Oxford University Press is launching a new digitally-delivered English language proficiency test for learners over 16, the Oxford Test of English.

Among the 900 new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary are binge-watching, Impostor Syndrome and the Bechdel test.

PEOPLE who need to get a Covid test before travelling abroad can now do so in Oxford. Cignpost ExpressTest has opened a new Covid-19 screening service at Westgate Centre.

Oxford University intends to introduce an "aptitude test" for history courses, for students applying this autumn. A test for would-be English undergraduates is also being contemplated, for the ...

Paramedics will test patients for coronavirus at home in a pilot aimed at preventing "bottleneck" delays during hospital transfers. Tests to patients going into Covid and non-Covid wards have been ...

Well, put yourself to the test and see how you get on with our special GCSE quiz. These questions have been put together from AQA past papers for the English Language GCSE and is one of the few ...

A tricky challenge created by Anna Claro for US-based trivia website Playbuzz is putting the internet's knowledge of the English language to the test with phrases found in the Oxford Dictionary.

Oxford English Centre in the UK – a 30-year old independent English language school – is under new ownership. It will remain an independent school.

The first volunteers have received doses of vaccine, or a placebo, in Oxford Volunteers are set to be infected with a highly contagious bacteria to test a new paratyphoid vaccine. The study in ...

The influence of Korean culture has reached the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary: 26 new words related to Korean culture were added and 11 words were revised.

Students are facing a battery of new tests to get into Oxford and Cambridge amid continuing fears that A-levels fail to mark out the best candidates.

For Oxford, English tests must be completed by 31 July in the year you receive your offer, even if you are applying for deferred entry. Exemptions for non-native speakers taking a test for Oxford ...