The State Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal for permission to the School Education Department to enter into an agreement with the Educational Testing Services (ETS) for examination and certification of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) to assess English language skills of students from Class III to X in all government schools.
ETS is a non-profit organisation based out of Princeton, United States and primarily conducts three exams — SAT, TOEFL and GRE.
“The certification programme is being introduced to improve the listening and speaking capabilities of the students, even for American and European accents, besides benchmarking our students’ performance at the international level and providing access to students for certification, which is globally accredited and accepted by 11,000 universities and other institutions in over 190 countries and territories,” said Principal Secretary, School Education Praveen Prakash.
