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ZAMBIA: KOREA: education for South Korean According to the Education
Five hundred Zambian teachers Local teachers are urging the students remains questionable.” Ministry, Korean families spent
are to be sent to teach English in Seoul Metropolitan Office of SMOE Superintendent Cho an estimated 18.6 trillion won
the island of Madagascar, African Education (SMOE) to abandon Hee-yeon announced the plan ($12.5 billion) on private classes,
Daily Voice reports. plans to recruit 90 new native to recruit teachers from native including English language
With an oversupply of teachers speaker teachers for the Korean English-speaking countries in courses, in 2017.
in the country, the initiative capital’s elementary schools. April, as part of efforts to improve
announced by Quality Education “It costs a lot to hire native the quality of English education at
in Zambia is designed to provide English teachers,” Kim Hong-Tae, public schools, and ease the reliance UK:
employment for “this vital human policy chief at the Seoul branch on private language education. A Saudi Arabian student studying
resourse,” reported Director Aaron of the Korean Teachers and Schools with foreign teachers English in Brighton on a student
Chansa. Education Workers Union told report high levels of satisfaction visa has been sentenced to 20
Chansa also tried to calm the Korea Herald, adding, “but among teachers and students, but months for armed robbery. He is
fears about the selection how qualified the teachers are their impact on student progress expected to be deported at the
procedure by promising it would and how much they help English remains unclear. end of his sentence.
be “transparent” and said he Ibrahim Aloqaybi pleaded
was optimistic that the teacher guilty, along with another two
‘exportation’ procedure would be perpetrators, of stopping the victim
speeded up. and forcing him at knifepoint to
Zambian teachers are already draw out £200 from a cashpoint
working in the Seychelles under a MICHAEL PREWETT/UNSPLASH machine. The victim is reported to
similar programme, where they are be traumatised by the event.
doing well, according to Chansa. At his trial in January,
He urged teachers selected for Aloqaybi’s lawyer, Ben Squirrel,
the Madagascar project to “work described him as someone, “fairly
hard” so that other countries naïve, who came to this country
would also ask for teachers from with good intentions to study
Zambia. English,” but had fallen in with
the wrong crowd. His family are
Korean children in school. said to be devastated.

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