An Oxford hospital has suspended all children's heart surgery following the deaths of four young patients in recent months. An investigation is now underway at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington, Oxford, according to a statement published on the hospital's website. It ...
<div><p>Playwright Alan Bennett has taken a sideswipe at the government and Oxford university over tuition fees as he bequeaths his literary archive to the Bodleian library in Oxford. </p><p>The sort of free state education that he had enjoyed was something today's students ...
<div><p>The scholarly work of one of the world's most famous libraries keeps being interrupted by cackles of laughter, as staff in the Bodleian at Oxford University get to grips with their latest treasure: a free gift of Alan Bennett's entire archive.</p><p>While other ...
<div><p>In the early noughties, over a period of four years and three big books, Niall Ferguson developed an argument for which he would become famous - or infamous, depending on your view. The British empire, he argued, had done good things as ...
<div><p>There are still too many inequalities in the education system which prevent children from disadvantaged backgrounds from applying to study for a degree, according to the universities minister, David Lammy. </p><p>Government, universities and schools need to increase efforts to tackle these inequalities, ...
<div><p>Laura Spence, the former comprehensive school pupil at the centre of a row over elitism after Oxford University rejected her has graduated with distinction from Cambridge.</p><p>The 26-year-old was awarded a degree in medicine, eight years after her rejection from Oxford sparked a ...
<div><p>An animal rights "fanatic" was behind the planting of homemade bombs at Oxford University as part of a "terrorist campaign" against a new research laboratory, a court heard today. </p><p>Mel Broughton, 48, is alleged to have planned and possibly carried out two ...
<div><p>Even as the swine flu's global progression slows, experts said on Tuesday the world must brace for a second wave of infection that, previous pandemics have shown, could be far more virulent.</p><p>All three of the major flu pandemics of the 20th century ...
<div><p>Oxford University said Tuesday that Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott had pulled out of the race to become its next poetry professor, reportedly amid dirty tricks linked to alleged sexual harassment.</p><p>Voting for the prestigious post -- which dates back to 1708 ...
<div id="subtitle">Once a thriving anomaly in Jim Crow South, the oldest black city in Alabama fights to survive</div><div><p>The cafes, the school and the roller rink are long gone from Alabama's oldest black city. Empty homes and businesses line the narrow streets.</p>< ...
