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Over the last couple of years, we have helped hundreds of medical professionals develop their language skills and prepare for the OET test. We are running wo

Yvonne, a doctor from China, popped in this afternoon with coffees. She recently recently passed OET, the Occupational English Test so we asked her some questions about the approach she took. Why OET? “I’m a doctor from China and am working in New Zealand in a research positio

Write and Improve Learner Orientated Assessment is the sort of assessment that happens in class and by teachers all the time and so rather than resulting in a formal assessment report, it feeds directly into the learning that is going on right at the moment. We really like “Write

  What is the Occupational English Test? Occupational English Test is an international English language test that assesses speaking, reading, listening and writing skills of healthcare professionals. The key benefit over IELTS is that it is contextualised around communication skill

“What stopped me ever liking the job was because I was not there because I wanted to be there: I was there because I couldn’t choose the job I wanted” (Martin) “Get anything that paid money, whether it was cleaning or anything. Just do it and get a job” (Gill) “Jealousy. I could do the job

Speaking skills are core business. For many businesses, effective speaking makes as much, if not a more, significant contribution to how well an employee operates in the workplace as reading and writing. For example, a security guard needs to be able to understand their si

BULATS is an internationally recognised assessment of workplace language skills. The test hasn’t been widely used by New Zealand businesses but we can see it working really well for organisations hiring employees from overseas or multi-nationals who want a quick, reliable langua