It’s not a case of being afraid of different ideas, more that some people want everyone to think as they do.
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The great thinker left thousands of comments in the margins of his personal library. Now these are being digitised and catalogued.
Back in the Middle Ages, as well as speaking English and Latin, many people living in Britain also spoke French.
Some say Britain should be proud of its imperial past. Oxford academics say it’s not so simple.
New findings reveal only 1.5% of all offers from Oxford and Cambridge went to black British A-level students.
The automation wave is coming for computer programmers – up to a point.
Our whole system of political campaigning needs a reboot.
Global economic realities shouldn’t deter African universities from continuing to push for massification. But they must do so armed with knowledge, lessons from elsewhere and strong funding models.
In many countries, students go to their nearest institution, but in England in particular, there is a strong historical precedent for going away to university.
Understanding how the flu virus copies itself could open a way to killing it.
Waugh spent his time at Oxford studying: not history, but the people who would populate his novels.
When the first universities opened in Europe, some 800 years ago, students literally borrowed from a chest and used their books as collateral.
Rhodes was an ardent white supremacist who believed Africans to be inferior. He intended his scholarships to be for white males only. This has since fallen away.
Oxford and Cambridge are to lose special funding for their undergraduate tutorial teaching system.
For every woman at the peak of the academic ladder there are many others who have been left behind.
The creation of extremely strong, flexible, high resolution displays has been made possible with the development of “nano-pixels…
A project started decades ago and crossing a range of academic disciplines to build the world’s most comprehensive dictionary…
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