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The Board of Education in Kutchan town, Hokkaido, home to the Niseko international ski resort, is using Cambridge English’s Pre-A1 Starters. All final-year pupils in the town’s elementary schools took the test as they reached the end of the first stage of the town’s program to develop effective communication skills in English.

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Adventures in English with Cambridge is designed by experts in Cambridge to help young learners practise their English language skills.

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Selected Cambridge English Qualifications, developed by a department of Cambridge University, have been officially recognised as proof of English language ability in the vocational education sector in The Netherlands. The decision means that vocational institutions can now apply for an exemption from the institutional examinations for generic English, for those students holding a Cambridge English Qualification. It is set to benefit thousands of students in the Netherlands every year who are working towards a place at higher education or entering the workplace.

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All six of the public universities in Singapore now accept the C1 Advanced Qualification from Cambridge Assessment English as proof of English language ability.

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A new impact study has highlighted the positive attitudes of English language students preparing for Cambridge English Qualifications in Moscow state schools. The research by Cambridge Assessment English found students to have high levels of motivation, confidence and an awareness of the benefits of preparing for international exams.

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A series of events is underway with the aim of supporting English teachers in Ukraine to further develop their assessment knowledge when teaching young children English. The webinars will focus on the use of internationally recognised benchmarks for learning and assessing English, and how the world-famous Cambridge English Qualifications can be used to reach the highest standards in education.

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Cambridge has announced perseverance as the word of the year 2021, based on data from searches of the free online Cambridge Dictionary. Perseverance, which is defined by Cambridge Dictionary as ‘continued effort to do or achieve something, even when this is difficult or takes a long time’, has been looked up more than 243,000 times during 2021, by people across the globe.

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The challenges faced by the higher education sector in the Middle East and Africa were the focus of an event hosted by Cambridge Assessment English, which attracted more than 720 live attendees from all over the world. It was the first conference for the newly formed Cambridge Higher Education Consortium, which was set up in 2020 to share best practice between higher education institutions in the region in response to the global pandemic.

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The next PISA evaluation of education systems in 2025 will be a game-changer for the English teaching community worldwide, according to a leading English language assessment expert.

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A game that’s helping hundreds of thousands of children to learn English in Minecraft has been shortlisted for a global education award. English Adventures with Cambridge, which was developed by experts at Cambridge Assessment English, has already clocked up more than 300,000 plays in 170 countries.

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