A touch of the carnivalesque
It was time for the fortnight’s excitement, hard work, learning and adventures to come to an end yesterday, as students graduated from Oxford Royale Academy and readied themselves for departure…
It was time for the fortnight’s excitement, hard work, learning and adventures to come to an end yesterday, as students graduated from Oxford Royale Academy and readied themselves for departure…
Students were off to see the wizard yesterday, travelling the tarmac road to London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre for an evening at the Broadway hit musical ‘Wicked’. This tale warmed and wrenched…
Students felt the full force of the law yesterday as they paid a visit to London’s Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales. This court deals with…
“The purpose of debate is to make us open our minds.” Thus spake The Rt Hon the Lord Hague of Richmond, who, as a former party leader and foreign secretary,…
Things got “super-meta”, in the words of one student, as Catz attended a performance of Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ yesterday evening. Far from a traditional take, this performance takes…
Students have now spent a week in St Catherine’s College, and have become accustomed to its towering windows, perfect right-angles, and highly stylish chairs (more on those later). To be…
Students spent all day yesterday in the (spiritual) company of Kings and Queens, on their excursion to Windsor Castle. The palace, originally built under William the Conqueror in the 11th…
Things got radioactive as students learned about spectroscopy and researched energy-emitting isotopes. Business Finance students studied other kinds of reactions and interactions in their class on the Bretton Woods system,…
In Medical Biology on Thursday, students learned about an exciting new technique being used to treat Type 1 diabetes: it’s called bioplotting, and involves 3D printing the crucial insulin-producing beta…
Students continued to delve deeper into their chosen courses on Wednesday, discussing the dynamics of the Eurozone in Economics, theorising about life beyond Earth in Astronomy, and exploring Oxford’s rich…