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In Updating the A2 Key and B1 Preliminary vocabulary lists, Lanes, Love, Kalman, Brenchley and Pickles describe the process of updating the wordlist for A2 Key and B1 Preliminary exams and their schools variants.

In Revising the A2 Key and B1 Preliminary Speaking exam, Kathryn Davies and Nick Glasson from our Assessment department report on how a periodic ‘health check’ prompted changes to A2 Key and B1 Preliminary.

In Revising the A2 Key and B1 Preliminary Reading exam, Marianne Pickles, Tony Clark and Mark Elliott from our Assessment, Research and Thought Leadership, and Validation and Data Services departments, report on how one of our regular exam 'health checks' led to the revision of two of our exams.

Cambridge Assessment English has long been recognised as one of the international leaders in pre-service teacher education through the CELTA qualification. In recent years, we have been working around the world at a national level with both in-service and pre-service teachers to improve levels of pedagogical skill and knowledge in a variety of different countries, for example Panama, Ukraine and Malta.

Good communication skills are essential to patient safety, wellbeing and the overall efficiency of busy healthcare organisations. At Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment this is something we’re very interested in as we jointly own the Occupational English Test (OET), a widely used international English language test for healthcare professionals. Earlier this year we commissioned a piece of research that looked into the challenges of communicating clearly to patients, with the leading healthcare accreditation body Joint Commission International (JCI).

TK Arunachalam from Cambridge Assessment English writes about how technology is shaking up the way people learn English. He talks about how tech is helping Cambridge Assessment English with their mission to help people learn English and prove their skills to the world – and answers the popular question of: will tech replace teachers?