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