[color=#FF0000]L’Ecole Européenne de Taipei ouvre une classe de seconde
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En septembre 2009, la Section française de l’École européenne de Taipei (TES) élargit son offre pédagogique en créant une classe de seconde sur le campus de Yang Ming Shan. Les cours seront dispensés par des professeurs certifiés en français avec recours au Centre National d’Enseignement à Distance (CNED) et par des professeurs de la TES en langue anglaise. Les élèves français résidant à Taiwan pourront bénéficier de la prise en charge des frais de scolarité.
L’École européenne de Taipei (TES) accueille 1118 élèves, issus de 57 nationalités différentes. L’intégration de ses quatre sections (française, anglaise, allemande et lycée) lui permet d’offrir des conditions d’étude optimales: bibliothèque, salles informatique, gymnase, cantine, ramassage scolaire… C’est une école ouverte sur son environnement, accueillante et véritablement européenne dans son identité.
[color=#FF0000]The Taipei European School opens a class of second
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In September 2009, the French section of the Taipei European School (TES) will expand its international education by offering a year-long program on the campus of Yang Ming Shan for the first year of high school. The courses will be taught by French-certified teachers associated with the National Center for Distance Learning (CNED) and English language teachers from TES. French students residing in Taiwan can receive scholarship for tuition fees.
The Taipei European School (TES) hosts 1,118 students from 57 different nationalities. The integration of its four sections (English, French, German, and high school) allows us to offer optimal study conditions, including a library, computer room, gymnasium, cafeteria, and school bus. It is a school that is welcoming, open to its environment, and has a truly European identity.
Well I’m thinking more like Catalonian and Romansh and Esperanto…
Okay, okay–there’s only 23. And on analogy with actual EU practice, they could offer translation into the “lesser” tongues–said translations to appear several years afterwards, with lots of mistakes.
It’s interesting. Britain thinks English should be the main EU working language. France thinks it should be English and French. Germany thinks there should be three. The little countries mostly want English only. Spain and Italy could go either way (four or five, or else English only).
Isn’t it sad that a good high school would be opne only to furriners? Back hoem, that’ll create a riot. Of course, I am not saying it is their fault; actually, the European school has no choice: teh MOE forces them to do so.
Was’t it that with the WTO and all thaty jazz foreign schools could open up? I benefited from affordable bilingual education, pity most Taiwanese -and foreign even- kids can’t.
[quote=“Icon”]Isn’t it sad that a good high school would be opne only to furriners? Back hoem, that’ll create a riot. Of course, I am not saying it is their fault; actually, the European school has no choice: teh MOE forces them to do so.
Was’t it that with the WTO and all thaty jazz foreign schools could open up? I benefited from affordable bilingual education, pity most Taiwanese -and foreign even- kids can’t.[/quote]
Native speaking expats who are here on short term contracts don’t really want that; they want a school like back home so their kids don’t fall behind when they return. Local kids need to learn Chinese; the European Schools aren’t ‘bilingual schools’.
sj, about the languages; it’s just political bs. Pretty much anyone who would be involved in governmet speaks either French or English as a second language as a matter of course. A lot fewer speaker Spanish or German.
Well, considering that tuition at any of these places is almost as much as my total salary, I somehow don’t think language-medium will be an issue for me. Unless maybe I can get in on the ground floor of the Taipei Latvian School or something… (There is a Turkish school, but (a) they only study Turkish once a week, and (b) it’s run by a religious cult.)
Somewhere on the AIT website, there’s a cheery note informing Americans that the U.S. government has no obligation to provide their kids with an education. Although not sending them to school in the U.S. could land people in court. Well, used to anyway. (What’s the opposite of a home-schooler? A school-schooler?)
It’s not a contradiction though to say kids must go to school but the U.S. government has no obligation to provide kids with an education. School could be, and I believe is, largely about social conditioning, i.e. learning that for the rest of your life, you’re going to go to a big building every day and do something completely meaningless and soul-destroying because people with more power tell you to do so (so you can then spend the little you make, plus a whole lot on credit, with other people with lots of power).
Yeah, absolutely. I say that as a former teacher and as a former student. School teaches you to tolerate boredom and informs you what your social boundaries are. I’m sure if I were a parent, I’d dump my kid in one so I could go to work, though. Way of the world and there’s not much to be gained by the alternatives.
Believe me, home schooling from me would destroy their souls more thoroughly than school ever could. I don’t know much math, and literature class would focus on stuff like “The Turner Diaries.”
The USA taxes (theoretically) on world-wide income, but its benefits are substantially less global. And does TAS have some sort of official relationship with AIT? That would suggest that the government only intends to help the rich. (No! Say it isn’t so!)
