The competition for the 2020 TIRF James E. Alatis Prize for Research in Language Policy and Planning in Educational Contexts is underway but will end soon. All nominations are due tomorrow – October 1, 2019. The 2020 Alatis Prize competition marks the fifth year of TIRF offering the program. For
This year marks the 18th consecutive year TIRF has offered its Doctoral Dissertation Grants (DDG) program to doctoral candidates around the world. With the support of our partners – Cambridge Assessment English, the British Council, and Educational Testing Service, Inc. – along with many individual donors, TIRF has recently completed
Late last year, the Foundation launched the inaugural competition for its TIRF Masters Research Grants (MRG) competition. The program, designed to promote masters-level research and scholarship in Chinese-speaking contexts, drew interest from individuals across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau, and has now resulted in the first class of TIRF
TIRF is set to deliver the first session in its speaker series for members of Chengdu Duoweimingju (DWMJ) Institute of Education, based in Chengdu, China. Via this new area of programmatic activity for the Foundation, TIRF’s Trustees and individuals in its network will provide two-hour presentations and discussion sessions for
Earlier this month, TIRF held its fall Board meeting in Virginia and Washington, DC. As TIRF’s programs and operations are continuing to expand, so, too, does the demands the Foundation’s Board of Trustees faces. Evidenced in the variety of issues TIRF’s Board members covered during its meeting, it is clear
In recent years, there have been many films and stories in which human beings develop or are given super-human powers. I’m thinking about the Avengers, the X-Men, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man, the Star Wars series, Green Lantern, Batman, and Superman. In terms of books about such beings, the Harry Potter series
