English Australia

Australia to set nationwide English entry requirements for international students.

At the moment, Australian universities are able to set their own English standards and requirements to enter their programmes, which often leads to puzzled international students. Students are not sure what the minimum English requirements are and while some institutes have quite low standards, others set their standards ridiculously high.

Now the Australian government is thinking of a solution to those problems by setting the English requirements for Australian institutes to a standardised level.

Students will be able to prepare in better ways and English schools can adapt their programmes; that way it doesn't matter at which university or college a student wants to study after sitting for an English test, and students can be positive to have the right level of English at their hands.

At the moment it is not quite sure when these standards will be set and how high the required English levels will be. However, it is very likely that colleges and TAFEs won’t require the same language level than universities.