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MTS is proudly attending and sponsoring the 2023 E-Assessment Association’s annual conference in London, held on June 6 and June 7 2023. We have been hearing from senior leaders on important topics such as integrity in the delivery of exams, the role of AI in the exams and assessment world, policy change and innovation.

To mark the coronation of King Charles III, MTS shares a fun guide to some of the more obscure English nouns associated with the coronation ceremony.

MTS is thrilled to announce it has started delivering IELTS exams in Manchester, a vibrant and diverse city with a thriving education sector and culture.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) company OpenAI has this week unveiled GPT-4, the latest incarnation of the large language model that powers its popular chatbot ChatGPT. OpenAI claims that GPT-4 contains big improvements, including the use of images as well as text and computer code in its prompts and answers.

Every day, Social Workers support millions of people in the UK to improve their chances in life. MTS is proud to play its part in supporting people to live their best lives through helping people to access the social care employment sector.

MTS is delighted to announce that it has opened a brand new exams centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Equipped with 32 high-spec computer workstations, and ideally set up for both computer-based and paper-based exams, MTS’s new venue is the best and newest place for taking exams in Belfast.

Western Australia is welcoming skilled migrants from the UK and Ireland under a new scheme, and anyone migrating will need to pass an IELTS English language test with MTS.

MTS's IELTS (General Training) test is accepted as proof of English language ability for the Canadian government's Express Entry immigration route.

MTS was proud to have successfully delivered examination services to enable the latest round of General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) exams to over 250 candidates across 6 UK cites on 3 November 2022. MTS worked with its exam partners to mobilise its highly skilled invigilation workforce to run the exam at MTS's venues in Birmingham, Brighton, Coventry, Glasgow, London and Nottingham.

MTS has helped 592 nurses sit IELTS tests in 2022, and outlines the NMC's upcoming changes to the IELTS score requirements for nurses in the UK from 2023.

MTS promoted its IELTS tests and preparation courses at 'Down Under Live', an event for people in the UK interested in migrating to Australia or New Zealand.

MTS has successfully delivered the high-stakes ICBSE (Intercollegiate Committee for Basic Surgical Exams) tests to hundreds of trainee surgeons, at the most recent set of exams which took place on 13 September 2022. MTS worked successfully with Pearson VUE and others to offer the exam sessions at MTS's venues and partner venues in 6 cities across the UK: London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Coventry and Belfast. MTS also supplied the invigilation workforce, drawing these from its pool of over 350 trained invigilators nationally.