IELTS is proudly sponsoring the English Australia/IELTS Award for Contribution to Quality in ELICOS through Academic Leadership at the English Australia Awards. The awards, which take place on 16-18 September on the Gold Coast, recognise and celebrate the contribution of individuals and organisations to the ELICOS industry in Australia.

New Canadian migration rules make IELTS even more valuable for people who want to live and work in Canada, with demonstration of language proficiency via an approved test score now a requirement of skilled migration applicants under changes announced by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).

IELTS International is pleased to offer complimentary professional development seminars to ESL teachers in conjunction with various statewide Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conferences this fall. IELTS, a test of English language proficiency, is taken by over one million global test takers each year, and is accepted by over 3,000 U.S. institutions and programs for admissions purposes.

The IELTS Research Committee, comprising representatives of the British Council, IDP Education, and University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, is pleased to announce the awarding of the 2010 Caroline Clapham IELTS Masters Award to Thom Kiddle, for his dissertation submitted to Lancaster University entitled “The effect of mode of response on a semi-direct test of oral proficiency.” The dissertation was supervised by Dr Judit Kormos. In addition, the Committee also issued a commendation for the dissertation of Gerard Seinhorst, also from Lancaster University.

Normal operations have resumed at IELTS test centres at the University of Queensland and IDP IELTS Test Centre Brisbane following recent extensive floods in Queensland, Australia.  Both centres cancelled tests originally scheduled for Saturday 15 January 2011.

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