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Figure 14
IELTS Sponsor Migration Institute of Australia
Source: Migration Institute of Australia (2017b)
The Migration Institute of Australia sponsorship deal is not a recent, isolated example of IELTS’s
infiltration of English language testing stakeholders. For example, in 2017 IELTS sponsored a
conference coordinated by the European Association for International Education (2017) as a
platinum grade sponsor. Figure 15 documents this claim.
Figure 15
Infiltration: European Association for International Education
Source: European Association for International Education (2017)