6 h. ago Nearly all University of Oxford students screened for ADHD are told they have it after just 90 minute assessment

Statistics show the UK's top university has an increasingly higher number of disabled people than the rest of the higher education sector - amounting to nearly 1 in 3.

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67 h. ago University of Oxford historian threatened with deportation after spending 691 days over the past decade in India doing research

University of Oxford historian Manikarnika Dutta, 37, was threatened with deportation after spending 691 days over the past decade in India doing research - on India.

Events

3 d. ago Oxford historian faces deportation from UK after doing research on India in India

Home Office told Manikarnika Dutta to quit Britain for spending too many days abroad for studyA high-achieving academic has been threatened with deportation from the UK because the Home Office says she has spent too many days conducting her research requiring access to historic Indian archives stored in India.Manikarnika Dutta, 37, a historian, conducted the research as part of her academic commitments to the University of Oxford, which involved studying archives in cities in India and attending a series of international conferences. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘Brain pacemakers’: implants to be tested to help alcohol and opioid addicts

Trial will determine whether electrical pulses can control and decrease yearningsSurgeons are to put implants into the brains of alcoholics and opioid addicts in a trial aimed at testing the use of electrical impulses to combat drink and drug cravings.The technique is already used to help patients control some of the effects of Parkinson’s disease, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Now a group of doctors and researchers – from Cambridge and Oxford universities and King’s College London – are preparing to use deep brain stimulation to try to decrease addicts’ yearnings and to boost their self-control. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago UN judge Lydia Mugambe convicted of forcing young woman to become slave

United Nations judge Lydia Mugambe, 49, was accused of taking "advantage of her status" over the woman in the "most egregious way", while she studied for a PhD in law at the University of Oxford

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6 d. ago New estimate ‘shows scale of exploitation on Wild West care visa route’

More than 39,000 workers were associated with sponsors who had their licences revoked in recent years.

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6 d. ago The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trialsSome years ago in the pages of the Guardian, we sounded the alarm about the increasing attention being paid to solar geoengineering – a barking mad scheme to cancel global heating by putting pollutants in the atmosphere that dim the sun by reflecting some sunlight back to space.In one widely touted proposition, fleets of aircraft would continually inject sulphur compounds into the upper atmosphere, simulating the effects of a massive array of volcanoes erupting continuously. In essence, we have broken the climate by releasing gigatonnes of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide, and solar geoengineering proposes to “fix” it by breaking a very different part of the climate system.Raymond T Pierrehumbert FRS is professor of planetary physics at the University of Oxford. He is an author of the 2015 US National Academy of Sciences report on climate interventionMichael E Mann F...

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6 d. ago The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann

Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trialsSome years ago in the pages of the Guardian, we sounded the alarm about the increasing attention being paid to solar geoengineering – a barking mad scheme to cancel global heating by putting pollutants in the atmosphere that dim the sun by reflecting some sunlight back to space.In one widely touted proposition, fleets of aircraft would continually inject sulphur compounds into the upper atmosphere, simulating the effects of a massive array of volcanoes erupting continuously. In essence, we have broken the climate by releasing gigatonnes of fossil-fuel carbon dioxide, and solar geoengineering proposes to “fix” it by breaking a very different part of the climate system.Raymond T Pierrehumbert FRS is professor of planetary physics at the University of Oxford. He is an author of the 2015 US National Academy of Sciences report on climate interventionMichael E Mann F...

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1 week ago Allowing physician associates to take on doctors’ responsibilities ‘costs lives’

The Royal College of Physicians and the British Medical Association (BMA) are among those who have raised concerns about the use of PAs and AAs.

Society

1 week ago 'Little evidence' to suggest employing physician associates in the NHS is safe or improves patient care, review finds

Experts at Oxford University said studies relating the role of PAs and anaesthetic associates (AAs) (pictured, file photo) were severely lacking.

Science

1 week ago Top UK medic backs cousin marriages, claiming a ban would violate people's 'freedoms', despite risk of inbreeding

Professor Dominic Wilkinson, an NHS medic and ethics expert at the University of Oxford, said such couples should be offered taxpayer funded screening to help them decide on having children.

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1 week ago ‘We’re going backwards’: the Black student unions forced to close on US campuses

Black student unions at US colleges are fighting to stay in operation as state laws targeting DEI initiatives threaten their existenceFor Nevaeh Parker, the president of the Black student union (BSU) at the University of Utah, Black History Month is usually a buzzing time on campus.The school’s BSU hosts several events – kickback parties and movie screenings – throughout the month. The Black cultural center, where students would usually congregate and attend activities, would be full. And the month’s crown jewel would typically be a conference at the college for Black high schoolers in the area. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘We’re going backwards’: the Black student unions being defunded on US campuses

Black student unions at US colleges are fighting to stay in operation as state laws targeting DEI initiatives threaten their existenceFor Nevaeh Parker, the president of the Black student union (BSU) at the University of Utah, Black History Month is usually a buzzing time on campus.The school’s BSU hosts several events – kickback parties and movie screenings – throughout the month. The Black cultural center, where students would usually congregate and attend activities, would be full. And the month’s crown jewel would typically be a conference at the college for Black high schoolers in the area. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago University College London PhD student found dead in his home in Oxford

University College London PhD student found dead in his home in Oxford  The Tab

Society

2 w. ago Oxbridge academics lead campaign to embed climate change into all school subjects as part of Labour's curriculum review

A coalition of 29 Oxford and Cambridge professors have joined dozens of others from top universities in signing a letter to Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson.

Politics

2 w. ago Enforced returns from UK jump 28% to highest annual figure in six years

There were 4,428 enforced returns in the second half of 2024, compared with 3,736 in the first six months.

Politics

2 w. ago NASA to send spacecraft to the Moon in search of hidden water

The Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft, which will launch from Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, carries a state-of-the-art camera designed by a team of University of Oxford scientists

Technology

3 w. ago Police find body in River Thames in search for missing Oxford student who vanished more than three weeks ago

Police have found a body in the River Thames nearly a month after a University of Oxford student vanished in the early hours of the morning.

Events

3 w. ago Tattooed YouTuber replaces Rachel Riley on Countdown in shock shake

A change from the usual glamorous number expert Rachel, Cambridge and Oxford university mathematics boffin, Dr Tom Crawford, will be taking her place.

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3 w. ago William Hague attacks students' 'comfort blankets of cancellation' and vows to protect free speech as former Tory leader becomes 160th Chancellor of Oxford University

The former Tory leader said it was 'of paramount importance' to protect the free exchange of ideas as he was officially admitted to the role.

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