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What is BULATS?
The Business Language Testing Service (BULATS) is a language assessment service specifically for the use of companies and organisations. BULATS is for organisations which need a reliable way of assessing the language ability of groups of employees or trainees.
The service is designed to test the language of employees who need to use a foreign language in their work, and for students and employees on language courses or on professional/business courses where foreign language ability is an important element of the course.
The service provides:
relevant, useful and reliable language tests in work contexts
test administration to suit the client company's individual requirements
rapid turn around of test results
information to help the interpretation of test results
advice to companies on appropriate strategies for language testing, assessing language needs (language auditing) and training. 

About ALTE - Association of Language Testers in Europe
Founder members
ALTE levels
Can-do statements - The ALTE Can Do Project
ALTE - the Association of Language Testers in Europe - comprises language institutions which develop examinations designed to test ability in the mother tongue of their own country or region. Founded in 1989 by the Universities of Cambridge and Salamanca, ALTE has grown from eight to 28 members representing 24 European languages.

ALTE members which have collaborated on the development of BULATS:

Alliance Française
Alliance Française is a state-approved, non-profit making organisation, founded in 1883. It is dedicated to the teaching and dissemination of French language and culture, and has over 1300 centres serving 380,000 students in 133 countries. All over the world the Alliance offers a variety of cultural activities and courses at all levels for people of all ages and occupations. It also offers seven different diplomas in language, civilisation, literature, business French and commercial translation, all set and marked in Paris.
www.alliancefr.org

The Goethe-Institut
The Goethe-Institut is a non-profit-making, publicly funded organisation based in Munich. It was founded in 1951 to promote a wider knowledge of the German language abroad and to foster cultural co-operation with other countries. A world-wide organisation, it now has over 140 centres in 76 countries and helps over 108,000 students. The Goethe-Institut plays an important role in providing access to German language and culture all over the world and offers a range of German language examinations, ranging from 'threshold' (basic) level to very advanced, and leading to internationally recognised qualifications in German.
www.goethe.de

Universidad de Salamanca
Founded in 1218, the Universidad de Salamanca has a strong international scientific and intellectual reputation, due in part to its promotion of Spanish language and culture, and its teaching and research activities in the field of Spanish as a Foreign Language. The University is responsible for developing, setting, marking and evaluating the official Diplomas in Spanish as a Foreign Language which are issued and certified by the Instituto Cervantes.
www.usal.es

Cambridge ESOL
Cambridge ESOL has the world's leading range of qualifications in English for Speakers of Other Languages and delivers around 1.5 million assessments in 135 countries worldwide. Cambridge ESOL is part of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES). UCLES is one of the world's largest and best known educational and assessment agencies. It develops formal examination syllabuses across a broad range of academic and vocational subject areas which are used around the world as part of national education programmes. UCLES is a part of the University of Cambridge.
www.CambridgeESOL.org

For an up to date list of ALTE members, contact ALTE at www.alte.org

http://www.bulats.org/