IELTS sponsors NAFSA plenary with Ishmeal Beah
IELTS was proud to sponsor a key plenary at the 60th
NAFSA: Association of International
Educators Annual Conference in Washington DC, USA in May this
year.
Over 4,000 delegates attended the plenary session with
Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier in Sierra Leone
whose best selling book 'A Long Way Gone' about his own
experiences has become a worldwide best-seller. In his inspiring
talk Beah spoke of the plight of children affected by war around
the world and the importance of international education and
exchange for fostering global understanding and peace.
The plenary was just one of the contributions IELTS made to this
event - the largest NAFSA Annual Conference to date, with over
9,300 delegates from 113 countries. Beryl Meiron, Executive
Director, IELTS International reported that in all, over 1000
people visited the IELTS stand over the three and a half days of
the Conference. This included representatives of many of the 1,800
universities and colleges in the USA that recognise IELTS, and of
11 more institutions that confirmed during the event that they now
formally recognise IELTS.
NAFSA is the world’s leading association in the field of
international education and exchange. It is a member organization
promoting international education and providing professional
development opportunities to the field with close to 10,000
members.
