Shortly before he disembarked for France to fight in the British Army during the First World War, Lewis failed his “fearsome” qualifying examination in algebra to continue his studies at Oxford. “He ...

Amid growing political unrest in Germany, Albert Einstein paid three short visits to Oxford in the early 1930s. Andrew Robinson reveals why this celebrated physicist travelled to Britain and how ...

Oxford University will replace its subject-specific entrance exams with standardised tests from 2027, aligning with assessments used by Cambridge and Imperial. The move aims to simplify applications ...

The gender gap in education is still a glaring and unfortunate reality. Women have to fight different odds to make their presence felt in the academic world, and however much one may wish to believe, ...

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We all studied mathematics: it has been a core part of the school curriculum from the very first. However, it is not just a subject for the classroom – maths has a huge range of applications across ...