HKWEB and Specified International Business English Examinations 

 

Applicants of the Funding Scheme for Workplace English Training and Continuing

Education Fund (CEF) mayconsider taking a spoken, a written or an integrated

English examination to attaintheir relevant Hong KongWorkplace

EnglishBenchmarks.

For easy reference,the following table lists out the minimum benchmark

attainments required for individualapplicants 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).