Australia: Universities get tough on ESL

[Francis Hult]

Via lg-policy...
 

The Australian December 19, 2007 03:54pm AEDT

 Universities get tough on ESL  December 19, 2007

INTERNATIONAL students, Aborigines and newly arrived migrants face
tougher English language requirements to get into Victorian
universities after institutions complained they were not performing as
well as local students. The Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre has
allowed universities to raise the entrance scores required for
students who have completed English as a second language instead of
English in their final year of school. Secondary school students who
have been in an English-speaking country less than seven years, are
here studying from another country or Aborigines whose first language
is not English are entitled to study ESL, which was previously worth
the same marks as English.

Full story:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22945952-12332,00.html



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