Browse news and stories about Linacre College – a graduate college of the University of Oxford with a wholly interdisciplinary and international student body. Founded in 1962 and named after Thomas Linacre (c.1460-1524), a distinguished humanist, medical scientist and classicist, the college has more than 550 graduate students and 50 Fellows – the majority of whom are from outside the UK and represent 100+ different countries.
The donation from Sovico Group – a Vietnamese company – is under investigation after concerns were raised in the House of Commons over the College’s memorandum of understanding with the company.
The college, named after 15th-century scholar Thomas Linacre, will be renamed Thao college in honour of its benefactor and Vietnam’s richest woman Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao.