Suss, Members of the IELTS consortium have a serious duty of care to act in a manner that is professional, ethical and transparent at all stages of their global business operations. Rather, it was designed specifically to assess the English of students intending to enter English-speaking universities or training programmes. IDP Education is an Australian corporation. Australia and Britain are historical colonial powers and are members of the Commonwealth of nations, formerly known as the British Commonwealth.
Louis, The United Nations c recognizes that migrants are a vulnerable demographic that are not always afforded the same rights and protections that a host government bestows on its citizens. Demetriou, , p. IELTS charges a standard fee by test center location.
This data set contains a member nation from each continent excluding Antarctica , including the Indian subcontinent. IDP Education is a for-profit, profit maximizing limited liability corporation that trades on the Australian Stock Exchange. Figure 3, overleaf, contains the caption of a news article authored by Australian economics journalist Ross Gittins that captures this popular sentiment.
Figure 5 shows the stock price movement for IDP Education over the past 12 months. The profile of one of these board members, David Battersby, is described by IDP Education as a career educator with extensive experience in the post-secondary education sector IDP Education, b. By doing so, the University of Cambridge explicitly and willfully uses its ancient brand to underwrite and promote the commercial sale of goods and services produced by Cambridge Assessment Group, including IELTS.
They also appoint two assessors for speaking tests. Members of the IELTS consortium have proactively forged deep direct and indirect connections with governments, transnational corporations and other influential stakeholders such as professional registration bodies and post-secondary educational institutions.
These universities are regulated by the governments of six Australian states and two territories. University of A public British post-secondary education institution that was established by Cambridge Royal Charter. Blackie, IELTS band score 5 modest user and band score 8 very good user.
Relatively few professionals e. Most of these people are citizen residents from birth of their host country and completed their studies in English.
Moreover, they have not sought independent advice to validate advice offered by these agents. This situation is not surprising. Establishing a monopoly market enables IELTS to repeatedly use profit-gouging examination fraud to fail foreign national professionals who must sit an IELTS exam to gain professional registration status and a professional work visa. The Australian Association of Social Workers AASW is an example of a professional registration body that has a serious case to answer in the public domain.
International student graduates who aim to register with AASW inform me that they repeatedly receive marginal fail scores for writing. IELTS can detect their career and visa objective via their intrusive application form see page Nurses and midwives routinely communicate critical healthcare information in settings such as the operating theatre and emergency department.
Migration agents play an important role in offering their clients sound impartial advice to support their visa applications. With regards to language testing, this role is more profound in jurisdictions such as Australia and New Zealand that offer competitive options. Numerous migration agents have publicly criticized the design and assessment of the IELTS test in the public domain.
Suss, ; Coates cited in Kenny, One way that IELTS corrupts this market is by offering cash sponsorship payments to migration stakeholders such as the Migration Institute of Australia. Figures 13 and 14 documents this claim. Figure 15 documents this claim. British Council and University of Cambridge. To a large extent, this perception is unofficially correct. IELTS have never been charged or prosecuted for examination frauds and other crimes such as extortion that they have deliberately perpetrated in Australian, British and other jurisdictions on a massive global scale.
It presents itself as a government agency, a diplomatic body, but is really a government subsidized business, as so many of us know to our cost.
The British Council did not attend this court hearing and lost on default. This court rejected this argument and stated that there was no diplomatic documentation provided by the British Council to support this claim.
To illustrate this argument, please consider this scenario that applies to all international students who graduate in Canada. An international student earns a four-year Doctoral Degree in French Language Linguistics from the University of Ottawa and passes a written and oral Doctoral thesis examination conducted in the English language.
The Canadian Government does not accept this Canadian award as evidence of English or French language proficiency.
All international students who study and graduate in Canada are required to prove their English or French language competencies via a language test after they graduate to qualify for a skilled residency visa Government of Canada, Most persons who apply for an Canadian residency visa are not proficient in French and opt to take an English language test to support their application for a Canadian residency visa.
The lucrative virtual monopoly i. The United States has around million more residents than Canada. The Canadian Government blatantly uses IELTS examiner fraud as a covert proxy to expel most international students from their country after they graduate and are no longer profitable to exploit.
Academics who receive an IELTS grant may be permitted to use this cash to fund release from their classroom teaching duties. It is common knowledge among academics that many of their colleagues prefer to use their research grants to fund release from teaching duties, attend overseas conferences and pay for associated costs such as hotels. They do not offer an impartial, deep global critique.
This report aims to fill this critical gap in the existing research. The author of this research report is independent, self-reflexive and self-funded. Phase 2 of this research project aims to interview circa 20 former and 20 currently practicing IELTS examiners. This extension should further strengthen the reliability and validity of inferences drawn in this project.
I warmly welcome constructive feedback and questions from members of the public. The methodological design of this report conforms to the ethical requirements, conventions and high standards imposed on scholars and practitioners who study at graduate research level.
Events and quantitative facts that are common knowledge among those who work in the English language testing industry are not supported with a reference, as is customary among scholarly researchers e.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, This research project analyses circa 3, independent pieces of evidence obtained from ten principal data sources. This project achieved data saturation after the examination of circa pieces of evidence. This evidence includes multiple independent data obtained from ten data sets shown in Table 7. Source is official. Secondary data type Public reports e. Source is triangulated with at Special Broadcasting least one primary source Service document.
The identity of the author must be accessible. Public testimonies of academic Research must conform to Uysal research scholars e. Suss migration agents. Analytical tools This report uses specialist content analysis tools that are appropriate to analyze each type of evidence.
Table 8, overleaf, provides a summary of the main types of data analysis tools and offers an example for each. Cambridge English c, p. The vast bulk of data sources are not influenced by the objectives of this research or by the personal characteristics of the researcher.
This multidisciplinary mixed-methods study triangulates primary and secondary data extracted from hundreds of independent data sources dated over the past ten years to draw inferences. This methodological design aims to achieve data reliability, validity and replicability. Chapter 3 Evidence This section offers an example of core evidence which underpins analysis in section 4 and Appendix 2 of this report.
This policy is unconscionable as it takes advantage of the disparate bargaining power that exists between one individual from a vulnerable demographic compared to the mammoth global power enjoyed by a multibillion dollars business consortium.
IELTS use condensed italicized fine-print shrunken font footnote style text to diminish the clarity of legal jargon that empowers its legal position to the maximum advantage.
The use of condensed fine-print exemption clauses at the end of contracts is widely regarded as a deceitful, unethical, exploitative and unnecessary business practice nowadays.
This includes commercial and open-access sources. IELTS do not provide a curriculum document or syllabus document to support each exam cycle. Candidates who have a miniscule spelling error in their written response receive a score of zero for that component of the listening test.
This false score suggests that the candidate could not comprehend that word. There is no reason for the critical reader to suspect that most of these Test Report Forms are forgeries. Figure 23 shows how Test Report Forms are easy to locate via Google images.
This includes private testimonies offered to the author of this report in addition to verifiable accounts that exist in the public domain. Since March , the author of this research report has consulted directly with 63 members of the public e. In addition to this sample, I draw on my extensive face-to-face consultations with two practicing IELTS examiners during when I was employed and trained as a learning skills instructor at an accredited Australian university.
Table 9, overleaf, summarizes the sources and quantity of my direct engagement data collection consultations. Between September and March my request for feedback was exclusively neutral. All university research academics from linguistics and education disciplines have identified themselves in confidence and have offered a constructively critical account of their experiences in their capacities as IELTS examiners, instructors and researchers.
The overwhelming bulk of these testimonies are attributable to stakeholders who have a close association with the IELTS exam. This act increases the likelihood that their contribution is authentic. If I extend this definition of IELTS critics to include online posts that are authored by anonymous and semi-anonymous e. An example of a source that contains anonymous, semi-anonymous and identifiable criticism of the IELTS exam is a petition uploaded on Change. Figure 25 shows an extract of this petition, which has been signed by more than 4, people in recent months.
This sample evidence illustrates how serious allegations of IELTS profiteering and corrupt business practices have persisted among professionals in the business community for several years. Most data sources were collected and analyzed between September and December Analysis in this section should be read in conjunction with the appropriate Research Communique research document as shown in Appendix 2.
Discussions in the relevant sub-section of this chapter refers to the relevant research communiques that complement analysis. In recent months, IELTS have publicly claimed that they partially enforce a blind-marking policy for examination remarks.
IELTS do not clarify if supervising managers are aware of the original scores. Jericho over the past six months with regards to the issues contained in this report see The Free School, This public disclosure refers to the miniscule amount of official IELTS preparation materials that are offered for sale. IELTS change their examination content for each test cycle. Highlight does not appear on the original webpage. Improving IELTS It is exceptionally difficult for independent, suitably qualified professionals such as English language linguists and pedagogy researchers to determine whether IELTS exam content is fair and free of numerous unnecessary obvious design flaws.
It is also difficult for test-takers and advocates to determine whether individuals and examination cohorts have been treated fairly. The author of this report has been continuously employed by four Australian universities and two degree-granting educational institutions in Australia since These unfair practices do not align with notions of procedural fairness that exist in educational settings in Western countries e.
Canada and most other regions. Google Images. This bogus claim is not supported by independent marketing research that surveys customer satisfaction levels. Three million tests do not automatically equate to three million satisfied smiling clients. It is likely that IELTS failed hundreds of thousands of skilled migrants, multiple times each during They also do not publish quantitative range performance data such as the number of customers who have taken, e.
IELTS routinely use images of relaxed, smiling Asian and Arab youthful adults to promote the sale of their goods and services. I met all 60 persons via random encounters in educational and social settings. This sample is diverse in terms of age, first language, citizenship, work experience and test location. Many examinees claim that a high percentage of IELTS examiners and examination administrators persistently act in a way that is authoritarian and intimidating.
They suspect that IELTS staff act this way to maximize job security and overtime payments that arise from repeat failed exam sales.
Figures 32 and 33 are indicative samples of these discussions as told by persons who have taken multiple IELTS exams. As a collective, these entities accrue more than estimated million dollars USD annually in economic surpluses for the sale of IELTS services and products. Most of these sales are made to citizens of developing nations.
In this context, IELTS never mention information such as the fact that they charge test-takers a commercial fee that is equivalent to the average salary earned in one month by a Filipino nurse Graham, for each test that their candidates sit.
The logic that I use to discuss these flaws should be clear to a lay audience. For example, one may argue that a linguist or pedagogy researcher is not qualified to comment on the many business-oriented graphical diagrams that IELTS use in writing part 1 of its Academic test. Table 11 summarizes major and obvious pedagogical design flaws that persist throughout the IELTS exam.
As discussed in the Research Communique series, these flaws are relatively easy to fix. Secretive assessment rubrics. Subjective assessment rubrics. Incorporates a western-centric hidden curriculum that unfairly 2, 4 assumes the test-taker has knowledge on a vast range of topics. Assessment structure is stubbornly rigid and therefore lacks 4 authenticity. Correct answers may earn a score of zero for listening tests.
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