13 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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51 h. ago India and New Zealand revive free trade talks after a decade as Luxon visits Delhi

Christopher Luxon touts ‘major breakthrough’ in trade talks stalled since 2015

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3 d. 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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4 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 Team Trump is spending $200 million on ad campaign so migrants deport themselves

The department has fired more than 400 federal staffers in the last month

Economics

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.

Politics

7 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...

Science

7 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...

Science

7 d. ago German tourists’ ordeal reportedly ending as they are returned from US detention

Jessica Brösche to join Lucas Sielaff, who is reported to have returned to Germany on 6 MarchA German tourist detained by US immigration authorities is due to be deported back to Germany on Tuesday after spending more than six weeks in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement.Jessica Brösche, a 29-year-old tattoo artist from Berlin, will reportedly join Lucas Sielaff, 25, from Bad Brida in Saxony Anhalt, who is reported to have returned to Germany on 6 March, after being arrested at the Mexican border on 18 February before being detained for almost two weeks. Continue reading...

Economics

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

2 w. 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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2 w. ago Fears Scot could be imprisoned in India 'for decades' after court refuses bail

Brother of Sikh activist says continued detention is a ‘glaring injustice’

Events

2 w. ago I’ve lived with painful periods for 20 years, could ayurveda be the answer?

After decades of pain, I checked into a health retreat in India to put Ayurvedic wisdom to the test

Politics

2 w. ago Donald Trump is more popular than ever, according to shock poll, as he prepares for address to Congress

President Donald Trump 's rapid pace of spending cuts, deportations and foreign policy flexes are winning him new admirers, according to a new DailyMail.com poll.

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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