MCS in the Press
As top of the Financial Times's league table for 2010-11, Magdalen College School appears regularly in the press. Below are lists of articles (by academic year) in which the school and its staff and pupils are mentioned.
2011-2012
| Newspaper/Magazine | Title | Date |
| The Oxford Times | From sweet choir to hardcore rock | 22/03/2012 |
| The Oxford Mail | From sweet choir to hardcore rock | 20/3/2012 |
| Student Newspaper | Universities to recruit more from state schools | 13/03/2012 |
| The Oxford Mail | Young jazz bands hit all the right notes | 08/03/2012 |
| The Oxford Times | Making the grade | 08/03/2012 |
| The Daily Telegraph | University targets 'discriminate against private schools' (Graeme Paton) | 02/03/2012 |
| The Schools Advertiser | School Focus: Magdalen College School | March 2012 |
| A+ Education Magazine | Education News: Weekends: They're always a drama | March 2012 |
| A+ Education Magazine | Education News: Archbishop of Canterbury Visits | March 2012 |
| A+ Education Magazine | Education News: Sixth Form Historian Published | March 2012 |
| A+ Education Magazine | Education News: Why History Matters | March 2012 |
| A+ Education Magazine | Sporting Achievements: Magdalen in Regional Karting Finals | March 2012 |
| A+ Education Magazine | Sporting Achievements: Cricket Legend to join Magdalen College | March 2012 |
| A+ Education Magazine | Bright Young Things: Outstanding Oboe Performance | March 2012 |
| A+ Education Magazine | Bright Young Things: Coming up Trumps | March 2012 |
| Mail online | 'Social engineering' checks at two in three universities in bid to boost number of working class students (Laura Clark and Jason Groves) | 22/02/2012 |
| The Oxford Times | County Schools performing well | 02/02/2012 |
| The Telegraph | Archbishop jokes about messy hair with schoolboy namesake | 13/01/2012 |
| Attain Magazine | Going Beyond the Exams (spring feature) | 09/01/2012 |
| Cherwell.org | Universities widen entrance criteria | 21/12/2011 |
| The Telegraph | University background checks to cut number of middle-class students (Graeme Paton) | 17/12/2011 |
| Oxford Mail | School Sport: Cokethorpe in fab four-timer | 17/12/2011 |
| The Sunday Times | Stricter curbs on exam help could harm gifted dyslexics’ chances (Jack Grimston) | 20/11/2011 |
| The Sunday Times | Universities impose new tests (Jack Grimston) | 20/11/2011 |
| The Telegraph | Universities crack down on A-level resits | 15/11/2011 |
| The Sunday Times | Parent Power: Your guide to the top schools in Britain | 13/11/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Tongan star Vaikona's in team for showpiece | 10/11/2011 |
| Catholic Herald | Boys reflect on Pope's message to young people | 04/11/2011 |
| Telegraph (online) | Top universities raising A-level entry requirements (Graeme Paton) | 24/10/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | All the World's a Stage | 13/10/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Duncan Smith MBE (obituary) | 13/10/2011 |
| Oxford Mail | Exam debate will rear its head again | 06/10/2011 |
| Oxford Mail | GCSEs are not an easier exam | 06/10/2011 |
| Oxford Mail | Q: Are exams getting easier? | 06/10/2011 |
| Oxford Mail | Teacher was given MBE | 06/10/2011 |
| Tatler’s School Guide 2012 | Magdalen College School | Autumn 2011 |
| A+ Education Magazine | School listing | Autumn 2011 |
| PS Magazine | Welcome to this sporting life (Matt Bull) | Autumn 2011 |
| The Independent Schools Magazine | University Admissions | October 2011 |
| The Daily Mail | Middle class ‘to be hit by university targets’ (Sarah Harris) | 29/09/2011 |
| The Independent | Exam board to penalise private school pupils (Richard Garner) | 27/09/2011 |
| The Times | Favour poorer pupils, urges exam board (Greg Hurst) | 27/09/2011 |
| Mail (online) | Plan to give poor pupils extra credit to discriminate against private school classes | 27/09/2011 |
| Oxford Mail | Magdalen College School pupils join in for scrabble and tea | 23/09/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | A-level league tables 2011 | 17/09/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | GCSE league tables 2011 | 17/09/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Independent Schools: Sixth Form Exams | 17/09/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Which exams will they sit? | 17/09/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | That magic touch | 15/09/2011 |
| Financial Times | Ranking reflects unsettling times in education (Chris Cook) & Top Independent Schools A-level results 2011 (league table) | 10/09/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Schools call for marking inquiry after English GCSE grades slump (Graeme Paton) | 10/09/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | GCSE Results | 08/09/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Magdalen head defends GCSE system and says ‘stop meddling’ (Tim Hobden) | 08/09/2011 |
| The Times | Universities urged to relax rules for students from poor families (Greg Hurst) | 08/09/2011 |
| Mail (online) | Being talented in one subject is not enough to win a place at university, says head of school on top of independent results | 03/09/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Do your homework. Affordable properties near good schools are hard to find, so mug up with Max Davidson’s guide to house-hunting in the top 20 educational hot spots | 03/09/2011 |
| The Times | GCSE results, boys (league table) | 03/09/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Private pupils’ GCSE success (Graeme Paton) | 03/09/2011 |
| The Times | Stop GCSE meddling, says table-topping headmaster (Greg Hurst) | 03/09/2011 |
| Telegraph (online) | Third of GCSEs taken at private schools graded A* (Graeme Paton) | 03/09/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | County’s high achievers make the grade (Liam Sloan) & GCSE results league table | 01/09/2011 |
