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The partnership between ETS and Passage was covered in Toronto’s National Newspaper yesterday. The reporting includes this interesting bit about the early days of Passage: “But after the Canadian government pulled back on foreign student visa approvals and cut immigration levels in 2024, Mr. Basiri needed a new strategy. He assembled financial backing to buy […]

I’ll be gabbing about exam security at the Exam Security Summit in a few days time.  Specifically, I’ll be talking about test center security.  Regular readers know that this is a favorite topic of mine nowadays. In the English testing space, most of the high stakes players have finally digitized. This eliminates a raft of […]

IDP Education has published an annual report for the 2026 financial year.  There is some interesting news regarding IELTS.  Specifically: 1.195 million IELTS tests were delivered by IDP in the year, a decline of 8% compared to the previous year. More specifically, IELTS volumes are down 22% in India and down 3% outside of India. […]

Now available is the fourth volume of LANGUAGECERT’s “Certifying quality in assessment & learning: Research and validation at LANGUAGECERT.”  It collects research published by LanguageCert between 2024 and 2026.  The editors are Leda Lampropoulou and David Coniam. I think it was published this month. Or maybe at the end of last month. This is an […]

Students can now use Duolingo English Test scores when applying for scholarships from the DAAD German Academic Exchange Service. This will make life easier for students. An increase to the range of available options always does. Readers interested in the business of English testing must understand the continuing growth of this particular test. I still […]