This would allow Scottish Ministers to recover the costs of Education Scotland carrying out inspections in independent further education colleges and English language schools.
The committee then unanimously agreed to approve the draft Public Services (Recovery of Expenses in respect of Inspection of Independent Further Education Colleges and English Language Schools) (Scotland) Order 2012.
As Masani points out, India has endured linguistic division of states and language riots, but English medium schools thrive in towns and villages today.
How much is down to low priority that the language has in some English-medium schools, despite being a compulsory part of the curriculum?
Many of the black elite, who send their children to English-speaking private schools or former white state schools, may accept English emerging as the sole national language.
The owner of another supply teachers' agency said schools might have legitimate concerns about English language skills - and that this might be misinterpreted as racism.
Those supporting bilingual education argue that the state's 162, 000 Spanish-speaking pupils achieve more if taught through their first language and that attending an all-English schools would put Spanish-speakers at an immediate disadvantage.
Somali is a close second to English as the most-spoken first language in Moss Side schools.
Statehood or no, there are plans for English-language science and mathematics classes in the island's schools.
Even Europeans are now sending their children to English boarding schools in increasing numbers, mainly to learn the language.
But the change of name comes at a sensitive time in Karnataka, where the government recently went a step further and threatened with closure more than 2, 000 private schools that taught in English, not Kannada, the local language.
Statisticians say this is because of an increase of foreign students at independent schools taking different examinations aimed at those with English as a second language.
Schools are starting to teach English as much as Arabic as a second language.
It has a dedicated foreign-language school with international teachers and touts its English-language teaching skills, the foreign studies of many of its faculty members and its alliances with foreign schools.
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