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By Global Voices in Language Education Editorial Team In June 2026, the UK qualifications regulator Ofqual imposed a £875,000 fine on Cambridge English following the discovery of automated scoring errors that affected tens of thousands of IELTS candidates worldwide. While the financial penalty itself attracted considerable media attention, the incident raises much broader questions about trust, accountability, and the growing reliance on technology in high-stakes language ass

Mary Jo Lubrano is Associate Director (Language Education and Research) at the Center for Language Study. She holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership in Second Language Acquisition and two M.A. degrees—one in Foreign Language Education and the other in Applied Linguistics (Language Testing). She joined the CLS in 2013 as Language Testing Specialist and was promoted to Associate Director in 2017. In her current role, she provides professional development for language instruct