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The CLB has also been used to identify the level of curricula, courses and requirements for entry into post-secondary training in some parts of Canada, e.g. in Manitoba, some Ontario community colleges and in British Columbia where it is part of an articulation agreement. See work done by [http://www.arucc.ca/conferences/arucc2008/CIITE%20-%20Systemic%20Change%20in%20Ontario's%20Colleges%20and%20Institutes%20Part%201.pdf CIITE].

Since 2002, the CLB has been used increasingly as a scale to help define the language demands that are used in some occupations and professions. The first benchmarking projects were done at the provincial level by Red River College in Manitoba. In 2002, CCLB did the first national benchmarking project to identify the language demands of the nursing profession.<ref>[http://www.language.ca/documents/FINAL_NURSING_REPORTS_cclb.pdf Benchmarking the English Language Demands of the Nursing Profession Across Canada]</ref> This was followed by the development of a national test to verify the language competency of internationally- trained nurses, the Canadian English Language Benchmarks Assessment for Nurses (CELBAN). Further research was done by the Centre for occupations in the following industries: Travel and hospitality, Trucking, Trades, Food and Grocery, and professions like Pharmacy, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, Audiology and Speech Language Pathology. Many of these profiles have been captured in documents called "Occupational Language Analyses" (OLAs) which reflect the communication skills extrapolated from occupational competency documents, the Essential Skills and aligned to the CLB/NCLC. Many of these are available on the website, [http://itsessential.ca%20 http://itsessential.ca ] or by contacting the CCLB. The CLB has also been correlated to the Essential Skills in a document called the [http://www.language.ca/index.cfm?Voir=sections&Id=17367&M=4038&Repertoire_No=2137991327 Relating Canadian Language Benchmarks to the Essential Skills].

== CLB and Assessment ==