May Newsletter 2022 

News from Anglia HQ

Welcome to the May newsletter for Anglia Examinations.

Words from Steve Bannister, CEO Anglia Examinations:

"Just when we thought that relative calm was returning to the world post the worst ravages of the pandemic, we find the war in Ukraine and corresponding inflationary pressures bring a raft of new challenges. The adage that "uncertainty is the only constant" holds more truth than ever, and yet, despite all the turmoil we have faced of late, we find that Anglia continues to grow and thrive. This growth is a consequence of the passion, commitment and hard work demonstrated by colleagues here at HQ and by you- our partners worldwide. Thank you all.

We have been busy here at Anglia HQ. Exam volumes are buoyant, with exam sessions in Italy, Spain, Greece and Latin America growing fast. The number of universities who recognise our exams increases, and overall, we feel optimistic. So much so that we have submitted a five-year business plan to our parent - Chichester College Group, in which we have made a robust case for investment into Anglia Examinations.

If we are to continue to navigate this challenging business landscape successfully, we need to invest in our people, systems, sales, marketing, and new product development. We know that we cannot afford to stand still. Investing in our operations is what we will be doing over the coming months- all so that we can serve you better in the future.

Being part of the extended Anglia Network gives us confidence that by working together and harnessing collaboration, we can achieve so much more together than we can by working in isolation.

A great example of this is the collaborative project currently underway where Anglia partners in the UK, Spain, Italy, and Greece are working together to produce eLearning resources to support our English language teachers worldwide. In time these resources will be hosted on www.angliaonline.com and made available to all partners, not to replace the great value that teachers are uniquely placed to deliver to learners- but to help our teachers in their mission of helping as many people as possible to attain English qualifications. Watch this space for developments!

Wherever you are in the world and whatever the challenges you face, we wish you all the best and look forward to hearing of and sharing your news and updates as we continue to grow and learn together."

The session will have speakers from universities talking about study abroad options in Spain, Cyprus, UK and Italy. Arts University Bournemouth will run an interesting session on creativity and the arts. We have sent you all a flyer for you to distribute amongst your students and centres. Register before 14th June by following this link Global University Open Day - Webifair Event | Home (anglia.org)

Any questions please feel free to contact: Claudia.beltran@chichester.ac.uk  

News from Europe

Anglia Cyprus

Greetings from sunny Cyprus. We hope you are all safe and well.

As always, May has been a very busy and a very difficult month for us. After the Easter break, a series of Speaking sessions was held in every district around the island and will continue to take place until the first week of June. At this point, we would like to thank all our speaking assessors for their loyalty, professionalism and support.

We are also preparing for our biggest writing sessions of the year on 25^th and 26^th June, with over 8000 candidates getting ready for their end of the year exam. The May session was held yesterday in all our districts and once again, our local office teams have managed to organise and deliver a very successful examination session.

We are also very happy to announce that “Frederick University”, one of the most prestigious universities here in Cyprus, will participate in our 18^th June WebiFair. Claudia Beltran, George Middleton and Michalis Kyperesis had meetings with the university’s International Students Admissions Officer this month and we are definitely looking forward to this exciting project. We are very optimistic that this collaboration with the university is just the beginning.

Thank you very much.

Anglia Netherlands

1.       We recently had the 5th webinar with students from Brazil. This was the last webinar In a few months we will start up again and prepare for the examinations. Thank you so much to all the enthusiastic teachers and students!

2.       Congratulations Bhagya and Vishmi with completing the teacher training!

🎓 Bhagya (left):
"I am very happy about the course and took great advantage of it. I had the opportunity to learn so many new things! I really liked the online platform we used. It enabled us to study in a very enthusiastic way and made me want to do more assignments!"

🎓 Vishmi (right)
"The training was very good even though it was done online. We were able to have a different kind of experience and finished with better knowledge and a nice certificate. I really liked it! Thanks again for giving us this opportunity!"

3.       This week students from Lviv, Ukraine joined the second live webinar on our platform. With support of our volunteer teachers from they talked about friendship & sports.

4.       A big thank you to Gimnazija Antuna Gustava Matoša from Croatia. 

English for Kids Foundation

Monique is also an EFKF volunteer teacher and is currently helping Ukrainian students improve their vocabulary and spoken English skills on the Anglia Platform. She’s also helping an Ukrainian mother who’s staying with a family in her home town in Hampshire, England by providing her with English lessons and supporting her to integrate into their community and to find work. “Thank you Anglia for allowing Alyona to sign up to the Adult Beginner Course for free”.

