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The OPT replaced the now retired Quick Placement Test, a CD-ROM test provided in partnership with Cambridge English. The success of the Oxford Placement Test led to the design of the Oxford Test of English, and online computer-adaptive English Proficiency test, used as proof of English ability for university entry and employment. [1]
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The University of Oxford was one of the founders, in the late 19th century, of the so-called 'extension' movement, wherein universities began to offer educational opportunities to adult learners outside their traditional student base. [3] The University of Oxford Standing Committee of the Delegacy of Local Examinations was established in 1878. [4]
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English was first published in 1948; the current edition is the tenth. The following editions exist:
Wolsey Hall Oxford was founded in 1894. [6]Wolsey Hall occupied premises in St Aldates, Oxford from 1907, moving to 66 Banbury Road, Oxford in 1930. [7]In 1942, Wolsey Hall was appointed by the War Office [8] to provide courses for the armed forces, and during the remaining war years it was a key supplier of courses to members of the British Armed Services.
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The Oxbridge tutorial system was established in the 1800s at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. [1] It is still practised today, and consists of undergraduate students being taught by college fellows, or sometimes doctoral students and post-docs [2]) in groups of one to three on a weekly basis.