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NEWS ABOUT: Oxford

Oxford stories: 8 news summaries

Asia, UK Challenge US Supremacy in Higher Ed

US still has more universities in THE's top 200 than any other country—for now

Oct 9, 09 6:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The United States is home to more top-level universities than any other country in the world, this year’s survey by Times Higher Education confirms, but its advantage may not last forever. Although 54 of the top 200 schools are in the US, Asia is making remarkable progress: Japan has... More »

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China • Japan • United Kingdom • Seoul • United States • Oxford • college • university • Cambridge University • Seoul National University • Harvard University

Colleges Seek Kids' Opinions on Grapefruit, Perfect Crime

Quirky questions catch students off-guard

Dec 9, 08 12:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Bored with prospective students regurgitating textbook knowledge, Cambridge and Oxford have revamped their interview questions to include the abstract (Would you rather be a novel or a poem?), the existential (What does it mean to be happy?), and the downright crazy (How would you poison someone and get away with... More »

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college admissions • Cambridge • Oxford • private schools • interview • college preparation

Iran Impeaches Minister for Fake Oxford Degree

Key Ahmadinejad ally misspelled words on 'honorary doctorate'

Nov 4, 08 3:08 PM CST
(Newser) - It turns out lying on your resume is frowned upon in Tehran, too. Iran’s parliament gave Interior Minister Ali Kordan the boot today, for posing as an honorary Oxford law graduate, the Daily Telegraph reports. Kordan’s bogus diploma is riddled with typos and misspellings, declaring Kordan “intitled”... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Oxford • Iranian politics • forgery • Ali Kordan

 GOP Offered $10K to Prove Ayers Authored Obama Book

Goal was to prove Ayers penned 'Dreams From My Father'

Nov 2, 08 1:12 PM CST
(Newser) - A Republican congressman and his brother-in-law approached an Oxford philosophy don in an attempt to prove that Barack Obama's autobiography had been ghostwritten by William Ayers, the Times of London reports. Peter Millican says he was offered $10,000 to analyze Obama's Dreams From My Father and Ayers' Fugitive Days... More »

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Barack Obama • Oxford • memoir • ghostwrite • Dreams From My Father • Election 2008 • Bill Ayers

Humiliating Defeat for UK Ruling Party

Labour comes in 5th place in election on Brown's anniversary

Jun 27, 08 6:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - On the first anniversary of Gordon Brown's premiership, the Labour Party went down to a humiliating fifth-place finish in a special election near Oxford, reports the Times of London. Although the Tories had been expected to retain the seat vacated by new London mayor Boris Johnson, the ruling party came... More »

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United Kingdom • Gordon Brown • Labour Party • Oxford • Conservative Party • Britain

Holocaust Denier Roils Oxford Union

Invitation to debate prompts flurry of protests; MP resigns

Nov 26, 07 11:46 AM CST
(Newser) - A British MP tendered his resignation to the Oxford Union yesterday in protest of the debating society’s invitation to Holocaust denier David Irving and anti-immigration leader Nick Griffin to speak tonight, reports the Telegraph. Julian Lewis, the Conservative Party’s shadow defense minister, said he was “ashamed” of... More »

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Holocaust • Oxford • debates • Oxford Union • Julian Lewis • David Irving • Nick Griffin • Luke Tryl

Oxford Evacuates as Water Rises

UK flood disaster continues

Jul 25, 07 11:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of residents were evacuated from their Oxford homes today as water levels along the Thames neared their height. In the worst flooding the UK has seen in 60 years, hundreds of thousands are without drinking water, and power plants supplying many more are threatened. More »

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Gordon Brown • Oxford • flood • flooding • Gloucestershire • rationing • relief • Britain

Mouse Stem
Cell Discovery Speeds Cures

'Missing link' embryonic cell boosts fight against Parkinsons, diabetes

Jun 28, 07 4:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - British scientists have discovered a new type of stem cell in mice that's much closer to human embryonic stem cells, making them invaluable in the search for cures for diseases like Parkinson's and diabetes. Two independent teams from Oxford and Cambridge today revealed the "missing link" cells, which can... More »

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stem cell research • disease • stem cells • science • mice • cells • Parkinson's disease • epiblast • Cambridge • Oxford

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