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The ‘Refugee Penalty’: Researching the Lives of Asylum Migrants to the UK

Mon 01 Apr 2019

How do asylum seekers' outcomes compare to those of the native population and other immigrants? Dr Isabel Ruiz investigates.

‘The untamed self of the unconscious’: Sixth Formers Visit Oxford to Learn About Frankenstein and Dracula

Mon 01 Apr 2019

Sixth-form students from Hemel Hempstead School came to the Bodleian’s Weston Library in Oxford to hear a talk about the two novels from Dr Sandie Byrne

Converging Cities: Why the Gap Between the Haves and Have-nots Is Getting Smaller

Tue 05 Feb 2019

Research shows that over the past 35 years the gap between Europe's rich and poor has been narrowing.

John Ballam’s Forthcoming Novel Blends Fiction, Family History

Mon 04 Feb 2019

In ‘The Mary House’, a new novel by Dr John Ballam, three female narrators tell a family’s five-generation history.

The Student Experience: BBC Radio Oxford

Thu 17 Jan 2019

Students speak to BBC Radio Oxford's David Prever about their experience of Continuing Education

100 Years and Counting: The Continuing Importance of Adult Education

Thu 10 Jan 2019

A new Commission marks the centenary of a landmark 1919 Report on Adult Education, and stresses that lifelong learning is vital to a nation’s welfare and security.

Making History at Continuing Education

Sat 29 Dec 2018

Kate Tiller's initiative in launching the Master’s in English Local History a quarter of a century ago was historic in its own right

Alumna Daisy Johnson Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize 2018

Mon 24 Sep 2018

Her novel 'Everything Under' is one of six under consideration. If she wins, she will be the youngest author ever to do so.

September 26th marks 140 years of Continuing Education at Oxford

Tue 11 Sep 2018

The Department pioneered adult education for women and the working classes

Students Take Part in Prestigious Post-War Project

Fri 06 Jul 2018

Four students awarded residencies on the 2017-18 Mellon-Sawyer Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction and Reconciliation series

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