Anglia Spain

Anglia Examinations in Adra, Almeria

Earlier on this month, Chris Kunz, President at Anglia Examinations Ibero-America, and Monica Blanco-Kunz, CEO at Anglia Examinations Spain, visited ‘Hello Academy’, one of our brand-new Exam Centres in the City of Adra, in Almeria. They carried out fun and communicative activities with students of various ages, which everyone thoroughly enjoyed.

Thank you, Marian, Head of Studies at ‘Hello’, for welcoming us to your lovely school!

FECEI Conference

Anglia Spain was present at the 10^th edition of the annual FECEI Conference (Federación Española de Centros de Enseñanza de Idiomas). We had both, a physical as well as a virtual Anglia Stand – it was such an enriching experience to meet so many people not only from Spain, but also from many other countries!

We would like to thank FECEI for organising this first-rate event year after year. The combination of meeting people face-to-face as well as online was perefct. Massive thanks to all the members of FECEI who were in touch with us and made everything very easy and straightforward every time we had a query. We do believe in the importance of sponsoring these types of events and we will undoubtedly attend future editions of the Conference. Thanks to all the delegates for visiting both, our virtual and our physical stand. 

Anglia Language & Culture Exchange Programme

During this month, Spanish students from different Anglia Examination Centres around the world gave their presentation at the 6^th Language & Culture Exchange Programme organised by our friends from Anglia Latin America, who very kindly invited us to participate.

In the presentation, our students talked about traditional days and typical customs from Spain. Subsequently, students from Armenia, Colombia, Canada, Argentina, Russia and Uruguay asked them several questions. The interaction between students from different nationalities is genuinely perfect to practise English and it is also highly motivating for them all to keep gaining self-confidence in the production of the language. Congratulations to all participants and teachers who meet every week!  

May Exam Session

There were online & paper-based exam sessions in the country in May. Students from Madrid, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela, Barcelona, Tenerife, Granada, Ciudad Real, Malaga, Valencia, Almeria, Zaragoza, Orense and Lanzarote, among others, took their Anglia Exams this month. We wish the best of luck to all the candidates. 

Invigilator Training Programme

In May we also trained Anglia Invigilators from our newest Examination Centres so they are ready for the forthcoming exam session in June. It was a really fruitful and interactive session where participants were willing to learn more and more about how to conduct Anglia exam sessions.

Standardisation for Anglia Examiners

Towards the end of the month, Alice Osman, Chief Examiner at Anglia UK, was in charge of conducting the annual standardisation session for examiners in Spain. standardisation sessions are essential as they aim to help all examiners have a common understanding of the marking standards and conventions. Needless to say, we were very proud to have a full house. Thank you, Alice, for always supporting and guiding us all.

News from Africa

Anglia Morocco

During the month of May was busy for Anglia Morocco.

Our partners in the Fez under Mr. Youssef Ben-Naouer finally opened their center and began classes.  Because it is an association, they are recruiting volunteer teachers to get established in the Fez Region and American Group International will help recognize and give a support base for them as needed. They started with a workshop by Mrs. Faten Hijazi, from Lebanon.

During the middle of May we held our testing in Agadir. It was a new experience by all. The students were challenged by the exams. To have an international exam actually showed them the areas they are needing improvement, even though they did not receive any results, as yet.

Our partners in Laayoune under, Mr. Zaine Daoudi are now putting the finishing touches on the center there and will be opening in the south in a few months.

Our partner in Mirleft, Garnetta Johnson is visiting the community centers and trying to get the community to accept the presence of English in this area. Currently, there is no presence in this area. Anglia Morocco will travel there during the summer to help with the mission efforts. We will see about starting skill trainings along with English in this region. We have had calls from English countries where a source is needed in Mirleft.  Many families would want to return to that area to invest. Our institute in Agadir currently has two students learning English from that area.

Anglia Morocco traveled to Taroudant to start working with a center named FOCUS. Mr. El Mehdi Amahou welcomed us and that contact looks promising. There is no English presence there that we are aware of with international exams. The picture attached is the Director Mr. Amahou, his assistant and Mr. Abdelhak Lam, head of Anglia Sales.

News from Latin America

Anglia Ecuador

We are currently also in the works to collaborate with centers from Ouajda and Biougra regions.

Anglia Morocco also announced that we would be having an essay contest for high- leveled English students during the summer months. This would be a country-wide contest and prizes will be given out.

