And the winners are
Teaching, innovation, and outreach: the Department's staff, students and projects have been honoured in recent weeks. OUSU Teaching AwardsDr Elizabeth Gemmill, University Lecturer in Local History and...
View ArticlePortrait of a Certificate
Who's applied for our new Certificate of Higher Education? The 'CertHE' launches this autumn and both the quality and number of students we will welcome on the course is high. Of the one hundred and...
View ArticleImproving quality, reducing cost in learning
JISC, the UK's leading authority on information and digital technologies for education and research, has produced a video highlighting the Department's success in harnessing the potential of technology...
View ArticleBooks celebrate Oxford's collegiate and industrial heritage
Tutors Liz Woolley and Hubert Pragnell are this summer's Tutor Spotlight Authors. Their recent books showcase Oxford from radically different viewpoints. Oxford in Watercolours by Art History tutor...
View ArticleJonathan Healey named BBC New Generation Thinker
BBC Television Arts and the Arts and Humanities Research Council have named Dr Jonathan Healey, our new University Lecturer in Local and Social History, one of ten academics to have won the title of...
View ArticleHistory and Philosophy of Evidence-Based Health Care: free lectures and...
Professor Mike Kelly, Director of the Centre for Public Health Excellence, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), will be speaking at two exciting new courses this July....
View ArticleOxford Student News Team Spotlights Department's Work
Department Director Professor Jonathan Michie and student Julie Whyman were interviewed by Cherwell TV, the online video branch of The Cherwell, Oxford University's independent student news. A live...
View ArticleEast Oxford Archaeology shortlisted for prestigious award
'East Oxford, One History or Many?' has been shortlisted for the Best Community Archaeology Project for the 2012 British Archaeological Awards. The full short list was published 30th May on the BAA...
View ArticleAdult Learners' Week 2012
The Department celebrated Adult Learners' Week with a live Q and A event conducted via Twitter.
View ArticleStudent loan information for part-time learners
The Independent Taskforce on Student Finance Information has launched a series of part-time student finance materials to coincide with Adult Learners' Week (12-18 May 2012): Part-time guide in pdf...
View ArticleAlumna wins place on Creative Writing summer school
The first woman graduate of Corpus Christi has won this year's Creative Writing Summer School competition for University alumni. Congratulations to Dina Gold (pictured below with a portrait of Bishop...
View ArticleVirtual open events bring Oxford to you
Our part-time Oxford qualifications programmes attract students from all over the world. They are designed for those whose work or other commitments make full-time education impractical. But not...
View ArticleNew: Marianne Talbot's 'Bioethics: An Introduction'
This new book provides readers with the confidence needed to debate key issues in bioethics. Marianne Talbot, our Director of Studies in Philosophy, is loved by iTunes U audiences around the world for...
View ArticleLooking at Theology through a diverse, unusual lens
Grimm's Fairy Tales? Planet Narnia? Moral Imagination? This year's Theology Summer School will explore the theme of 'Texts and Images' from many viewpoints. 'This summer school takes a highly creative...
View ArticleNew Oxford Pre-Master's Scholarship
To mark the occasion of Vice-Chancellor Prof. Andrew Hamilton's visit to India this month the Department for Continuing Education is delighted to offer one scholarship to students of Indian nationality...
View Article'Maths in the City' Oxford walking tours begin 10 March
Did you know that the roof of the Sheldonian is held up by a piece of mathematics that Christopher Wren learnt while he was studying at Oxford? What is the influence of maths in the architecture of a...
View ArticleCelebrating Open Education Week
This week (5-10 March 2012) is Open Education Week - a global event which seeks to raise awareness worldwide about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational...
View ArticleVote for Current Archaeology's Research Project 2012
The uncovering of a massive Norse longhouse at Skara Brae in Orkney is the subject of a research project published in 'Current Archaeology' magazine by Dr David Griffiths, Director of Studies in...
View ArticleNew student-centric website enhancements rolled out
As a direct result of student input, we've added two new features to our website: the ability for students to create their own personal online accounts; and a new online 'shopping basket'...
View ArticleBBC4: 'Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings'
Dr Janina Ramirez's BBC4 documentary 'Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings' will air on 9 January 2012 at 21.00. Based on the British Library's Royal Collection exhibition, 'Royal...
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