Education & Training
Discover news and stories from across Oxford and Oxfordshire’s diverse education and skills landscape — from world-renowned institutions and leading state and independent schools to forward-thinking professional training providers and specialist skills academies
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Carrdus School to close in 2025 due to financial pressures
The impending closure has been attributed to increasing financial pressures, including the mid-academic year introduction of VAT on independent school fees, the loss of charitable business rates relief, and rising employers’ national insurance contributions.
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Oxford University and Ellison Institute of Technology enter a long-term strategic alliance
The alliance aims to develop the solutions and future leaders needed to tackle some of the greatest and most enduring challenges facing humanity with an investment of at least £130m from EIT
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Lord Hague of Richmond elected as new Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Lord Hague will be formally inaugurated as Chancellor early in the New Year and serve for a term of 10 years. He becomes the 160th recorded Chancellor in the university’s history, a role that dates back at least 800 years.
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Community effort brings new library to life at Carterton Primary School
Students, staff, and special guests gathered for a ceremony at the school in Carterton, including Jo Cotterill, the celebrated children’s author and Patron of Reading for the school, who cut the ribbon and declared the library “open for business.”
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Oxford Brookes University completes £1m refurbishment project at its Headington Campus
Work has been completed to increase the number of teaching spaces available to staff and students and improve existing buildings as part of wider refurbishment works at Oxford Brookes University’s Headington Campus.
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JEMS Outreach Programme inspires young minds at Oxford High School GDST
Oxford High School GSDT welcomed sixty enthusiastic Year 5 pupils from St. Francis Primary School and St. John Fisher Primary School as part of its Junior Engineering, Maths and Science (JEMS) outreach programme devised and led by science teacher Maria Whittington.
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A-levels 2024: Our Lady’s Abingdon students achieve more than double A* grades over last year’s results
The percentage of A* grades increased from 7% to 16%, higher than pre-Covid results. A fantastic 88% of EPQ (Extended Project Qualification) students achieved A* – A, and two-thirds of all students achieved a top grade (A*, A, B) in at least one of their subjects.
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A-levels 2024: Oxford High School GDST crowns off a terrific year with outstanding results
Oxford High School GDST has crowned off a terrific year with outstanding A-level exam results. The school was named the Independent Girls’ School of the Year last September, and it held its first-ever TEDx talk in March.
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Rhodes Trust announces new global art residency programme in Oxford
The Rhodes Trust has launched its inaugural Rhodes Art for Global Impact Residency, which aims to harness the power of art to address pressing global issues and promote social justice.
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Oxford Brookes University develops ‘grief and loss’ resources for school children for OxTrail
Oxford Brookes University has teamed up with Sobell House Hospice to develop educational and creative resources for school children to support difficult classroom discussions around grief and loss as part of this Summer’s OxTrail.
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The Oxford Trust launches Accessing Science Fund to support young people into STEM
The Oxford Trust has launched the Accessing Science Fund to improve science learning for children and young people who are less likely to have access to STEM activities and resources in schools and community groups across Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
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St Catherine’s College gets a new temporary lecture theatre complex in just six weeks
St Catherine’s Colleges has installed a high-quality temporary solution to accommodate up to 250 people in just six weeks, while remediation work is carried out on its main lecture theatre due to the presence of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC).
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Cokethorpe School welcomes 100 guests for its inaugural business community event
The Cokethorpe Business Breakfast on Friday, 10 May, saw 100 representatives of local businesses welcomed to the school its first business community event, launching the Cokethorpe Business Directory.
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Oxford Royale receives the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade
Oxford Royale has received the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade, joining a distinguished group of 252 organisations nationally recognised for their excellence.
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Oxford High Prep School has been shortlisted for the Tes Awards 2024
Oxford High Prep School has been shortlisted in the Independent Prep School of the Year category of the Tes Schools Awards 2024
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Cothill School announces plans to become co-educational
Cothill School, an independent day and boarding prep school in Oxfordshire, for pupils aged 7 to 13, will become co-educational from September 2025, enabling more families to benefit from the school’s excellent academic offering boys have enjoyed for over 150 years.