1. General information about the collegiate University to cut and paste into your own presentations Name Job title/department/name of research project Date

2. Introduction to the University  There are more than 22,000 students at Oxford, including 11,832 undergraduates and 9,857 postgraduates.  The University, including the colleges and Oxford University Press, supports more than 16,500 jobs and contributes £750 million annually to the regional economy.  94 per cent of Oxford leavers are employed or in further study six months after graduating.  Every year there are more than 15,000 enrolments for courses offered by the Department for Continuing Education, making Oxford one of the largest providers of continuing education in the UK.

3. Oxford research  Oxford's research activity involves more than 70 departments, the colleges, more than 1,600 academic staff, more than 4,100 research and research support staff, and more than 5,500 graduate research students.  Oxford has more world-leading academics (rated 4* in the 2008 national Research Assessment Exercise) than any other UK university.  Oxford also has the highest number of world-leading or internationally excellent (4* or 3*) academics in the UK.  At graduate level, 56 per cent of students are studying for a higher degree by research.

4. Research vision and strategy  Oxford strives to lead the international research agenda across our disciplinary spectrum and through interdisciplinary work.  We are committed to supporting research in strategically important and vulnerable subjects.  The range of our core academic disciplines provides an ideal foundation for the development of interdisciplinary research.  We aim to maximise the benefits of research by advancing fundamental knowledge and contributing to better public policy, improved health outcomes, economic prosperity, social cohesion, international development, community identity, the arts, culture and the quality of life.

5. Research income  The University’s largest source of income is external research grants and contracts.  Oxford consistently has the highest research income from external sponsors of any UK university.  Total research income for 2011/12 totalled £538 million. Of this sum, £129 million was received in HEFCE research funding, and £409 million was received from externally funded grants and contracts.  Oxford's largest and most important competitive research funders over the past ten years have been the Wellcome Trust, the UK Research Councils and the European Commission.

6. Innovation and enterprise  Oxford, through Isis Innovation Limited, our wholly owned technology transfer company, pioneered the successful commercial exploitation of academic research and invention.  Isis is 25 years old in 2013. http://www.isis-innovation.com/http://www.isis-innovation.com/  Isis has created more than 100 companies. It files, on average, more than one patent application each week, and manages over 470 patent application families and 700 licence agreements.  Oxfordshire is one of Europe’s leading centres of enterprise, innovation and knowledge. The county’s growth rate in high- tech employment remains one of the highest in the UK and many of its 1,500 high-tech companies have links to Oxford University.

7. Undergraduate admissions  Oxford receives, on average, more than five applications for each available place. We conduct more than 24,000 interviews with more than 11,000 applicants each December.  98 per cent of those taking A-levels who enter the University achieve grades of AAA or better.  The majority of Oxford’s UK undergraduates come from state schools.  We have the most generous no-strings attached financial support for UK and EU students from the lowest income households.  Oxford centrally spends more than £8 million on bursaries per year, in addition to those offered by the colleges.

8. Widening access to the University  Oxford spends more than £3 million each year on outreach activities, in addition to the more than £8 million on bursaries.  Oxford holds more than 2,200 outreach activities annually with groups from primary age upwards, including summer schools, school visits, student shadowing schemes, e-mentoring, aspiration days and events for teachers.  By 2014 ‘UNIQ Summer Schools’ will be the largest free university summer school in the UK, with 1,000 places available. 197of the 2012 UNIQ cohort went on to win an Oxford place, meaning that more than one quarter (26.3 per cent) of attendees went on to study here. Of those UNIQ students who made applications, more than 40 per cent ended up with places – against an overall success rate for Oxford applicants of around 20 per cent.

9. Graduate students  44 per cent of students at Oxford are graduate students. 61 per cent of them come from outside the UK.  Oxford offers more than 320 graduate degree programmes, and has more than 9,800 graduate students from more than 140 countries and territories.  The University received 19,969 applications for graduate study for entry in 2012-13. 75 per cent of applications were from candidates with a country of citizenship outside the UK.  More than 1,000 fully-funded scholarships are available for new master’s and doctoral students starting in 2014/15 from the University, our colleges and other supporters.

