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Video feature: Can learning to code change young women's lives?
Youth worker Mel Jewell, and researchers Dr Niall Winters and Dr Anne Geniets from the University of Oxford's Department of Education, talk about how the Go Girl project introduced a group of young women from non-traditional educational backgrounds into website and app design, computer game design and coding.
Oxford and the media
Laws, sausages and newspaper articles...
...three things that some feel the public should never see being manufactured. However, we believe there is wide interest in journalism, public relations and the interaction between the two. This occasional series offers a behind-the-scenes view of how Oxford's News and Information Office works with the media to secure high-profile, accurate coverage of the University and also how things can (sometimes) go wrong. Continue reading here...
In our latest Medium article, we reflect on the media's appetite for stories about Oxford undergraduate admissions: Inside the Oxford interview.
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Science Minister sees development of Oxford's Centre for Advanced Research during China visit
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10,000th patient for pioneering cardiac genetic testing service
Tackling obesity in Oxfordshire: soups, smartphones and supermarket shopping
Gaps in data place thousands of illegally traded wild animals at risk, say researchers
Research looks at the physical facts behind fiction's fascination
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Trial offers hope of a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy
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