LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Internet games can boost children's interest in mathematics, says a footballing Oxford University professor who plays wearing the prime number 17 and uses dance to prove ...

We all studied mathematics: it has been a core part of the school curriculum from the very first. However, it is not just a subject for the classroom – maths has a huge range of applications across ...

Five young people from a Birmingham school visited the University of Oxford last week to help encourage a love of maths among female learners. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you ...

Oxford has swapped its notoriously hard entrance exams for generic ones used by other universities, to 'streamline' the process for candidates. Have a go at our questions from the new tests to see if ...

Students, male and female, taking their exams in summer 2017 were given 15 minutes extra after dons ruled "female candidates might be more likely to be adversely affected by time pressure”, according ...

Oxford University has extended time for maths and computer science exams in a bid to help women get better grades. Undergraduates were given 105 minutes to complete their papers, rather 90. There was ...