10. International  More than one third of our student body – more than 8,400 students - are citizens of other countries, including 17 per cent of undergraduates and 61 per cent of graduate students.  Students come to Oxford from more than 140 countries and territories.  The largest groups come from the USA (1,516), China and Hong Kong (865), Germany (806), Canada (401), India (336), Australia (312), Italy (264), Ireland (232), Singapore (229) and France (219).  Oxford has more than a dozen centres and institutes specialising in the study of specific countries and regions.

11. International staff  41 per cent of our academic staff are citizens of foreign countries.  Our academic staff come from 100 different countries and territories.  The largest groups of international academic staff are from the USA, Germany, Italy, China (excluding Hong Kong), Australia, France, Ireland, India and Canada.

12. Oxford University Press  Oxford University Press, publisher of the famous dictionaries and a department of the University, is the world’s largest university press.  It has offices in more than 50 countries, and almost 6,000 employees worldwide.  In China alone, 14 million school children use Oxford books every year, and internationally around 16 million children use Oxford ELT materials to learn English.  For more information visit www.oup.comwww.oup.com

13. Oxford’s work overseas  Oxford has more than a dozen centres and institutes specialising in the study of specific countries and regions.  Oxford’s Centre for Tropical Medicine conducts cutting edge research at its laboratories in Kenya, Vietnam and Thailand.  Oxford is the leading centre for the study of China in Europe; has one of the top five depts in the world in Japanese Studies.  Oxford is one of the leading centres for the study of globalisation: Oxford Martin School, Blavatnik School of Government, Programme on Global Economic Governance, and the Oxford Department of International Development.  Isis Innovation provides technology transfer partnerships and innovation management consulting to universities, governments and industry worldwide.

14. History of the University  Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world.  Teaching existed in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.  In the 13th century, rioting between town and gown (townspeople and students) hastened the establishment of primitive halls of residence. These were succeeded by the first of Oxford's colleges.  The oldest are University, Balliol and Merton colleges, which were established between 1249 and 1264

15. History of the University  John Wycliffe, a 14th-century Master of Balliol, campaigned for a bible in the vernacular, against the wishes of the papacy.  During the Reformation in the 16th century, the Anglican churchmen Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley were tried for heresy and burnt at the stake in Oxford.  The University was Royalist in the Civil War, and Charles I held a counter-Parliament in Convocation House.  In the 18th century Edmund Halley, Professor of Geometry, predicted the return of the comet that bears his name; and John and Charles Wesley's prayer meetings laid the foundations of the Methodist Society.

16. History of the University  1833 onwards The Oxford Movement sought to revitalise the Catholic aspects of the Anglican Church. One of its leaders, John Henry Newman, became a Roman Catholic in 1845 and was later made a Cardinal.  In 1860 the new University Museum was the scene of a famous debate between Thomas Huxley, champion of evolution, and Bishop Wilberforce.  From 1878, academic halls were established for women and they were admitted to full membership of the University in 1920. Five all-male colleges first admitted women in 1974 and, since then, all colleges have changed their statutes to admit both women and men.

20. University on iTunes U More than 4,000 free podcasts Recorded by people from across the University, colleges, museums and libraries 20 million downloads since launch in 2008 We are never absent from the global top 10 http://itunes.ox.ac.uk

22. University on YouTube Videos produced by the University and its departments, faculties and colleges More than one million channel views www.youtube.com/oxford

24. University Facebook page To publicise news and draw people towards the University website and those of its departments, faculties and colleges Global following of potential applicants, alumni and people with a general interest in Oxford and its work 1.294 million followers https://www.facebook.com/the.university.of.oxford

26. University Twitter account To publicise news and draw people towards the University website and those of its departments, faculties and colleges More than 114,000 followers https://twitter.com/#!/UniofOxford

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