Great Britain invests 156 million Pound to the safety device of the national education standards

(openPR) - ETS Europe receives five-annual contract for the execution of national test routines

Berlin, 6 February 2007 - the British national Assessment Agency (NAA), responsibly for the execution of tests for the national curriculum, assigns the addition for the completion of British learning and collections at ETS Europe. The five-annual contract from 2008 to 2012 is budgetiert with 156 million British Pound.

The NAA is a subsidiary of the Qualifications and of curriculum Authority. This is comparable created German Institut with that 2004 in consequence of the PISA study for development of quality in the training system at the Humboldt university in Berlin. The tests serve the evaluation, whether the national curriculum defaults were reached, among other things, in order to determine the learning and promotion need in the examined subjects and to develop instruction further at schools.

ETS Europe leads the keys of steam turbine and gas turbine systems test, those annually more than 1.4 million British pupils of public schools placings, for the classes of the 5 - until 7-jährigen of children (keys of steam turbine and gas turbine systems 1), the 7 - until 11-year old pupil (key of steam turbine and gas turbine systems 2), the 11 - until 14-jährigen pupil (key of steam turbine and gas turbine systems 3) and for the 11-year old pupils through, who did not exist the learning defaults in the key of steam turbine and gas turbine systems 2 (Year 7 progresses test). The tasks of ETS Europe cover the pressure and the logistics of the diagnostic data sheets, the data acquisition of all test meetings and participants, the correction and the data acquisition from the test results.

Kurt land count, president of the parent company ETS commentates:
„As international Nonprofitorganisation we dedicate ourselves to the promotion of quality and Fairness in the training system. Therefore we are particularly pleased about co-operation with the NAA at the time of execution the national curriculum Assessments for the British educational system. “

Also David Gee, Managing Director of the NAA is convinced:
„This is the conclusion of a strict and thorough advertisement process. We are convinced that the NAA will resume an efficient Assessment program together with ETS, that the quality of the British education in 21. Century secures. “

Press contact:
index agency GmbH
Mrs. Thu Van Ly
Zinnowitzer road 1
10115 Berlin
E-Mail: ets-europe@index.de
Telephone: 030-390 88 171
Fax: 030-390 88 199

Further information:
ETS Europe
Holger Creutzburg
Associate Country manager
Alexanderstr. 7
10178 Berlin
E-Mail: hcreutzburg@etseurope.org
Telephone: 030-24 04 67 93
Fax: 030-24 04 67 94

Over ETS Europe
ETS Europe offers solutions for language tests in the occupation and education Assessment. Researchers, statisticians, instructors and technical personnel from the Psychometrie ensure the high quality, validity and Fairness of the ETS of products. When address of the ETS employs global BV, which is represented in Europe, in the middle east and Africa, ETS Europe to time of approximately 100 coworkers. The German head office is in Berlin, a further address in Frankfurt. With 4.5 million graduate of test of the TOEIC in enterprises, language schools and educational facilities, is ETS Europe the world-wide largest offerers English occupation-referred by tests for. Further information under www.etseurope.org, www.toeic.eu and www.toefl.eu.

Over ETS
ETS is a Nonprofitinstitution with the goal of promoting the quality and Fairness of education by research and the development of reliable and valider Assessment instruments. ETS offers custom-made solutions for educational facilities, government authorities, enterprises and individuals. These solutions cover products and services within the ranges training capability, performance level determination, certifying, lehr and learning aid research and the consultation for the improvement of educational systems. Created Forschungsinstitut developed, and corrects today more administers 1947 as 24 million tests per year in more than 180 countries.

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