Multilingual Education and India

Dear MLE friends The attached paper Benefits of linguistic diversity and multilingualism has an European focus but it has some Indian flavour to it as Prof Rajesh Sachdeva of CIIL was a co-author. An interesting element is that the economic factor in MLE planning is getting far more attention than I have ever seen in other MLE related papers.

Dear MLE interest group, There is progress from the United Nations General Assembly in stating the fundamental right for Indigenous People groups to have education in their mother tongue.

Dear MLE friends, Soon you will hear about an MLE conference in India in February, but below is one in Thailand some of you might be interested in.

Dear MLE friends. The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) in collaboration with CIIL brought out an interesting publication titled: "Vital Voices: Endangered Languages and Multilingualism". Below you can read more about the content. The distributor for India is CIIL. You can contact CIIL through S.B. Biswas at < biswas@ciil.stply.soft.net >.]

Dear MLE friends. The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) in collaboration with CIIL brought out an interesting publication titled: "Vital Voices: Endangered Languages and Multilingualism". Below you can read more about the content. The distributor for India is CIIL. You can contact CIIL through S.B. Biswas at < biswas@ciil.stply.soft.net >.]

Dear Interest group, An other conference of interest.

Dear MLE Interest Group, India Today had recently some interesting topics on education in India . In October there was a rather critical report on SSA. Last week they had an item on education in the metros. Even though it does not touch on language I think many of you would be interested in the report on which this article was based.  You can download it from http://www.indiatodaygroup.com/itoday/20061127/