How do birds navigate over long distances? This complex question has been the subject of debate and controversy among scientists for decades, with Earth's magnetic field and the bird's own sense of smell among the factors said to play a part. Now, researchers from the universities of Oxford, Barcelona and Pisa have shown in a new experiment that olfaction – or sense of smell – is almost certainly
NB. When we last checked (2009), none of the following had been updated to use the BNC XML Edition. The counts they provide all relate to the earlier BNC World Edition. Adam Kilgarriff produced word frequency list for the BNC World Edition, available from his webpage (see http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html. Frequency lists for BNC World are also published in the book Word Frequencies in W
Humanities Graduates and the British Economy: The Hidden Impact Higher education is historically rooted in a model of learning based in the Humanities in which literate, critical, and communication skills are a recognised public good. These skills and the public values they serve — such as the capacity for making informed choices, for evaluating evidence and argument, for creative thought and prob
This working paper takes a look at austerity and tries to explain why it happened. Was austerity an unfortunate accident, or is there a more general political economy explanation for why it occurred? Answering this question is vital to avoid the next global recession being followed by yet more austerity, says author Simon Wren-Lewis. Austerity is a fiscal contraction that causes a significant incr
Humanities Graduates and the British Economy: The Hidden Impact The University of Oxford publishes the first research report of its kind evaluating the impact of Humanities graduates on the economy and society by examining long-term career paths.�More information and the full report. For news relating to the report, see�http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2013/131107.html. TORCH | The Oxford Re
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Home » News & Comment » New project to develop and enhance the OpenCitations Corpus announced The OpenCitations Enhancement Project, a new project to develop and enhance the OpenCitations Corpus, has been announced, with support from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for 18 months from May 2017. The Foundation funds research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics
What to expectThere are lots of myths about interviews at Oxford, but really they're just conversations about your chosen subject - like a short tutorial - with someone who knows a lot about it. Why does Oxford interview?A good deal of the teaching at Oxford takes place in small classes or tutorials, and your interviewers – who may be your future tutors – are assessing your ability to study, think
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