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An ESOL crisis in Scotland – and what to do about it
Contact us Back to Menu ↩ Evidencing the ESOL Crisis: Towards a Vision for ESOL in Scotland Francesca Stella and Meg Wishart, University of Glasgow
October 29, 2026
These four countries each have a single national nursing regulator, so their requirements compare directly.
There is no single national nursing regulator. Every province (except Quebec, which uses OIIQ) routes applicants through the National Nursing Assessment Service (NNAS) first, then its own provincial college sets the final English benchmark. Typical figures:
Nursing licensure is set state-by-state, and some states — New York is the clearest example — require no separate English test at all, treating a pass on the NCLEX-RN exam (which is in English) as sufficient proof. However, almost every internationally-educated nurse will still need CGFNS VisaScreen® certification to obtain the actual occupational visa, regardless of state, which functions as the de facto national floor:
Contact us Back to Menu ↩ Evidencing the ESOL Crisis: Towards a Vision for ESOL in Scotland Francesca Stella and Meg Wishart, University of Glasgow
Contact us Back to Menu ↩ Train the ear first If you want to learn a language well, start by listening to how it sounds.
Contact us Back to Menu ↩ Four recently published reports look at ESOL from quite different angles but have remarkably similar conclusions. The APPG on