by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Welcome to the second issue of cApStAn's monthly newsletter. This is our first newsletter after the coming into force, on the 25th of May, of the EU Regulation on Data Protection (GDPR). We at cApStAn ... Read more >
by Pisana Ferrari – cApStAn Ambassador to the Global Village
Welcome to the first issue of cApStAn's new-fangled monthly newsletter. What is different about it? Of course we'll share news about recent developments in the cApStAn ecosystem. We also intend to post snippets of information about ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner
A capstan is a winch, a rotating machine used to multiply the pulling force of seamen. It consists of a vertical spinning drum around which a cable is wound and is used on sailing ships. A five ton anchor can ... Read more >
by Debasmita Gosh - enterprise growth @ cApStAn//Marielle Lerner - linguist and senior project manager @cApStAn
The cApStAn team attended ATP’s annual conference on Innovations in Testing in the hill country outside historic San Antonio, Texas. The team was welcomed to what would be a high-energy, ... Read more >
by Steve Dept – cApStAn partner
The year 2016 has been quite exceptional for cApStAn, but this was partly due to the fact that the bulk of the work on one of our flagship projects, linguistic quality control in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment ... Read more >
On a cold morning in February, the cApStAn team in Brussels met for shooting. The film crew then followed us to the office, and they captured the dynamics of cApStAn at work. We didn't need to act. This is what we are like. Hard work, good vibes, the "excellence ... Read more >
The OECD Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (OECD/PIAAC) is a large-scale household survey of Adult skills such as literacy, numeracy and problem solving skills. The first cycle of PIAAC was conducted in over 40 countries, with 5000 adults aged 16 to 65 being interviewed in their homes ... Read more >
by Steve Dept - cApStAn partner
In the late nineties, Steve Dept was involved in two large-scale translation and adaptation projects. As it happens, he was particularly concerned with the time and resources spent on multiple revisions that did not seem to warrant incremental improvements in ... Read more >
Watermael-Boitsfort is a verdant residential suburb of Brussels, bordering the Forêt de Soignes, or Sonian Wood. Famous Belgian surrealist painter Paul Delvaux has lived here; fauvist painter and sculptor Rik Wouters lived just around the corner; and the district is still known to be an artsy place, with its own ... Read more >
The venue for the 2017 edition of the European Chapter of the Association of Test Publishers was again a rather classy affair, a five-star hotel with a panoramic view of the North Sea, some 40 km out of Amsterdam. The weather conditions were whimsical and the sea was unruly, so the ... Read more >