Our network
The quality of our exams and the positive impact we have in over 130 countries depends on the work of thousands of professionals. These include Cambridge ESOL’s permanent staff of around 400, the staff in over 2,700 centres and more than 50,000 preparation centres, as well as tens of thousands of examiners, teachers and publishers.
A global reach
Our global network includes:
Exam centres
There are around 2,700 authorised exam centres providing Cambridge English exams worldwide. Cambridge ESOL is committed to making sure we offer the highest security and quality to safeguard the fairness of our tests. We achieve this by working closely with our exam centres to ensure they meet our exacting quality standards, and giving them help and support to offer the best possible service to test takers.
Examiners
Our international reputation for excellence, reliability and fairness in language assessment depends on the high quality and professionalism of our examiners around the world.
Cambridge ESOL takes great care to ensure that the marking of all papers is fair and standardised. All examiners must meet our minimum professional requirements. They undergo rigorous training and are closely monitored by Team Leaders.
Teachers
As part of our mission to provide learners throughout the world with access to language assessment of the highest possible quality, giving support to teachers is a high priority. By providing teachers with the knowledge and skills they need to help prepare candidates more effectively, we raise the standards of language teaching and improve opportunities for test takers, while also making make life easier (and more rewarding) for teachers.
Publishers
Cambridge ESOL works with a wide range of publishers throughout the world. These publishers produce a huge range of course books, practice tests and learning resources in the UK and overseas to help prepare candidates for Cambridge English exams – there are several hundred titles specifically linked to our qualifications.
We also collaborate with publishers on a range of other activities to support our exams, such as teacher seminars, which can be found on the Teacher Support website.
In addition, Cambridge ESOL and Cambridge University Press work together on projects such as the Studies in Language Testing series, and on the development of the Cambridge Learner Corpus (CLC).
