Multilingual Training Research Articles

The Gambro system for home daily dialysis.

Safety and reliability have been the main emphasis when developing our system for home daily dialysis. The AK 95 is part of a comprehensive system of appropriate products consisting additionally of a silent water treatment module, an ultrafilter, and a range of dry disposables for dialysis fluid preparation and disinfection. The dialyzer can be selected from a family of synthetic, biocompatible filters, both low and high flux. To complete the system, a modern data management tool for online or off-line surveillance and multilingual training manuals in both conventional format as well as animated software are available.

Multilingual Educational Reform and Teacher Training in Ethiopia

Ethiopia has only recently emerged from decades of brutal and socially taxing civil war. The new government is a coalition faced with creating a modern pluralist nation-state upon an historical foundation of totalitarianism. Education generally, and language policy more specifically, continues to be one of the most contentious factors on the Ethiopian social and political scene. In a country with 82 distinctly different languages and ethnic groups, this is no small matter. After enduring centuries of rule by Amharic speaking 'Northerners', new regional authorities have elected to purge the Amharic language from the teaching curriculum, in favour of local languages for the primary years, and English in the secondary schools. The result has been one of the most dramatic attempts to reform a modern educational system ever undertaken, entailing the translation and publication of massive quantities of textbooks, the redeployment of former staff and teaching resources, and the development of new regional and lo...