The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education announced it has selected the British Council as a candidate to administer the next English speaking test for public junior high school students in the ...

What are some of the strategies you can use to prepare yourself for an English speaking test? We spoke to Aussie teacher Gwendolen (Gwen) Warnick from RMIT University to find out more. There are a ...

Students headed to nearly 200 testing sites on Nov. 27 across Tokyo to take the first English speaking test with the results forming part of the entrance exams for metropolitan high schools. The aim ...

Junior high school students in Tokyo sit a mock English-conversation test in September 2018. (Photo courtesy of the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education) TOKYO -- The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of ...

Canadian immigration law requires Irish people to undergo an English proficiency test to gain permanent residency - they aren't happy about it Young Irish immigrants in Canada have expressed their ...

An Irish vet with degrees in history and politics has been unable to convince a machine she can speak English well enough to stay in Australia. Louise Kennedy is a native English speaker, has ...

Language tests introduced by the government to restrict immigration are stopping the NHS from recruiting foreign nurses – including highly qualified native English speakers. Growing nursing shortages ...

Students wait for the start of a metropolitan high school entrance examination, in this file photo taken at Hibiya High School in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Feb. 24, 2017. (Mainichi) The Tokyo ...

Louise Kennedy, an Irish equine veterinarian, has been denied Australian visa as the voice recognition system judging the proficiency of her native language - English - handed her a fail in the oral ...