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Homegrown English tests in trouble
13/05/13

origin: Homegrown English tests in trouble (http://koreatimes.co.kr)

By Bahk Eun-ji
The Ministry of Education said it will decide on whether to replace the English language section of the annual college entrance exam with the National English Ability Test (NEAT) at the end of this year.
Plans are currently underway to determine the possibility of adopting NEAT as a substitute for TOEIC and TOEFL as well as for the English section of College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT). A total of 36 universities nationwide are already using NEAT scores as a key ...

Employers to be told of TOEIC test cheaters
03/05/13

origin: Employers to be told of TOEIC test cheaters (http://koreatimes.co.kr)

By Bahk Eun-ji
The Education Testing Service (ETS), the administrator of TOEIC and TOEFL examinations, said Friday it will inform companies and prospective employers of the names of those who were caught cheating on the tests.
It said it will make the notification after it obtains their names from police.
According to Seoul’s Gwanak Police Station, 50 people including students from Seoul National, Yonsei and Korea universities, employees of major companies and an announcer of a ...

TOEFL® and TOEIC® Programs Set Global Standard for English-Language Assessment
23/04/13

origin: TOEFL® and TOEIC® Programs Set Global Standard for English-Language Assessment (http://www.ets.org)

Princeton, N.J. (April 23, 2013) —
Educational Testing Service (ETS) last year administered approximately eight million English-language assessments through its TOEFL® and TOEIC® assessment programs. The assessments are used by more than 22,000 organizations in 150 countries.

Today, as the United Nations celebrates English Language Day, there are almost two billion English-language speakers around the world. English has become an increasingly important international language used ...

'Spec-free' recruitment not easy in reality
14/04/13

origin: 'Spec-free' recruitment not easy in reality (http://koreatimes.co.kr)

By Kim Bo-eun
A growing number of corporate recruiters these days say credentials do not matter so much in recruitment, and that jobseekers should try to set themselves apart from other applicants.
In light of intense competition among jobseekers to acquire high English test scores and various licenses, some of the country’s main corporations have implemented recruiting processes that do not take these into consideration.
However, applicants cannot afford to go without such ...

NEAT to have positive impact on English learning
10/04/13

origin: NEAT to have positive impact on English learning (http://koreatimes.co.kr)

By Lyle F. Bachman
 
I must congratulate the Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE) on its foresight and innovativeness in producing the National English Ability Test (NEAT), which in my view represents a major step forward in the field of English language testing in Korea and in the world. 
What makes NEAT particularly important, I believe, is the inclusion of tests of speaking and writing, as well as tests of reading and listening.
Including speaking and ...

SNU officially disregards TOEIC, TEPS, TOEFL scores
04/04/13

origin: SNU officially disregards TOEIC, TEPS, TOEFL scores (http://koreatimes.co.kr)

Students applying for nonscheduled admission at Seoul National University (SNU) won’t need official certificate English scores such as TOEIC, TEPS, and TOEFL, according to a posting on SNU’s homepage. 
SNU will disregard these scores in evaluating applicants, according to their admission office website April 4.
Actually, SNU said that it had been ignoring those scores since last year, but many students unaware of this submitted the scores anyway.
Students ...

Trust your guts!
05/03/13

origin: Trust your guts! (http://koreatimes.co.kr)

By Yoon Hye-sun
 “Hey! Let’s have a bite after class.”
“Sorry, but I have two employment studies today. I’ll catch you later.”
For Korean college students, especially seniors, attending an employment study has become almost a bound duty.
What is an employment study? It is a spot study to enter specific companies, mainly large, well-known ones, upon graduation, or more preferably, even before finishing study.
Of course, preparing for ...

SAT institutes under probe for test leakage
28/02/13

origin: SAT institutes under probe for test leakage (http://koreatimes.co.kr)

By Bahk Eun-ji
Investigators seized documents and computer files from eight private institutes, or hagwon, this week, following suspicions that the schools leaked test questions from the U.S. Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) to students, prosecutors said.
Seoul Central Prosecutors’ Office said the raid targeted private academies in Gangnam, southern Seoul, that provide SAT lessons to students whose families pay high tuition fees.
One of the eight was established by Jeffery Sohn, ...

Shiv Nadar University and Carnegie Mellon University offer dual B.S. or B.Tech. Degree in ECE and Mech Engg
14/02/13

origin: Shiv Nadar University and Carnegie Mellon University offer dual B.S. or B.Tech. Degree in ECE and Mech Engg (http://indiaedunews.net)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and New Delhi, India:
Shiv Nadar University has launched a global dual degree engineering program in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University. This program intends to make Carnegie Mellon's world-class undergraduate programs in mechanical engineering and electrical and computer engineering available to Indian students.
Offering a dual B.S. / B.Tech. Degree program in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering called the CMU-SNU Scholars ...

Positives of overseas language training
13/02/13

origin: Positives of overseas language training (http://koreatimes.co.kr)

First, I would like to express my appreciation for The Korea Times. I am an avid reader and enjoy reading global and local events from a domestic viewpoint. I am an American and recent college graduate, who is a few months into his first job as an English teacher in Korea. I would like to comment on a recent editorial, "Myths on Overseas English Language Training," by Lee Chang-sup. This piece naturally caught my attention, however, I must confess that I disagree with a significant portion of ...