Testing providers have launched at-home English exams with real-time human monitoring to ensure test integrity, in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Global test provider ETS has launched instant scores for TOEFL iBT reading and listening exam sections to give test takers early performance indicators.

China's Ministry of Education and ETS have announced the mapping of the TOEFL iBT test to China’s Standards of English (CSE) framework.

Four Chinese international students in the US have been arrested on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States after they were accused of cheating on the ETS TOEFL exam.

Four men embroiled in a fraud scandal uncovered by BBC Panorama in 2014 have been sentenced to prison for rigging 800 TOEIC tests in an effort to help test-takers cheat the UK’s immigration system.

The National Union of Students held an emergency organising meeting this week as many international students are still caught up in detentions and deportations from the TOEIC fraud scandal.

The UK’s Home Affairs Committee has said that “serious questions” have been raised about the conduct of the Home Office over its treatment of international students in the ETS TOEIC cheating scandal.

A formal inquiry will be opened into the Home Office’s mistreatment of international students during its investigation into fraudulent ETS TOEIC English language exams.