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A round up for Friday afternoons about the lighter side of universities, to send you into the weekend with a smile.
University of Oxford press relations
We’ve always thought that the job of PR adviser at the University of Oxford must be a thankless task. What with all those senior academics committing murders, having affairs and stabbing one another in the back to be bursar of Ladysmith College, as the viewers of the 1980s reality-TV show Inspector Morse will testify. The past few days must have been particularly difficult.