A stressful time for millions of Chinese just got over. The gaokao, China’s university entrance exam, was held in early June and the results are just out. This year, more than 10.31 million students...

The furore in London over the phrase “whiter than white” takes me back more than 60 years to an incident in the lodgings I shared with five or six English boys. We were in our teens, I being the y...

Communication holds the key to success for any business and English skills are essential for that, professionals said at a conference in the city on Thursday. International Conference on English Learn...

A 61-year old primary school run by a Christian missionary voluntary organisation will be upgraded to a full-fledged ICSE school to meet the demands for English medium education among residents of Beh...

A group of boys and girls from economically disadvantaged families, many of them first-generation learners, have been selected for a global microscholarship initiative that aims to teach them English ...

Amit Shah’s clarification about not seeking Hindi’s imposition but only its adoption as a “second language after one’s mother tongue” has divided academics, with many seeing even the toned-d...

English cricket correspondents are generally very loyal to Joe Root’s team, but they can turn vicious when they feel someone has let down the side. Spare a thought then for the poor Joe Denly, who d...

Some words can’t be translated easily. But they can cross national borders, lose their original context along the journey, assume different meanings and crop up in unlikely places.This week, Chancel...

No one is perfect. All of us must have some memories of misbehaving in class; some no doubt revel in them. But no one would recall being rewarded for it. Yet, some deserved to be; such are the results...

Starting this year, ISC students will have to do project work in English language and literature.English is taught as a first language in every ISC school. The two project work papers, of 20 marks ea...