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.

The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable.

Oxford’s Word of the Year is based on usage evidence drawn from its continually updated corpus of some 26 billion words, which is drawn from news sources across the English-speaking world.

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 ...

Fact Check Back in 2013, as part of a quarterly online update, the Oxford Dictionary added the word “twerk” to its collection. The addition came after Miley Cyrus’ widely discussed ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

Oxford scientists working out of the school’s Department of Physics have developed a new type of COVID-19 test that can detect SARS-CoV-2 with a high degree of accuracy, directly in samples ...