A new preparation programme has been released ahead of the enhanced TOEFL iBT exam, which is set for an international rollout on January 21, 2026. The system introduces adaptive, AI-supported learning ...

The Government’s new reading test for year 8s will sit alongside new “diagnostic” maths and writing tests to help teachers identify gaps in learning, the Education Secretary has said. The final report ...

Students who plan to study, work, or immigrate to an English-speaking country must prove their English proficiency. The two most popular tests for this are IELTS and TOEFL. Both are widely accepted by ...

16 years + French web dev, father and cat-lover living in Montreal. I like to invent technical and fictional things. 16 years + French web dev, father and cat-lover living in Montreal. I like to ...

Writing has always been the way I process ideas—I often say, “I think with a pencil.” Early in my career, I wrote about my practice simply for myself as a way to keep perspective, capture new ideas, ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Foreign nationals hoping to immigrate to Canada will soon have another option to prove their English proficiency. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has confirmed it will accept the ...

Which AI tools excel at email and other short-form writing? Here's how Apple Intelligence, Grammarly, and others performed in turning rough drafts into polished prose. I'm a content specialist with ...

From 2026, the TOEFL exam will adopt AI-assisted features for a more personalized test experience. Changes include a multi-stage adaptive design for reading and listening sections and a new score ...

There are lots of AI helpers out there now. But only one can write emails as well as you. To figure out which artificial intelligence assistant is worth your time and money, I set up an old-fashioned ...

About a dozen pages into Michelle de Kretser’s new novel, “Theory & Practice,” she runs into the granite wall between truth and fiction. The narrative involves a young man dreaming of a woman. He has ...

In 1956, the editor William Maxwell was having some trouble with beetles in his roses. “[W]hen I come on the shreds of one that was exquisite in the morning and raddled by noon,” he wrote to one of ...