Cate Blanchett to become a visiting professor at Oxford University
Cate called it ‘an electrifying opportunity for me to be in direct, robust creative dialogue with the next generation of thinkers and creative Doers’
Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities by research income – Oxford gets £801m, LSE just £41m
Oxford makes £198m more from research grants than from tuition fees – while LSE, despite ranking third for research quality, brings in the least research income of any Russell Group university
Revealed: Glasgow has higher entry standards than Oxford in new 2027 university rankings
Cambridge topped the rankings with a maximum score of 208, while Liverpool recorded the lowest among Russell Group universities at 137, a gap of 71 points
Ranked: All 67 Oxbridge colleges by net assets – from Trinity’s £2.4bn to Clare Hall’s £43m
Trinity College Cambridge holds more than 56 times the net assets of Clare Hall, despite both being colleges at the same university
Oxfordshire student dies of suspected meningitis following new outbreak in Reading
Two others are currently being treated
Russell Brand sells Oxfordshire pub ahead of criminal trial
Brand is scheduled to stand trial at Southwark Crown Court in October 2026 on charges of rape, sexual assault, and indecent assault
Police release CCTV image of person of interest after assault near Westgate Oxford
A man in his late teens was punched multiple times in a late-night assault
University of Oxford to ban use of the term ‘Oxbridge’ due to negative connotations
More than three quarters of Oxford students admitted they were offended by the word
Oxford Uni requested anonymity in a sexual harassment case to protect its ‘reputation’
The case is about a senior professor and a female academic