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In 1865, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson made history as the first women to qualify as a physician and surgeon. Since then, considerable gender equality advancements have been made for workers of the NHS. In 1874, the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors was founded. Just two years later, a law was passed […]
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We all chose to come to Oxford, but the real question is, why? SPCE Labs have released data from a study which aims to demonstrate which factors are the most important in a student’s choice of university. SPCE Labs used a scale out of ten to rank different factors according to the influence they had […]
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Ever feel like everyone at Oxford is from London? Or at least say they’re from London so as not to confuse clueless northerners with alien territories such as ‘High Wycombe’, ‘Crawley’, or the most fabled of them all – ‘Guildford’. Well, truth is, that’s because they kind of are. Taking the almost unanimously stretched definition of ‘London’ as meaning all of Greater London and the Southeast, […]
Continue ReadingBy 2018 the ‘English Baccalaureate’ – a pastiche certificate including English, Maths, History/Geography and a language – is intended to replace GCSEs as England’s standard 16-plus measure of academic attainment. Michael Gove announced the move in order to counter the “grade inflation and dumbing down” engendered by GCSEs. Gove’s exam would not only be harder, […]
Continue ReadingA world without crime, a world where the bad guys are always caught, a world where the good guys are one step ahead – sounds like the makings of a cheesy Friday night, canned-beer-and-food-out-of-a box kind of film. But, jokes aside, a program known as CRUSH aims to predict crimes before they happen. Law enforcement […]
Continue ReadingOxford acceptance rates of black students are up from 8.8 to 14 percent. More needs to be done at an earlier level say student representatives.
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