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PUBLIC ISSUE DRAFT: FOR ILLUSTRATION AND DISCUSSION
June 12, 2017
Page 1 of 36
To Ms. Louise Arbour
UN Special Representative for International Migration
Re Australian Government and IELTS: Crimes against humanity
Dear Ms. Arbour,
The IELTS consortium has willfully and persistently engaged in academic fraud and extortion to extract billions of dollars (USD) from citizens of developing nations. IELTS is a multi-billion dollars trading empire that maintains offices in around 142 countries.
The Australian Government passively support these crimes as they co-function as a thinly-veiled proxy for Australia’s selective immigration regime. These crimes against humanity also inserts billions of dollars into Australia’s lucrative international education market.
Millions of people who have sat for an IELTS test are citizens of developing nations. Most of these persons are desperate to secure a student or permanent residency visa in a developed nation. This demographic is highly susceptible to ruthless systemic abuse.
Please forward this complaint and evidence to the appropriate officer/s at any agency.
Yours sincerely,
J. Jericho D.Soc.Sc Sydney
Table of Contents
Part 1: IELTS: Non-transparent and subjective scoring system Page 4
Part 2: IELTS: Sets test-takers up to fail to maximize profits Page 17
Part 3: IELTS: Demographic profiling of personal candidate data Page 22
Part 4: IELTS: Its reputation among its clientele Page 28
Annex 1: Ongoing language sector research: Extortion Page 33
Executive summary
The vast bulk of the billions of dollars that IELTS earns as revenue is sourced via its lucrative international English language test. IELTS charge circa AUD$330 per test. One test fee equates to circa 25% of the average annual income earned by citizens of developing nations such as Cambodia and Bangladesh etc. (United Nations, 2017a). IELTS is a bogus charity that inflicts suffering on a mass scale. It does not offer a discount or fee waiver for those who live in a state of “income poverty” as defined by the United Nations (2017b).
IELTS’s application form dictates that candidates must supply the intended use of their language test as a condition of enrolment. Any informed staffer who reads a candidate’s application form may gauge the difference between a pass and fail score.
The more times that a visa applicant fails to reach their target English language score, the more times they need to pay service fees to sit additional IELTS exams.
In recent years the New Zealand Government stripped IELTS of its monopoly status that it had for testing skilled worker and permanent resident applicants.
PUBLIC ISSUE DRAFT: FOR ILLUSTRATION AND DISCUSSION
June 12, 2017
Page 1 of 36
To Ms. Louise Arbour
UN Special Representative for International Migration
Re Australian Government and IELTS: Crimes against humanity
Dear Ms. Arbour,
The IELTS consortium has willfully and persistently engaged in academic fraud and extortion to extract billions of dollars (USD) from citizens of developing nations. IELTS is a multi-billion dollars trading empire that maintains offices in around 142 countries.
The Australian Government passively support these crimes as they co-function as a thinly-veiled proxy for Australia’s selective immigration regime. These crimes against humanity also inserts billions of dollars into Australia’s lucrative international education market.
Millions of people who have sat for an IELTS test are citizens of developing nations. Most of these persons are desperate to secure a student or permanent residency visa in a developed nation. This demographic is highly susceptible to ruthless systemic abuse.
Please forward this complaint and evidence to the appropriate officer/s at any agency.
Yours sincerely,
J. Jericho D.Soc.Sc Sydney
Table of Contents
Part 1: IELTS: Non-transparent and subjective scoring system Page 4
Part 2: IELTS: Sets test-takers up to fail to maximize profits Page 17
Part 3: IELTS: Demographic profiling of personal candidate data Page 22
Part 4: IELTS: Its reputation among its clientele Page 28
Annex 1: Ongoing language sector research: Extortion Page 33
Executive summary
The vast bulk of the billions of dollars that IELTS earns as revenue is sourced via its lucrative international English language test. IELTS charge circa AUD$330 per test. One test fee equates to circa 25% of the average annual income earned by citizens of developing nations such as Cambodia and Bangladesh etc. (United Nations, 2017a). IELTS is a bogus charity that inflicts suffering on a mass scale. It does not offer a discount or fee waiver for those who live in a state of “income poverty” as defined by the United Nations (2017b).
IELTS’s application form dictates that candidates must supply the intended use of their language test as a condition of enrolment. Any informed staffer who reads a candidate’s application form may gauge the difference between a pass and fail score.
The more times that a visa applicant fails to reach their target English language score, the more times they need to pay service fees to sit additional IELTS exams.
In recent years the New Zealand Government stripped IELTS of its monopoly status that it had for testing skilled worker and permanent resident applicants.