Interviewer: First Certificate, Advanced, Proficiency, Trinity and IELTS there is no shortage of English language qualifications on the market at the moment if you need a certificate to impress an employer or enrich your CV. But now there’s yet another one – BULATS. Mark Cohen, who is training manager with a large international banking group, has just introduced the BULATS exam as part of the corporate training programme in his organisation. So, Mark, two questions to kick off with, first why another exam? And secondly, why BULATS? Mark Cohen: Well, first of all let me say that I’m lucky in that I work for a company who invest a lot in training and we see language training as an essential part of that. We have offices in over two dozen countries worldwide, so obviously our staff use a lot of different languages - not to mention our external clients! We do a lot of language training, and the exams you mention are all fine in their place, but they’re not really what we’re looking for. Interviewer: How do you mean? Mark Cohen: All they do is show that you have achieved a certain level. Interviewer: And what are you looking for? Mark Cohen: Well this is where BULATS comes in, what we need to find out is not the language level of the people who work for us, but their ability to speak that language. And it is exactly this that the BULATS exam tests.