Language skills required by students at tertiary institutions Every year a lot of overseas students go to english-language institutions such as colleges and universities to start their tertiary studies. However it is important to say that it is necessary to have some required skills in english language to be accepted at the insitution and can undertake and pass all the classes the students will be enrolled. This required skills could be the facility to write essays, a widely vocabulary that includes academic words used at engineering and science topics and a high comprehension reading skill that can provide the facility to understand a lot of information included in books in a relatively short time. In addition, all the students may sit an english test to evaluate their english-language skills to make sure they are able to take tertiary studies on english language.