28/09/2007

English a must for Immigrants

Under the government’s new points system ‘Highly skilled’ migrants have had to learn English since December 2006 but now the necessity to learn English is being extended to ‘skilled’ workers. They will be expected to speak, write and understand English to the equivalent of GCSE grade A to C by passing an internationally recognised test or showing they have a university degree from a course taught in English. There were 96,000 skilled migrant entries last year, of which around 35,000 would not have passed an English-speaking test, according to government sources.

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