The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Teaching has taken place at Oxford since 1096. Oxford has the largest volume of world-leading research in the country, rating top in the REF power rankings published by Research Fortnight. Oxford’s research involves more than 70 departments, almost 1,800 academic staff, more than 5,000 research and research support staff, and more than 5,600 graduate research students. The University has 38 independent colleges to which undergraduate and graduate students belong. Oxford has the highest research income from external sponsors of any UK university: £478.3m in 2013/14. The University has pioneered the successful commercial exploitation of academic research and invention, creating more than 100 companies, and files more patents each year than any other UK university.
Daniel D'Hotman, University of Oxford and Steven Hamilton, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The end of coal-fired generation in Australia is inevitable. But the federal government can do more to ensure an orderly transition to renewables – avoiding price spikes and supporting workers.
Pro-democracy activists and politicians are coming under increasing threat in Hong Kong.
EPA/Jérôme Favre
Predictions of up to 1 million Hongkongers taking up the UK’s offer of residency need more than a pinch of salt.
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Six Tuscan Poets by Giorgio Vasari, 1544. Dante Alighieri,
Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch, Cino da Pistoia, Guittone d'Arezzo and Guido Cavalcanti are depicted in the oil painting.
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The history of Italian literature cannot be understood without the vernacular poets. But their works were largely unknown until Lorenzo ‘the Magnificent’ sent a gift to the Prince of Naples.
The liberation of Yugoslavs and Jews from an Italian concentration camp on the Adriatic island of Rab, 8 Sept 1943.
Elvira Kohn/Croatian History Museum
Out of the 400 plus chemical compounds in the cannabis plant, CBD and THC are only the most well-known, and researched, cannabinoids.
Les passagers font la queue pour prendre le tramway éthiopien le 20 septembre 2015 (jour de l'inauguration) à Addis-Abeba. Ce premier tramway moderne en Afrique subsaharienne est un projet d'infrastructure massif financé par la Chine.
Mulugeta Ayene/AFP
Vingt ans après le premier forum Chine-Afrique, l’opinion publique africaine a globalement une image positive de la Chine. Une perception à prendre en compte par les gouvernements.
Master craftsman: David Cornwell (better known as John le Carré).
EPA-EFE/Guido Manuilo
Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford