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ESTONIA: Estonia’s Minister of Education, Mailis Reps, announced in May that state secondary school students with high-level English will be able to take Cambridge...
British government under scrutiny over treatment of students in Toeic test scandal
The UK Parliament’s watchdog, the National Audit Office (NAO), has criticised the UK government for its handling of the cases of thousands of international...
Australia mourns Aiia
Aiia Maasarwe was studying English at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, when she was raped and murdered. A 20-year-old man has been charged.
In...
…as ICE rounds up TOEFL test cheats
Agents of US Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) have arrested five US nationals of Chinese origin in connection with an impersonation scam.
The suspects are...
Hundreds held in fake Uni sting…
The ‘University of Farmington’ in Michigan was closed at the end of January when a federal indictment was unsealed, revealing that the institution, operating...
David Graddol: the man who saw the future of English
David Graddol, who died in March aged 66, was a one-man think tank who changed the way the world sees the English language and...
