UK immigration staff to test foreign students' English skills

Concerns that officers will not be trained to assess students' competence as part of a campaign to bar bogus applicants

Read more:   http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/aug/07/uk-student-interviews

Could you pass the TOEFL?

Check out this article and find out!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/english-as-a-second-language-could-you-pass-the-test/2012/07/21/gJQAoCQWcX_blog.html

The importance of developing high levels of speaking proficiency

An excellent explanation of the importance of the importance of speaking and its contribution to the overall TOEFL score.

What do TOEFL scores mean?

This link will help rate students' English proficiency levels based on their TOEFL scores.


http://www.universitylanguage.com/guides/interpreting-your-toefl-scores/

TOEFL and other language proficiency assessments

http://secure.vec.bc.ca/toefl-equivalency-table.cfm

TOEFL is the dominant assessment used in the USA for English language proficiency assessment.
http://www.ets.org/toefl/

IELTS is one assessment of English language proficiency used at the college level, especially in Britain.
  http://www.ielts.org/

Census Statistics:  Majority Minority

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning-the-language/2012/05/census_foreign-born_population.html