{"id":14051,"date":"2013-10-11T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14051"},"modified":"2013-10-11T14:12:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T13:12:12","slug":"driving-tests-only-in-english-and-welsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14051","title":{"rendered":"Driving Tests Only In English (And Welsh)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That previous (well, previous to the previous) story about tests only being carried out in English from next year is hot news at the moment. A <a title=\"Driving test candidates must sit exam in English or Welsh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-24487707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow up story from the Beeb<\/a> tells how Allyson Ng cheated on tests she was acting as interpreter for by giving the answers to pupils. The licences of 94 people were revoked as a result. Her operation was mainly based in Cardiff, with a small number in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p>Ng was charging people \u00a3110 a time for her \u201cservices\u201d. DSA staff became suspicious when there was a sudden upturn in those using her.<\/p>\n<p>She was jailed for 12 months for fraud.<\/p>\n<p>However, this story illustrates one big reason why it is important that foreign language tests are eliminated as soon as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That previous (well, previous to the previous) story about tests only being carried out in English from next year is hot news at the moment. A follow up story from the Beeb tells how Allyson Ng cheated on tests she was acting as interpreter for by giving the answers to pupils. The licences of 94 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,81,85,87,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-driving-test-related","category-dsa-related","category-news","category-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}