{"id":709580,"date":"2019-09-30T17:56:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww.dailynewssegypt.com\/?p=709580"},"modified":"2019-09-30T17:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T15:56:32","slug":"cambridge-assessment-english-witnesses-a-huge-demand-for-oet-at-aastmt-university-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/2019\/09\/30\/cambridge-assessment-english-witnesses-a-huge-demand-for-oet-at-aastmt-university-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Assessment English witnesses a huge demand for OET at AASTMT University in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Cambridge Assessment English, a branch of the University of Cambridge, has seen a great demand from Egyptian doctors for the Occupational English Test (OET), the\u00a0English language test for the healthcare sector at the examination centre for Arab Academy for Science, Technology &amp; Maritime Transport (<i>AASTMT)<\/i>university in Alexandria. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The International Examination Centre in Alexandria has been offering the OET \u2013 a venture between Cambridge Assessment English and the Box Hill Institute \u2013 test for the past four years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">OET is an Australian-developed English language test that assesses the language proficiency of healthcare professionals. It provides assessment of all four language skills \u2013 listening, reading, writing and speaking \u2013 through test material designed to reflect real healthcare scenarios. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Ismail Abdel Ghaffar, President of the AASTMT said, \u201cThe international healthcare community is incredibly diverse and professionals from Egypt and all over the world make a huge contribution. However, it is essential that professionals working in English-speaking environments have the English language skills which they need to deliver high-quality care and patient safety.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Abdel Ghaffa added that it is great for the AASTMT to be working with such a prestigious organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Nassim Abu-Ershaed, Regional Commercial Head at Cambridge Assessment English<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">said, \u201cOET is a special English language test for the healthcare sector that is used by medical professionals who need to prove they have the right levels of English language skills to work in an English-speaking environment.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Examination Centre in Alexandria has been offering the OET \u2013 a venture between Cambridge Assessment English and the Box Hill Institute \u2013 test for the past four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":709591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,331],"tags":[61472,61470,61471],"tmauthors":[],"coauthors":[3479],"class_list":["post-709580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","category-politics","tag-aastmt-university","tag-cambridge-assessment-english","tag-oet"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709580"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=709580"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailynewsegypt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=709580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}