When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Macaulayism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaulayism

    Macaulayism refers to the policy of introducing the English education system to British colonies. The term is derived from the name of British politician Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859), who served on the Governor-General's Council and was instrumental in making English the medium of instruction for higher education in India .

  3. English Education Act 1835 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Education_Act_1835

    To remove all doubt, however, Macaulay produced and circulated a Minute on the subject. Macaulay argued that support for the publication of books in Sanskrit and Arabic should be withdrawn, support for traditional education should be reduced to funding for the Madrassa at Delhi and the Hindu College at Benares, but students should no longer be paid to study at these establishments. [6]

  4. Alfred Augustus Levi Caesar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Augustus_Levi_Caesar

    Caesar was born in Southampton, and educated at Taunton's College, at that time a grammar school in that town. He studied geography at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, gaining a double first. He was elected to a postgraduate scholarship in 1936. [1] [2] He then taught for a year at the University of Durham (Newcastle). [3]

  5. History of English - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_English

    Most native English speakers today find Old English unintelligible, even though about half of the most commonly used words in Modern English have Old English roots. [12] The grammar of Old English was much more inflected than modern English, combined with freer word order , and was grammatically quite similar in some respects to modern German .

  6. English studies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_studies

    English studies is taught in a wide variety of manners, but one unifying commonality is that students engage with an English-language text in a critical manner. However, the methods of teaching a text, the manner of engaging with a text, and the selection of texts are all widely-debated subjects within the English studies field. [1]

  7. Multiple choice - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_choice

    Multiple choice (MC), [1] objective response or MCQ(for multiple choice question) is a form of an objective assessment in which respondents are asked to select only the correct answer from the choices offered as a list.

  8. S. R. Ranganathan - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._R._Ranganathan

    Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan [1] (listen ⓘ 9 August 1892 – 27 September 1972) was an Indian librarian and mathematician. [2] His most notable contributions to the field were his five laws of library science and the development of the first major faceted classification system, the colon classification.

  9. Geography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography

    Geography is subject to the laws of physics, and in studying things that occur in space, time must be considered. Time in geography is more than just the historical record of events that occurred at various discrete coordinates; but also includes modeling the dynamic movement of people, organisms, and things through space. [9]