Workplace Communication for Skilled Migrants, formally “English for Professional Purposes ELIN 941”, is a course within the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington. the paper first describes the initial stakeholders in the programme and...

This paper attempts a cost/benefit analysis of the Victoria University of Wellington course, “Workplace Communication for Skilled Migrants”, more formally described as “English for Professional Purposes – ELIN 941”, and popularly known as “The Skilled Migrant Programme”