Regarding Nesrine Malik’s article on the absurdity of the new requirements for some immigrants (A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants, 20 October), there are indeed no criteria for an A-level standard of competence in the English language.
The English language A-level assesses the skills of linguistics to analyse how communication works, and also the capacity to write within the conventions of different genres, such as a detective story or a newspaper article.
