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New College School traces its origins to November 1379 when it was founded by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, as part of the foundation of the College of St Mary of Winchester in Oxford, more commonly known as New College. Wykeham himself paid for the choirboys, chaplains and clerks to sing for services at chapel.
As well as being one of the first Oxford colleges to take undergraduates and to appoint tutors to teach them, [8] [17] New College was the first in Oxford to be deliberately designed around a main quadrangle. [17] The college was about as large as all of the (six) existing Oxford colleges combined. [18] [19]
This is a list of notable people affiliated with New College, Oxford, including former students, and current and former academics and fellows. The college is a part of Oxford University, England. The disproportionate amount of men on this list is partially explained by the fact that for the first 600 years of its history, from its foundation in ...
The Oxford University Student Union, formerly better known by its acronym OUSU and now rebranded as Oxford SU, [224] exists to represent students in the university's decision-making, to act as the voice for students in the national higher education policy debate, and to provide direct services to the student body. Reflecting the collegiate ...
Several student groups participated in protests against the introduction of tuition fees from 1998 onwards, with Oxford students playing a major role in the nationwide Campaign for Free Education. Activities included non-payment campaigns, the occupation of Exam Schools in 1998 and of the Development Office in November 1999, [ 32 ] several ...
Oxford Student Publications Limited (OSPL) is an independent student publishing house in Oxford that publishes the Cherwell student newspaper, The Isis student magazine, The Oxford Scientist, formerly Bang Science Magazine, PHASER, Keep Off the Grass freshers' magazine and Industry fashion magazine.
Newcomer education is a need with international implications. The Refugee Convention of the UNHCR in 1951 listed public education as one of the fundamental rights of refugees, stating that “elementary education satisfies an urgent need [and] schools are the most rapid and effective instrument of assimilation.”
The rankings of each college in the Norrington Table were calculated by awarding 5 points for a student who receives a First Class degree, 3 points for a 2:1, 2 for a 2:2 and 1 for a Third; the total was then divided by the maximum possible score (i.e. the number of finalists in that college multiplied by 5), and the result for each college is expressed as a percentage, rounded to 2 decimal ...