NO to Foreign Language Schools! Archive

28/06/2010
Parliament Passes Foreign-Language School Bill

Karine Kalantarian, Hasmik Smbatian The Armenian government pushed through parliament on Thursday its controversial legal amendments allowing the existence of...

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20/06/2010
Political Order? City Hall Bans Concert against Re-Opening Foreign-Language Schools

We Are Against Re-Opening of Foreign-Language Schools initiative has issued a release in which it says that a previously-planned concert...

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18/06/2010
Opposition Mounts to Proposed Foreign-Language Schools in Armenia

A government initiative to re-open foreign-language schools in Armenia after a 17-year ban is generating a heated public outcry. Many...

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14/06/2010
In multilingual Lebanon, Arabic falls behind

BEIRUT (AFP) Lebanon, a tiny, vibrant Mediterranean country, prides itself on its polyglot society but for the country’s youths native...

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11/06/2010
Last Efforts against Re-Opening of Foreign-Language Schools

We are Against Opening Foreign-Language Schools initiating groups is spending last efforts to prevent the adoption of a Government-backed draft...

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11/06/2010
RA NA debates Law on Language: ARFD and Heritage are against

At this moment, in front of the Governmental Conference hall, where the National Assembly is holding sessions, the activists of...

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09/06/2010
Language is a Matter of Security: Arkady Karapetyan

One of the reasons of the uprising in Karabakh was that the Armenians wanted to speak and to listen to...

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08/06/2010
Armenia Ends There, Where Armenian is Not Spoken: Khzmalyan

Armenia ends there, where the Armenian language is not spoken, Armenian film director Tigran Khzmalyan told Tert.am

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27/05/2010
Education Minister’s Initiative is ‘Betrayal,’ Says Hayrikyan Calling on HHK to Recall Him

The opening of foreign-language schools in Armenia is a “very dangerous” and “betraying” step, Head of National Self-Determination Union (NSDU)...

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25/05/2010
Armenia: Fury at Foreign Language School Move

Campaigners say national identity under threat despite government concessions.

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24/05/2010
No Foreign Language Schools in Armenia!

Dear Friends, Many of you have probably noticed that Armenian media currently actively discusses a new initiative by the Government...

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22/05/2010
Initiators of Opening Foreign-Language Schools Lack State-Oriented Mode of Thinking

It would be the greatest disillusion to consider the language as simply a school subject or just a means of...

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20/05/2010
Nefarious changes to the Armenian Language Law

Bury the `Law on Language’ – deeper than the deepest Khor Virab On 20 April 2010 the Armenian Government laid...

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