Leeds Building Society has recruited a local retired A-level English teacher to give tuition designed to improve the standard of internal reports.
Clarke, who works as a poet, playwright, editor, creative writing tutor and translator is well known in schools across the UK as a set-text poet for GCSE and A-level English.
But he was a fast learner, and he has also picked up a fair level of English and Portuguese from his teammates while playing for J-League Kawasaki Frontale, where he posted 111 appearances and 46 goals.
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We're making sure that anyone studying a degree-level course has a proper grasp of the English language.
Scottish Conservative Party spokesman Murdo Fraser called for a reduction in business rates to below the English level to give Scottish firms a "competitive advantage".
Nonetheless, Congress should slash the corporate tax rate to a permanent level resembling that in Phil English's plan.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said new tests would be brought in to ensure that healthcare workers from other EU countries can speak English to a satisfactory level, an issue which is complicated by rules which prevent systemic language testing.
He said he hoped common sense would now prevail so that students could come into the UK to study English with a lower level in the language, equivalent to having studied it for 150 to 200 hours.
Last year, the BBC's tables showed 74% of 11-year-olds in England met the required levels in English and maths - a Level 4.
"Real, Barca and Italian giants like AC Milan have achieved a level of revenue from TV deals that English clubs will only realise next season, " said Fynn.
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The BBC tables will also show how schools fared with their high-fliers - the percentage of pupils achieving a Level 5 (the level expected of a 14-year-old) in maths and English.
Almost one in four (23.1%) maths teachers - around 7, 500 - do not have a relevant degree-level qualification, along with a fifth (20.1%) of English teachers - around 7, 300 in total.
As always for Heineken Cup matches, ticket sales had been brisk leading up to the match and the packed press benches indicated a high level of interest in the game as English accents threatened to outnumber those of the local media corps.
In the new single level tests being piloted in English reading, English writing and mathematics, the questions are all pitched at a certain level of understanding.
Moving to a higher level, can we justly conclude that clear English is significantly related to moral worth?
Beckham, who is widely admired for his capacity to shoot free kicks, became a star in the mid-90s with Manchester United, where he played at the top level for a decade and became a pillar of the English national team.
Glyn received an A in art and design and a B in history AS-level but Es in Welsh and English because he missed the exams to go on Big Brother.
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The definition of Level 5 for English given by the DCSF is "a knowing reader, who writes for effect".
For example at the entry level, workers with English skill may have been able to find a good job decades ago whereas now only the subset with more education would find a good job.
And if we lose the necessity of our narrow three A-level prescribed university route, will there be need for GCSEs or even English Baccalaureate Certificates - personally I cannot see one and we all know that some of us are questioning the validity of them anyway.
The party - which performed disappointingly in last year's English council elections - needed to make a "breakthrough" at a local level, Mr Farage acknowledged, if it was to build a platform for national election victories.
Obtaining a C-grade in GCSE English is a crucial benchmark required for pupils wanting to continue their studies at A-level or further education college.
Earnshaw scored 105 goals in 205 Bluebirds appearances after making his debut in 1998 and is the only player to have scored a hat-trick in all top four divisions of the English game, as well as at international level.
She has already attained straight As in history, politics English and law at AS Level and has been described by one of her tutors as 'a very nice human being'.
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