University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (Cambridge ESOL) offers the world’s leading range of certificated exams for learners of English. The exams are taken by over 1.5 million people each year and are accepted by educational organisations and employers throughout the world as proof of English language ability.

For most candidates, a Cambridge ESOL certificate is a passport to practical benefits – to gain entrance to a university or college, to improve their job prospects and to measure progress in English. Qualifications are available for English language learners at all levels and in all contexts, including General English, Business English, English for Young Learners and English for Academic Purposes.

The exams are linked to the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and Cambridge ESOL is an active member of ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe). ALTE aims to clarify how qualifications achieved in different languages correspond to each other and what they actually mean in practice, helping to make qualifications more usable and increasing people’s potential mobility.

Cambridge ESOL works closely with government bodies and other partners worldwide to deliver language assessment services tailored to local needs. Recent partnerships include collaboration with the Ministry of Education in Chile, the Shanghai Professional Testing Authority in China and the Society for Testing English Proficiency in Japan. The Cambridge ESOL exams are increasingly taken in state secondary and vocational schools, as well as in the language school sector and higher education.

Cambridge ESOL is one of the three partners (along with the British Council and IDP Education Australia) that jointly own and run IELTS.

Cambridge ESOL’s uncompromising commitment to quality, both in terms of assessment processes and of educational impact, is supported by the largest dedicated research team of any UK-based provider of English language assessment, and by an extensive pretesting programme which helps to ensure that the questions and tasks used in the exams provide an accurate measure of test takers’ true abilities.
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