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With less than 5 weeks left until we welcome you to our annual Spring Seminar, we would like to take the time to shine a light on our workshops brought to you by excellent and experienced speakers. Plenary Sessions Ben Knight is delighted to dive into the topic of learner autonomy in his two plenary sessions. He brings with him expertise in curriculum development and pedagogical research and is currently Director for Language & Pedagogy Research at Cambridge University Press.

A good portion of apprehension accompanies the Speaking Test and the partnering option. Here is some information and advice to hand on to your students:

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only changed the way we teach in the online sphere but has also impacted the methods of testing and assessing.

The closing of the schools in Switzerland and around the world has changed teaching. A lot of face-to-face teaching had to be changed to remote online teaching. To help teachers transition to this new form of teaching, which was unfamiliar to most, we introduced a series of webinars focusing on different aspects of online teaching. In addition to these webinars, we have introduced a new resource website with exclusive online teaching material that any teacher can access for free.

”Christmas is not only a time of rejoicing but also one of reflection.” Winston Churchill

The Spring Seminar is back! Although not the way you were used to... As we had to cancel this year’s Spring Seminar 2020, we did not want that to happen again. To offer this seminar to all of you safely, we have transferred the Spring Seminar to the online world. We are happy to announce that registrations are now open!

Swiss Exams has successfully launched computer-delivered IELTS in Winterthur/Zürich and in Lausanne with more locations to be added in 2021. At the beginning of 2020, Swiss Exams and the British Council signed a strategic IELTS agreement for Switzerland. In the summer, the first IELTS pilot sessions took place and Winterthur/Zurich and Lausanne went operational during the course of the autumn. This gave Swiss Exams the time needed to establish processes and operations and gain the necessary experience to accelerate in 2021.

A year ago, we launched Swiss Exams Access and many schools make excellent use of the platform. Here are five tips that may help you with making decisions and that will make your life easier:  If you would like to reserve seats for Computer-based exams, which are in very high demand, you can make reservations in your Swiss Exams Access account directly.  If you would like to check the payment or option status of your students in realtime, you can filter all outstanding payments of your candidates in the “All Registrations” menu. 

We are excited to announce that our Spring Seminar will take place online for the first time on 5th + 6th March 2021. The topic stays the same: Empowering your learners – developing learner autonomy.

As of November 2020, Cambridge Assessment English changed the look of the Cambridge English Qualifications certificates to improve the security and modernize the look and feel of the certificates. Prior to this new look, Cambridge Assessment English had already updated the paper used for the certificates to a higher quality. The overall new look will therefore build on this change and update the design and enhance the security features on the certificates starting in November 2020. Updates to the Young Learners certificates will follow at a later date.