A group of students at Oxford University are calling for a ban on scholars’ gowns, ... The distinguished scholars’ gowns, long-sleeved robes worn during exams, ...

A group of students at Oxford University have demanded that long-sleeved robes, worn by high-flying students to exams and graduation as a sign of their success, are banned on the grounds that they ...

OXFORD University students toast the end of their studies – by getting very messy while guzzling champagne. The undergraduates emerged from exam halls covered in shaving foam and silly string… ...

Thereafter, academics and students at many universities wore robes for tradition’s sake. At Oxford, robes were de rigueur until the 1960s and are still required at graduation and during exams.

At Oxford, you have three hours to show what you’ve learned in nine months — a three-hour odyssey from anxiety to elation. ‘D on’t worry, nobody ever really fails the exams,” a friend ...

OXFORD, England The exam was simple yet devilish, consisting of a single noun (“water,” for instance, or “bias”) that applicants had three hours somehow to spin into a coherent essay.