By taking the Online Linguistic Support (OLS) language assessment, Erasmus+ participants will determine in an easy and simple way their proficiency in the language that they will use whilst studying, working or volunteering abroad.
The OLS is available for Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, which are the main languages for about 90% of all Erasmus+ exchanges.
To ensure that participants make the most out of their period abroad, the OLS language assessment is compulsory for Erasmus+ higher education students and European Voluntary Service (EVS) volunteers going abroad for more than two months.
Based on their assessment results, participants may also be offered an online language course to help them improve their skills, as well as tutoring, forums, and tips from former Erasmus+ participants.
For further information, visit the Erasmus+ official website and the OLS website . More...

ACA is proud to announce that our latest study on English-Taught Programmes (ETPs) is now available online free of charge (as PDF). We also remind that hard copies are ready to be purchased by placing an order through the ACA Secretariat or directly through the Publisher - Lemmens. More...

By Paul Strickland. The modern English department began to take shape in the mid-19th century. As science gained in prestige then and religion lost much of its authority in society, the best of English literature came to be sacred texts for study and analysis, and some English professors could even act like clerics. Matthew Arnold, the mid-century British poet and critic, was a representative humanist in his approach to literature. Dr. William Robbins, a mid-20th-century Arnold scholar and English professor at UBC, emphasized his humanistic faith in class.
However, from the early part of the 20th century, the political leanings of some literary modernists cast doubt on the idea that the study of literature would always lead to society’s adoption of humane, democratic values. The poets T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound came to endorse fascism, and Pound broadcast his anti-democratic and anti-Semitic views on Italian fascist government radio in Rome during the early 1940s. A Canadian neo-Arnoldian professor and critic, Louis Dudek of McGill, was considered by some to be a little too philosophically close to Pound before he repudiated Pound’s views late in life. More...