How Does an Employee Achieve these Benchmarks? 

HKWEB Levels are aligned to the business English examinations administered by several internationally-recognized examination bodies, thus offering employers and employees a range of choices as to which examination to take. The examinations currently available for HKWEB are found in the following table:

HKWEB and Specified International Business English Examinations

Applicants of the Funding Scheme for Workplace English Training and Continuing Education Fund (CEF) may consider taking a spoken, a written or an integrated English examination to attain their relevant Hong Kong Workplace English Benchmarks.

For easy reference, please click here to view the table which lists out the minimum benchmark attainments required for individual applicants of each job type who take the integrated English examinations.

 * IELTS is listed as a specified examination by WEC under certain conditions. Please note the following before applying to the Funding Scheme for Workplace English Training for courses leading to an IELTS examination:

(1)	IELTS is recognized as a specified examination by WEC only for in-house tailor-made English training with effect from 1 January 2005 (applications received on or before 31 December 2004, individual or company, are not qualified for subsidies for taking the IELTS examination, regardless of the examination date);
(2)	such courses should be designed for and taken only by employees who have obtained their first local or overseas degree within 3 years prior to the date of the IELTS examination (as counted from the issuance date of the certificate of graduation); and
(3)	such courses should lead to the Academic Module of the IELTS examination (courses leading to the General Training Module will not be accepted).

The above requirements are subject to change without prior notice, and the Office of WEC reserves the right to accept or reject any applications to the Funding Scheme for Workplace English Training for undertaking IELTS.