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Admissions
Does anyone know if Oxford accepts anything less than a first class honours degree for entry to their graduate programmes? If so, does it have to be a good first or will a first "by-the-skin-of-your-teeth" do?!—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 136.206.1.17 (talk • contribs) 21:20, 22 February 2007 (UTC).
- I'd say it would very much depend on what graduate course you were applying for. There are many people studying in Oxford as postgraduates who received a 2:1 degree. There are certainly also some (relatively few) DPhil/PhD students who received 2:2 degrees, especially in areas where well-funded research programs are nevertheless attracting comparatively few applicants for student places. In some subjects, being admitted as a research student is in practice primarily about finding a willing supervisor; department and college admission will follow as a formality in all but exceptional cases. Of course, being admitted and being able to fund your study are two quite separate issues!
- Academic qualifications will not be the only factor in admission to any course of postgraduate study at Oxford - as with job applications some candidates will be successful because their broader life experiences catch the interest of the people responsible for the admissions process. More mature candidates might find that the class of degree they received many years before would be considered quite unimportant! --Casper Gutman 00:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Council Merge
I would propose that University Council be merged to the section University of Oxford#Governance and administration. This appears to be a simple task, but I don't know enough to avoid contradiction. Specifically, University Council implies that the council was established in 2000, while this article makes it seem like it's been around as early as 1969. Thanks. BFD1 16:30, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- Support merge. It is a no brain-er really. The article title is too general - all UK, Australian, NZ, etc., universities have University Councils. Merge the Oxford stuff and rewrite a general article on University Councils. --Bduke 22:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
I have done the merge as there has been no objection and all the material is already in the main university article. I made University Council a redirect but it could be developed as above into a good article on university councils. --Bduke 02:10, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Founding Date
whoever changed the founding date I submitted is clearly wrong, Oxford was founded in the 1100's and so this is the 12th Century, not the 11th, pjs68@cam.ac.uk —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.111.42.1 (talk • contribs) 23:28, 13 March 2007 (UTC).
Wiki Page Pranks
Unless this is some very obscure reference that I don't understand, I think this is a prank: under the admissions section, the first sentence reads: "Admission to the University of Oxford is based wholly on who you know and the ability of your father to do a funny handshake whilst felating a buxom goat" with a reference at the bottom of the page to Courses and Entrance Requirements. As you would expect, there is nothing related on the referred page. Noticed on 3/18/07 The Crunchy Frog 07:34, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
- Thanks, you may need to refresh your cache - that was reverted quite some hours back.--Alf melmac 07:38, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
Americans and "Oxford"
When Americans say that they went to Oxford is it generally accepted (in the US) that they mean this institution, or could one reasonably expect that they are referring to one of the other educational establishments of the same name which exist in the United States? We in the UK assume they mean the former, but a recent conversation I had with an acquaintance leads me to suspect that this may be incorrect. -- 86.17.211.191 10:09, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- That's how these "other establishments" survive - it's a way for those who couldn't go to the Oxford to pretend that they did. If you ever see anyone wearing a "University of Oxford" tee-shirt, you can guarantee they didn't attend the university. Deb 11:44, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
- To answer your question, yes. 23:34, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
Spelling
I am curious to know whether the spelling used in this article was as a result of the usual procedures, or simply the result of an invisible contention that because this is a "British" establishment, its article must accordingly use British spelling. I care neither way, and I am aware of the policies on this topic. ALTON .ıl 23:44, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
- Any words in particular that catch your Bruin eye? The earliest version of the article I can find is this, (gosh, hasn't it improved!) but that is a conversion from an earlier version now lost, so I can't find out who the original author was. Whilst no words jump out at me in that earliest reachable version as being "British English" over "American English", maybe I'd only spot them if it was written in American English. Perhaps it's been edited overall by more British English editors than American English editors - or, when in doubt, editors have referred, of course, to the OED! Bencherlite 00:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)