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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 w

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 positi

Work as a police officer is demanding in terms of communication skills – probably more demanding than a lot of  police applicants realise.  Studying at Royal New Zealand Police College is intense and there is Policing and legal knowledge to learn during that t

“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

There is quite a lot of cross-pollination between the workplace literacy world and the world of regular language teaching. A small example of the way our work in the literacy world has enhanced what we do in the regular language school is with spelling. Spelling is important in the workpla

At the end of every input session we teach, we include a 5 minute reflection session in which we encourage learners think about what they have been doing in the session, say what they’ve learnt and think about how they are going to apply that learning at work. Learners get to share their reflectio