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.
We should be thinking about airborne transmission of coronavirus.
Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia before passing the border control at the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, where he was subsequently arrested.
EPA-EFE/Kira Yarmysch
The opposition leader's return from poisoning will put pressure on the Russian president in a crucial election year.
Les résistances des micro-organismes aux vaccins existent, mais elles sont plus rares que celle qui leur permettent d’échapper aux médicaments.
Paulo Cunha/EPA
Comment se met en place la résistance aux médicaments ? Pourquoi la résistance aux vaccins est-elle si rare ?
Le vaccin d'Oxford fonctionne en acheminant la séquence génétique de la protéine de pointe du SRAS-CoV-2 aux cellules de l'organisme.
Université d'Oxford
La mise au point d’un vaccin prend normalement des décennies. Dans le cas de la Covid-19, elle a été réalisé en 12 mois, sans faire de concession. Voici comment ont procédé les chercheurs d’Oxford.
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
Senior Research Fellow, Departmental Lecturer and Director of Evidence-Based Healthcare DPhil Programme, Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford
Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford