News from CEL Cambridge English Languages

The CEL local management and testing Team welcome you all to join us at the Bern Testing Location and IELTS Centre Open Day.

We are delighted to announce Cambridge English Digital (computer based) qualifications in Switzerland. Find out more about new dates, Electronic Test Report Forms from IELTS and our Bern centre open day in April.

We are very proud to announce the Finalist for outstanding Commitment to Excellence Award for CEL-Cambridge English Languages.

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We are happy to announce that we have received the following awards at the IELTS IDP Annual Conference in Bali. Thanks to the whole team for this great achievement!

Beginning in April 2024, we can offer the exams you want, when you want!

Successful B1 Preliminary for Schools and B2 First for Schools exam day.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment have announced a Linguaskill Business information webinar.

IDP IELTS was with Cambridge University Press & Assessment in November 2022 for the IELTS Delivery Working Group Meeting 2022.

CEL - Cambridge English Languages, the first to offer computer delivered IELTS tests in Switzerland, is proud to announce that we now also offer the IELTS UKVI and IELTS Life Skills tests in Switzerland!

Since Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press – both previously separate departments of the University of Cambridge – merged on 1 August 2021, the combined organisation has focused relentlessly on serving learners, teachers and researchers better.

3T Languages is a language service set up for the needs of the modern professional in mind. Whether it be English, German or French, our qualified team of teachers are prepared to help your business with the demands of modern communication, combining assessment and learning.

Do you aspire to be an English teacher? CELTA is the most recognised English teaching qualification in the world. Whether you are a new teacher, or you [...]

Cambridge English Qualifications and IELTS as a replacement for the retired Business (BEC) We only recommend exams and tests that have been awarded the prestigious [...]

We are pleased to announce that the programme for the upcoming 2022 Professional Development Day "Turning the Page" in Bern on Saturday, 10 September 2022 is now available!

Congratulations to all the C2 Advanced and C1 Proficiency candidates from Kantonsschule Wil!

Congratulations to Khia Offenhauser, who is joining the Centre Exams Manager Karen Kerley as Centre Exam Manager Assistant / CEL – IDP IELTS / OET – Medical English Tutor per June 1st, and from August 2nd we warmly welcome new in our team Don Ayer CEL Exams Testing Manager.

I would like to invite you and your colleagues to attend our online conference for English teachers "Lessons for the Future" to be held on 11 June 2022. This event is aimed at honoring teachers worldwide who continue to teach no matter what the circumstances are.

CEL-Cambridge English Languages is proud to announce that further to two full inspections early May 2022, our rating was "Excellent". We were congratulated on...

Covid Update 31.03.2022 Exam Testing will take place using the current rules from the Swiss National and regional authorities. Please ensure when registering that you are aware [...]

We thank the team of Exam Center Swiss Midlands for helping CEL-Cambridge English Languages GmbH bring the 5-star Cambridge Exam service to Handelschule KV Aarau.

A warm welcome to Janet Otero, Administrator for CEL and Exam Center Swiss Midlands, Handelsschule KV Aarau. The first Cambridge English exam C2 Proficiency organised and run on 19.2.22 by Janet. "It was a great joy to organize the first Cambridge exams for CEL at the Exam Center Swiss Midlands in Aarau...

Cambridge Assessment English wrote to the Swiss market on 6 December 2021 to let you know that the last exam sessions for our Cambridge English Qualifications for Business (BEC) will be in December 2023 for computer-based sessions and June 2024 for paper-based. This affects B1 Business Preliminary, B2 Business Vantage and C1 Business Higher.

Pop up computer based exams launched! We successfully launched Pop-up computer based Cambridge exams on Friday, 10 December 2021! Interested in a pop up computer based exam [...]

IELTS Writing test – preparing your students for writing success We are looking forward to welcoming you at our CEL-Cambridge English Languages stand at the 2022 Annual Conference and [...]

We are offering Admissions Tests now CEL-Cambridge English Languages is an official Admissions Centre offering the computer based and paper based Admission Tests in Switzerland. Depending on [...]

The ETAS Professional Development Day is just around the corner We are looking forward to welcoming everyone at our stand at the International School in Gümlingen (Bern) [...]

Could your students’ listening skills be better? Listening can be one of the last language skills to develop. Our latest guides for teachers have all you need [...]

How you can develop your learners' reading skills Our latest guides for teachers have all the information you need to start developing the reading skills of older [...]

New computer-based C1 Advanced and B2 First exams in Bern You find below our dates for computer-based C1 Advanced and B2 First exams, which take place now [...]

Join us for our free teacher webinars. We’re hosting sessions on our new mock test toolkit and our exciting new language learning game in Minecraft.

New from Cambridge Assessment English. Vocabulary Games and Activities for CEFR Levels B1/B2. Word games grouped by topic to help build student vocabulary.

The realities of exam preparation: differing abilities and differing motivations Join us for our spring webinar and guest speaker and teacher trainer Olha Madylus. Olha's session 'The [...]

Join for free professional English lessons in Spring and Autumn. Our teachers in training (CELTA) will give groups lessons online.

Study tips and exam advice in our new candidate booklets Help learners feel prepared, confident and ready for their exams with our Information for candidates booklets for [...]

English Language Teaching catalogue A digital exploration of Cambridge learning materials. Cambridge University Press 2021 catalogue, the comprehensive guide to Cambridge ELT materials, is now available. Digital [...]

Covid Update Following the latest Swiss Federal Council and Cantonal announcements, the measures listed below apply. Our scheduled IELTS tests, Cambridge English exams and Teacher Training awards [...]

Welcome on our new website. Feel free to contact us and give feedback. We are happy to help out with any questions too.

What does plurilingualism mean for language assessment? Want to understand more about plurilingualism? Our latest research edition discusses what it means and how it is used in [...]

What does the future of learning and assessment hold? Cambridge Assessment English is developing a vision for what the future of learning and assessment holds and would [...]

Interpreting PISA - Understanding national educational improvement Portugal has been highlighted as a success story in curriculum and educational reform, in particular due to the country’s leap [...]