Skills for English: SELT

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What's that? Can you please repeat that? Oh, there's a new edition of our SELT Test Video Series available for the B1 level listening test. We'll listen to a short conversation between two individuals, review the question and potential answers, and select the correct answer. You'll find this video, along with the rest of our SELT Test Prep Video Series, on our YouTube channel - @SkillsforEnglishSELT #SELTBoleTohSkillsForEnglish #UKVIBoleTohSkillsForEnglish #SELT #UKVI #ukvisa #IntlEd #SkillsForEnglish

Ready to build your English vocabulary? We have a new edition of our crossword puzzle like series - What's the Word? The words are taken from our vocabulary lists for levels A1, A2, B1, and B2. These lists only provide examples of the types of vocabulary you could be expected to know for each level. How to play: 1️⃣ There is 1 slide for each level, each slide contains 1 word 2️⃣ Each slide has a series of blank boxes; the number of boxes equals the number of letters in the word 3️⃣ We provide you with the part of speech and definition, you provide the word 4️⃣ There is an answer key on the last slide; try not to peek 5️⃣ Have fun with this! If you're feeling silly, leave a comment using the word in a sentence #SELTBoleTohSkillsForEnglish #UKVIBoleTohSkillsForEnglish #SELT #UKVI #ukvisa #IntlEd #SkillsForEnglish

Ready for another round of UK trivia? In the Netflix series Bridgerton, the society elite spend "the season" in London attending balls and promenading in the park. In what area of London do they live? #SELTBoleTohSkillsForEnglish #UKVIBoleTohSkillsForEnglish #SELT #UKVI #ukvisa #IntlEd #SkillsForEnglish #uktrivia

We have a new edition of our quarterly newsletter - Insights from PSI: The Skills for English newsletter. The newsletter consists of 3 segments: 1) News Analysis; 2) Publication Analysis; and 3) an Interview. Continue reading for an excerpt from Part 3 of this edition, the Interview, where T R Williamson spoke with Sophie Hogan from The PIE. Interested in getting the full edition by email? Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dW8yJwPJ The Past, Present, and Future of UK Universities: An Interview with PIE News An interview with: Sophie Hogan, Reporter & News Editor, The PIE News In the present day, UK higher education has been inundated with policy reports on, for instance, the future of the graduate route visa (by the Migratory Advisory Committee; see Publication Analysis section) and the sustainability of the funding model of UK HEIs (by the Office for Students). Hogan feels, for the busy HEI official, at least one important theme can be taken away. It is an accelerating discourse concerning attitudes towards unethical practices by international student recruitment agents. In particular, the presence of a friction is noted between HEIs and agents, which Hogan suggests might be chalked up to the lack of data available on practices (which is an equally important issue more broadly in UK HE), the power imbalance between prestigious HEIs and small agent businesses, and problems around the principles and payment of commission. Unless the funding model of UK HE changes, the agent-HEI relationship must be one to nurture and solidify.   While a focus on problems may lead to a gloomy outlook, future directions can be identified from insights home and abroad. Hogan very much supports the Migratory Advisory Committee’s proposal for a mandatory ethical framework for recruitment agents, for example. Moreover, insights from Australian universities’ practices, following examples set by UK HEIs too, suggest the future of UK HE might implicate transnational education further; it offers attractive opportunities to circumvent challenging visa and tuition policies, after all. Finally, Hogan notes that the stability of the Irish HE sector, and its efforts to improve accommodation provision amid a recent housing crisis, should offer lessons to UK HEIs. Outsourcing accommodation to providers who are unable to offer affordable options does not help the UK’s stability. Whether past policies and present problems may be overcome for such future stability, however, is another question.

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Looking to brush up on your B1 level speaking skills? Check out the latest edition of our SELT Test Prep Video Series. We'll review the prompt, go over an example of an at level response, and go over ideas to help you create your own response. You'll find this video, along with the rest of our SELT Test Prep Video Series, on our YouTube channel - @SkillsforEnglishSELT #SELTBoleTohSkillsForEnglish #UKVIBoleTohSkillsForEnglish #SELT #UKVI #ukvisa #IntlEd #SkillsForEnglish

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Looking to study in the UK? We're proud to announce that we have received new recognitions of our SELT test to provide you more choices for study, including: 🎓 BPP; London 🎓 Itchen Sixth Form College; Southampton 🎓 UHI - University of the Highlands & Islands; Inverness 🎓 Cambridge Regional College; Cambridge 🎓 University College Birmingham; Birmingham 🎓 LIS: The London Interdisciplinary School; London To see the complete list of schools in the UK and Ireland that accept our test and to learn more about us, click here: https://lnkd.in/dcZ_3keT #SELTBoleTohSkillsForEnglish #UKVIBoleTohSkillsForEnglish #SELT #UKVI #ukvisa #IntlEd #SkillsForEnglish

We have a new edition of our quarterly newsletter - Insights from PSI: The Skills for English newsletter. The newsletter consists of 3 segments: 1) News Analysis; 2) Publication Analysis; and 3) an Interview. Continue reading for an excerpt from Part 2 of this edition, the Publication Analysis, where T R Williamson breaks down a rapid review of the graduate route. Interested in getting the full edition by email? Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/dW8yJwPJ Migratory Advisory Committee Rapid Review of the Graduate Route – the PSI analysis Authors: Prof. Brian Bell (Chair), Prof. Dina Kiwan, Prof. Sergi Pardos-Prado, Dr Madeleine Sumption MBE, and Prof. Jo Swaffield The Rapid Review of the Graduate route visa last month somewhat rapidly backfired on Rishi Sunak, who u-turned on his attempts to curtail its popularity after members of his cabinet tried to reign him in. So impactful was its recommendation to maintain the Graduate route as-is...Elation might have been felt for many reasons by the international higher education community in late May. While the report itself shows signs of positivity for the sector, by preserving an important selling point for UK universities, we at Insights from PSI have identified a few warning signs of varying seriousness that our readers should consider. The first is a notice about the relation between Graduate visa uptake and ranking of university attended...UK universities should beware the possibility of further scapegoating of international students by some politician cherry picking this analysis in the report. A warning more likely to have material ramifications for the sector results from findings about international student recruitment agents. After interviewing many current and former international students, rightly worrying examples of student exploitation through poor agent practice arise...Coupled with citing the 2021 British Universities International Liaison Association (BUILA) statistic that 50% of international students are recruited via agents, the MAC recommend mandatory and ethical oversight of agent practice. Such oversight would involve universities openly disclosing spend on and number of students recruited from agents, as well a government-run agent registration system that encompasses quality controls and monitoring agent practice in conjunction with UKVI and the British Council. Given evidence of student exploitation, perhaps such governmental oversight of agents has been overdue.