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This new research reveals for-profit children’s homes, on average, receive worse Ofsted ratings than Local Authority homes in all inspection domains. Credit: Shutterstock

Outsourced children’s care homes provide poorer quality care – Oxford study

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Said Business School Dean Soumitra Dutta

New Saïd Dean Soumitra Dutta highlights international innovation

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Oxford skyline from South Park

Vice-Chancellor's Oration 2022

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During its hold on the World Heritage Site of Palmyra, for instance, Daesh routinely used the ancient architecture publicly to execute prisoners and otherwise terrorise locals. With time being a dimension of power, the site was mobilised to intimidate and

Cultural Heritage on the Frontline: the destruction of peoples and identities in war

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new research from Oxford shows a person’s own rating of their feelings – even on such seemingly arbitrary scales – is of greater predictive power, in terms of action, than a collection of socioeconomic measures

Feelings 'ratings' are highly predictive of future behaviour - research

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Lung cancer

Oxford spinout Optellum secures $14m funding to advance pioneering AI-powered lung cancer diagnosis technology

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Image depicts an X-ray of a hip fracture

New study shows higher rate of fractures in people with intellectual disability

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Professor Kia Nobre receives the Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 2022. Photo credit: Frank van Beek

Professor Kia Nobre awarded prestigious Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science 2022

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A new method developed by Oxford researchers enables nanowires to be placed precisely onto chip devices

Discovery of new nanowire assembly process could enable more powerful computer chips

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Science
Technology
Visitors at IF Oxford's Explorazone during a previous Festival

Oxford University research on show at the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival 2022

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