{"id":37350,"date":"2018-04-22T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/university-teachers-to-pass-mandatory-english\/"},"modified":"2018-04-24T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T17:34:55","slug":"university-teachers-to-pass-mandatory-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/university-teachers-to-pass-mandatory-english\/","title":{"rendered":"University teachers to pass mandatory English test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to National Broadcaster, RBA, Mutimura said that some university lecturers use English as a medium of instruction in which they are not fluent. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe want to show lecturers that they are the basis of students\u2019 education. Students say that they don\u2019t know English because of their lecturers; they don\u2019t have speaking skills and use it inadequately. That is why we are discussing with university officials so that in the future, for a lecturer to start teaching in University they should first pass English test,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the test will be done at National level to enable lecturers acquire English writing and speaking skills.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mutimura, the move will help address the challenge of students who graduate without English usage skills needed on the job market.<\/p>\n<p>The new move follows a resolution from February 2018 National Leaders Retreat which recommended promotion of quality education including the teaching of English language in all university courses.  <\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the resolution, Mutimura said for the quality of education to be enhanced; students and teachers should well understand the basics of English language.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24881 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fcwsazx-e4a9a-2.jpg\" alt=\"Education Minister, Dr. Eugene Mutimura\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move to enhance quality of university graduates that are as well fluent in English language, the Ministry of Education is planning to introduce a mandatory English test for University lecturers, the Minister of Education, Dr. Eug\u00e8ne Mutimura announced yesterday after the discussions with University of Rwanda\u2019s College Arts and Social Sciences officials at Huye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37350"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37350"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}