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Oxford University Press Announces New Sanskrit-Hindi-English Dictionary

Oxford University Press (OUP) announced the launch of its trilingual Sanskrit-Hindi-English dictionary containing 25,000 words. It was published in collaboration with Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit...

No admissions tests for English and Geography in 2024

The University of Oxford's Faculty of English and Faculty of Geography and Environment have confirmed that neither the English Language Admissions Test (ELAT), nor...

Multiple subjects to introduce typed exams

The University has recently confirmed that multiple Preliminary Exams and Finals will be assessed as in-person, computer based exams in 2023/24. These include English,...

Distress among applicants as admission tests mix-up papers

Oxford’s first day of admission testing has led to distress amongst applicants. The paper for  the English Literature Assessment Test (ELAT) was reportedly from...

Bad language: the value of non-standard English

In many classrooms, slang is something forbidden, a recent example being  a London secondary school’s decision to ban words such as ‘bare’, and fillers...

Forgive me, Katherine Mansfield, for I have sinned.

"The essay I would go on to write, and, reader, the article I had drafted and readied for this very publication, would, I see now, have Mansfield, alongside pretty much every other writer of fiction, willing to cross both space and time in order to beat me around the head with a copy of Crime and Punishment."

Oxford honours academic who fled Nazis and succeeded Tolkien

"Eric modeled the unlimited potential of the imagination in everything he did."

The tradition of ignorance in English travel writing

The linguistic and cultural superiority that lives on into the digital age

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