ESB News - Spring Summer 2021

ESB Website has a Facelift!

Speech Website

Improvements

Easier to navigate and more user friendly, we have designed several new webpages to provide a better experience for users who wish to find out about ESB assessments. With the improved layout and attractive and simple design, ESB hopes its centres will enjoy browsing through its new pages!

New features include:

Updated and simplified homepage design ESB ’ s homepage is now easier to navigate and includes personalised videos from ESB ’ s Chief Executive, Tina Renshaw introducing ESB ’ s three product lines: Speech, ESOL International and ESOL Skills for Life. On the homepage you will find a ‘ Take our assessments today! ’ button, so by a simple click, you are immediately directed to a page with information relating to the full ESB journey together with details about how to start taking ESB assessments.

Why choose our assessments? Whether you are interested in ESB ’ s Speech, ESOL International or ESOL Skills for Life qualifications,

browse these pages to find out more information about the Skills , Experiences and Outcomes that these assessments are able to offer.

Explore our qualifications Comprehensive information highlighting the provision of our Speech, ESOL International and ESOL Skills for Life qualifications can be found on these pages. Discover more about the qualifications ESB offers including relevant qualification information and FAQs about qualification preparation time, target learner groups, UCAS tariff points, reasonable adjustments, how to download qualification specifications and which of our qualifications are recognised and regulated. All the information is here to help you choose which ESB qualifications would best suit your learners!

Funding Pages Here, you can read about the funding options available for your centre. You can learn about your eligibility for our Christabel Burniston Fund or whether you qualify for External Funding options.

ESB Chief Executive, Tina, says: ‘ We ’ re proud of our new website developments. There is a whole host of impactful changes, all designed to make the experience of our website that much better for our centres and learners. We wanted to give our centres the opportunity to get to know us better and who we are as an organisation, with a more personalised approach. ‘ Shifting to a customer-centric layout, we want centres to be able to easily locate the information they need. There is also a greater emphasis on the skills, experience and positive outcomes that our ESB assessments provide, highlighting the progressive benefits that ESB assessments provide learners within the future, well beyond the classroom. ’’

Your feedback is very important to ESB as it strives to develop a website that is valuable to its centres and learners so please forward any questions, comments or feedback to comms@esbuk.org.

ESB is continuing to work on further improving the website, so keep an eye out for more developments in the coming months. Enjoy browsing here !.........

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