Korean universities are increasing the number of courses taught in English in a bid to raise their global competitiveness, a key criterion in university rankings. Some students, however, doubt whether ...

South Korea’s top universities have been hell bent on expanding classes that are conducted all in English in recent years amid ever-increasing competition to globalize both their students and ...

Colleges have rushed to provide lectures in English over the past few years, but four out of 10 students in a nationwide survey said they do not understand them, raising questions about the ...

A Georgetown University English professor’s lecture on the cultural and literary significance of Truman Capote’s novel “In Cold Blood” was featured on Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN), ...

Lectures conducted in English have become commonplace at Korean universities in the last few years. It has been reported that universities in Seoul conduct between 20 and 40 percent of their lectures ...

Dr. De Graaf taught at Hope for 44 years, from 1928 to 1972; for 25 of those years he served the department as chair. The son of Dutch immigrants, he grew up in Grand Rapids, where his father ran a ...

It's a Saturday morning, and Zhang Xiuyun from the Dongsi Neighbourhood Committee in downtown Beijing is leaving early for work again. "I have to prepare for my English lecture," said Zhang, who ...

The Annual lecture of the Department of English at Queen Mary is named in honour of Lisa Jardine CBE HonFRS FRHistS, who died on the 25 October 2015, at the age of just 71. Lisa joined the department ...