INTENSIVE IELTS PREPARATION PROGRAMME HAS BEEN THE TRIGGER FOR STUDYING OVERSEAS

Azhar Aziz Lubis, a faculty member at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, University of Bengkulu, was granted the IELTS intensive course by the Ministry of Education and Research of the Republic of Indonesia. This programme aimed to bridge Indonesia home lecturers pursue their English proficiency score as a requirement for continuing to doctorate degrees overseas. This three-month training has been run for a decade and most of its alumnae showed successful achievement.

With the other four colleagues, Azhar has been exposed to intensive English environment in the language centre of the State University of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Three language training centres located in three different cities are involved in this event as the host selected by the Directorate of Research; Bandung, Yogyakarta and Malang. Fifty lecturers were sent to each centre which made up a hundred and fifty in total. They are obliged to attend almost a hundred per cent attendance and take official IELTS examination three times funded by the Directorate.