Hey, I’m on wifi at the Cairo Airport, so I’ll keep this short… but the Telegraph has weighed in on the HOELT tender with an article that could raise some eyebrows.
As regular readers know, the HOELT will be a fully remote test. I’ve covered that in this space at great length. However, according to the Telegraph’s bold headline, “[m]igrants can ‘cheat’ Labour’s online English language tests.”
The Telegraph article refers to “leading test providers” who warn that “the move to an online-only approach risks undermining the quality and security of the testing system.”
Who are these leading test providers? That is not indicated, though the article does refer to earlier comments by Cambridge University Press and Assessment which were made before the publication of the tender.
I’ll try to find a little time during this trip to keep covering the HOELT.