The SKA had about 6,400 test takers in 2025, up 18.5 percent from the previous year. The exam emphasizes spoken communication, while the Test of Proficiency in Korean (Topik) does not include a ...

The Test of Proficiency in Korean will be accepted in Vietnam’s college admissions process, South Korea's Ministry of Education said Tuesday. Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training signed a ...

Vietnam will begin recognizing the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK) in its university admissions process this year, expanding the reach of the Korean government’s official language certification ...

Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

The Noughts & Crosses author is among the starry ambassadors for the campaign – one of the initiatives aimed at addressing the reading crisis Last night, the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, announced a ...

Queen tells reading campaign that listening counts too – and the publishing industry increasingly agrees Queen Camilla has met many disreputable characters in her time as a royal, but her encounter ...

Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

A version of this story appeared in the weekly Newsletter from the Editor. Sign up here. It was just after 5:00 a.m., and I was wide-awake in a hotel in Rome. Jet lag, certainly. I grabbed my phone, ...

If you read a book in 2025—just one book—you belong to an endangered species. Like honeybees and red wolves, the population of American readers, Lector americanus, has been declining for decades. The ...

The Lede Reporting and commentary on what you need to know today. This way of perceiving social reality—and particularly a person’s reading life—may seem inane, even deranged. But performative reading ...

As an avid reader – and an author, too – I’m disheartened by frequent reports of a decline in reading for pleasure among young people. So when a friend recently asked me whether her daughter was ...

Another study that takes a stab at trying to determine how much, or how little, Americans read has been released. The new report looked how reading for pleasure and reading with children fared between ...