August 2019
Valerie Amos to take up new role at Oxford
Our Director, Baroness Valerie Amos, will be stepping down at the end of the next academic year, after five years in the post. University College Oxford will be publicly announcing her appointment, starting in August 2020, as the new Master of the College.
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October 2019
2019 SOAS World alumni magazine now available
The 2019 SOAS World alumni magazine is now available online! Full of SOAS and alumni news, interviews and features
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7 December 2019
SOAS rises in World University Ranking
SOAS University of London has been ranked in UK’s top twenty universities for Arts and Humanities, according to the 2020 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking. The rankings place SOAS 13th in the UK and 57th in the world, rising 4 places from 61st in 2019.
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28 October 2019
SOAS alumnus Maro Itoje named Player of the Match
SOAS politics graduate Maro Itoje was named Player of the Match in England’s Rugby World Cup semi-final victory on Saturday against the All Blacks. We are immensely proud to have Maro as an alumnus and as someone who speaks out about issues in modern society and cites his studies at SOAS as a formative part of his outlook on life.
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