% reported speaking it on a regular basis, in addition to the language they spoke most often. More...
16 janvier 2019
Aboriginal languages in Canada - About one in five people reporting an Aboriginal mother tongue live in Quebec
In 2011, of all people reporting an Aboriginal mother tongue in Canada, the highest proportions lived in Quebec (20.9%), Manitoba (17.7%) and Saskatchewan (16.0%) (Figure 1).In Quebec, the Aboriginal languages most frequently reported as mother tongues were the Cree languages, Inuktitut, Innu/Montagnais and Atikamekw. The main Aboriginal mother tongues reported in Manitoba were the Cree languages, Ojibway and Oji-Cree. In Saskatchewan, the Cree languages and Dene were the most often reported languages. More...
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