Anglia Argentina

Last week, we held a beautiful Certificate Presentation Ceremony at San Andres school in Banfield, Buenos Aires. All their candidates passed their exams with flying colours and received their well-deserved Anglia Certificate. Hope to see you all again next year. Hats off to all the teachers and school authorities for their great job.

Clearly, Buenos Aires was not the only location where Anglia certificates were presented to candidates. You might have seen on social media the face of many, many happy students (and teachers!).

Coach up Institute from Mendoza had a Certificate Presentation Ceremony and were featured in a digital newspaper. Congratulations, Gina and Maria Laura, on your students’ wonderful results!

If you’d like to read the newspaper article, you can find it here: https://diariondi.com/coach-up-institute-el-unico-instituto-de-ingles-con-certificacion-internacional-del-valle-de-uco/?fbclid=IwAR1zKVhKdXaBKD3Q8bqhqzrFJkrHv0lmXanpfYPULPIogJoy_2P_UQRnJ4I

More than two hundred students from the primary and secondary sections of Colegio San Rafael de los Hermanos Maristas in San Rafael, Mendoza were presented with their Anglia International Certificates, too. Congratulations to all of them, and to their teachers and coordinators!

New arrivals at the Anglia Office

All the Anglia Certificates for the students who sat their exam in the March 2022 online exam session have now arrived at the Anglia Office! Our Administrative Assistants will be contacting everyone to arrange the delivery of the certificates. If your students took their exams in March, but in the paper-based format, their certificates will be with you very shortly.

Also, this month we have new Members from Buenos Aires, San Luis, Entre Rios, Cordoba, La Pampa, Santa Cruz and Jujuy. Welcome to the Anglia Family!

2022 Edition of Anglia Webinars

In May, Gabriela Racca and Gabriela Simone, our brand-new Academic Liaison Officers, carried out their first academic – and exclusive to our Schools/ Centres and Members - webinar of the year. They jointly designed a presentation to help teachers prepare students for Anglia’s four lower levels (First Step to Preliminary). Undoubtedly, they mastered it!

Thank you to everyone who attended the sessions and a massive thank you to Gabriela and Gabriela for giving it their best shot!

The 6^th Anglia Ibero-America Language & Culture Exchange Programme

Our 6^th edition of the Language and Culture Exchange programme has sadly come to an end. Students from Armenia, Russia, Uruguay, Canada, Colombia, Argentina and Spain met during 6 weeks to learn more about their countries and had a blast! Thank you all for participating!

If you’d like to take part in this programme, please send an email to administration@angliaexams.com and we’ll contact you.

Anglia Chile

Academia Tarapacá has just celebrated their 2022 English Week and Anglia was there!

Chris Kunz, President of Anglia Ibero-America, personally sent our best wishes through a video that the students shared with teachers and family at their Information booth. Looking forward to seeing all of them very, very soon!

Anglia Peru

Dear Anglia Team

I hope you are doing well. We want to inform you about the current news re Anglia Peru. There was a very important event last Saturday; we had a certificate presentation ceremony for those English teachers who got their International ANGLIA CERTIFICATES B2, C1 and C.I.T.E.

I have attached some pictures of our event. Thanks for your time and attention. 

Best regards,

Raúl Merino

Anglia Uruguay

This month we’ve had online exam candidates from Las Piedras, Maldonado and Montevideo. We wish them all well!

Certificates from past exam sessions have just arrived at our main hub in Rocha and are being classified prior to delivery.

Students from Overview English Studio, in Rocha, shared a lovely presentation about their country during the last meeting of the Language & Culture Exchange Programme. Hats off to all of them!

Anglia Colombia

We are glad to announce Anglia Examinations will be, once again, present at one of the most important ELT Events in Colombia: the fifth edition of TESOL Colombia. This year’s theme is ‘Ready for the Phygital ELT Era? Thriving in Disruptive Education’. Besides being proud sponsors, Chris Kunz, President at Anglia Examinations Ibero-America, will be also delivering an academic session at the event.

Registration is now open! See you all very soon!  

News from Asia

Anglia Indonesia

Anglia Indonesia is reaching out to more and more English learners in Indonesia to dare to dream by organizing a digital campaign called #IDaretoDream. The goal of the campaign is to share the importance of learning English confidently; hence, taking learners closer to their dreams.

We started the campaign by introducing an Indonesian-born star Niki Zefanya as the role model, hoping the viewers will find inspirations to dream big and put their all to achieve it. More posts on the #IDaretoDream are coming. A total of six Anglia students have been interviewed last week, and their inspiring stories will be shared soon. Please look forward to it!