Multilingual Education and India

Dear MLE interest group, Sheldon Shaeffer was one of the key-note speakers at the Mysore MLE workshop in October 06. He is Director of Unesco Asia and Pacific. He wrote the attached clear and appealing article for the Bangkok post. Even though focussed on Thailand the content is very relevant to India too.

Dear MLE Interest group, Below an encouraging study!

Dear Interest group, It seems the interest in MLE from the international community is still on the rise. Read below about a new task force set up within UNESCO on Languages and Multilingualism. The official Unesco info on that you can find on http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=34836&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html

Dear MLE Interest group, Several of you are involved in advocacy for indigenous people groups. In such cases it is nice to have the back-up of international high level documents.

Dear MLE Interest group, Prof Rajesh Sachdeva of Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL) informed us below of the CIIL response to this discussion.

Dear MLE interest group, For those of you who do not have an Indian newspaper you might not be aware of this interesting controversy in Karnataka, one of the southern states in India.

Dear Interest group, For those who like browsing, Google launched a literacy portal. It is easy to take look: www.google.com/literacy .