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Rupert Murdoch ‘denied’ in Asia ELT broadcast contract
Singapore to scrap language test for foreign maids; Insider trading charges in Global Education schools sale; Rwanda ‘failing’ to lure ELT mentors from Kenya; British Council’s return to Libya announcedSky News, part-owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, below, has lost its bid to run the Australian government’s international news and English language teaching broadcasting service after ministers cancelled a controversial tender process last month. The government said that the $230m Australia Network tender should be abandoned and the contract awarded permanently to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the state broadcaster that has been running the service since 2001.
published date:Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:02:31 GMT