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Oxford fell from third to fourth place, while Cambridge fell from fifth to sixth in the global rankings for 2026.

Director in the West End and regional theatre for five decades who often worked with the playwright Alan Ayckbourn

Wales midfielder tells Ben Fisher he feels ready to return from a knee injury and is looking for a club

Other lives: Anglican priest and administrator who returned to minister in South Africa after being forced to leave under the apartheid regime

Welcome to Oxford University in the era of identity politics, where students discuss “lived experience”, acknowledge their “moral complicity” and pontificate about ways to enact “systemic change”. The spearheads of these discussions have names like Annunziata Rees-Mogg and went to boarding school, except they’re not Tories, they’re liberals with right-on…

The Michigan Supreme Court had dismissed appeals by families of students killed or wounded at Oxford High School in 2021

Dyer conjures conker fights, saturday jobs and teenage rampages as he charts his journey from a two-up two-down in Gloucestershire to Oxford

Zip closure pillows, envelope back, or lace embroidered — no pillow is safe in this round-up of the most hotly-debated pillowcase styles

July marks the 30th anniversary of Northern Lights, the first in Sir Phililp Pullman’s His Dark Materials novels. Ash Bhardwaj visits Oxford to uncover the locations that gave rise to the stories of Lyra Silvertongue