| The Oxford Mail | Magdalen’s results shine brightest of independents | 01/09/2011 |
| Oxfordshire Limited Edition | Snapshots from the seaside (re OW James Lomax) | September 2011 |
| The Times | Competitive spirit' makes boys chase all-star score | 28/08/2011 |
| School House Magazine | Here come the girls | Spring/summer 2011 |
| School House | Magdalen College's Noble Enlightenment (re The Critic) | Autumn/winter 2011 |
| School House | School listing | Autumn/winter 2011 |
| School House Magazine | The art of being brilliant | Autumn/winter 2011 |
2010-2011
| Newspaper/Magazine | Title | Date |
| The Oxford Times | Davidmann's on target to claim gold | Summer 2011 |
| Primary Times | From first to last - Magdalen waves farewell to its first J1s | Summer 2011 |
| Primary Times | New Head for Magdalen College Junior School | Summer 2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Review (Giles Woodforde): Daniel Hyde, Magdalen College Chapel | Summer 2011 |
| Conference and Common Room | Heat, dust and ashes (Nick Hewlett) | Autumn 2010 |
| PS Magazine | Where ancient meets modern among the dreaming spires | Autumn 2010 |
| Primary Times | Now is the month of Maying | May 2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Students make time for tea | 29/08/2011 |
| Sunday Times (online) | Examiner errors hit university candidates with £6,000 extra fees (Jack Grimston) | 28/08/2011 |
| The Times | A-level results: private schools challenge for the stars (articles includes league table) (Joanna Sugden) | 27/08/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Independent Schools A-level results (league table) | 27/08/2011 |
| Times (online) | Political pressure stunts pupils' ambition to win A*, says private head (Joanna Sugden) | 27/08/2011 |
| The Times | GCSE results (league table) | 26/08/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Howzat | 25/08/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Pupils' star performance | 25/08/2011 |
| Abingdon Herald | Pupils make the grade at A-level | 24/08/2011 |
| Witney Gazette | A levels: hard work pays off in some style | 19/08/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | A-star 'challenge' helps boys catch up with girls (Graeme Paton) | 19/08/2011 |
| Telegraph (online) | A-level results: boys close gap on girls | 18/08/2011 |
| The Telegraph | A-level results: Olympic hopeful reveals A-level grades | 18/08/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Leading Universities bar students who resit A-levels from top courses (Graeme Paton) | 16/08/2011 |
| Telegraph (online) | Universities crack down on A-level resits (Graeme Paton) | 15/08/2011 |
| The Guardian | Umbrellas at dawn? Fee-paying schools bid farewell to a second chief in three years, after a row among elite headteachers (Liz Lightfoot) | 26/07/2011 |
| Oxford Mail | Schools' top university admissions revealed | 13/07/2011 |
| Telegraph (online) | Universities 'must recruit poor students' to justify £9k fees (Graeme Paton) | 12/07/2011 |
| The Telegraph | Oxbridge places 'dominated by just five elite schools' | 08/07/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | It's time to outlaw this unfair bonding (Christopher Gray) | 30/06/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Celebrating famous old boy Ivor Novello (Giles Woodforde) | 23/06/2011 |
| The Times | Oxbridge urged to scrap interviews and make entrance process fairer (Greg Hurst) | 23/06/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Oxford Sixth: University church | 16/06/2011 |
| The Sunday Times | Private rival to Oxbridge prices excellence at £18,000 (AC Grayling tells Jack Grimston) | 05/06/2011 |
| The Oxford Mail | Daffy's out to make his mark. Former England Test star takes role at Magdalen (Ed Mezzetti) | 21/05/2011 |
| Telegraph (online) | Middle-class student exam stress 'creating mental health timebomb' (Andrew Hough) | 21/05/2011 |
| Guardian (online) | Stressed A-level students seek medical help in record numbers (Jessica Shepherd) | 20/05/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Daffy's back in Oxford to coach youngsters | 19/05/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | From madrigals to movies | 05/05/2011 |
| The Sunday Times | Bid for more poor undergraduates 'penalises middle class' (Jack Grimston) | 17/04/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Stars of the future show their mettle (Christopher Gray) | 07/04/2011 |
| Telegraph (online) | Private school students looking to foreign universities (Graeme Paton) | 05/04/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | MCS performers head back in time at Blenheim (re The Critic) | 31/03/2011 |
| The Sunday Times | Oxford may cut 'private entrants' (Jack Grimston) | 13/03/2011 |
| The Daily Telegraph | A-level League Tables, Independent Schools | 12/03/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Time-travelling at Blenheim (re The Critic) | 10/03/2011 |
| Financial Times | Top 1,000 Schools | 26/02/2011 |
| The Sunday Times | Oxbridge snubs Clegg on grades (Jack Grimston) | 13/02/2011 |
| Daily Mail | Let poor students in or we'll cap your fees | 10/02/2011 |
| Telegraph (online) | University elite forced to take fixed quotas of state pupils (Tim Ross) | 10/02/2011 |
| The Times | Colleges told: lower the bar for poorer students (Greg Hurst and Anuska Asthana) | 08/02/2011 |
| Telegraph (online) | Bright pupils suffer at state schools, says Oxford admissions head (Andy Bloxham) | 31/01/2011 |
| The Sunday Times | Top state pupils more likely to get first at university (Jack Grimston) | 30/01/2011 |
| City A.M. | Moving in on Britain's top private schools | 21/01/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | Record number of school's pupils get Oxbridge offers | 20/01/2011 |
| The Times | A-level revolution hits school year (Joanna Sugden) | 15/01/2011 |
| The Times | Fine idea, but impractical for now (Dr Tim Hands) | 15/01/2011 |
| The Oxford Student | Fewer British applying to Oxford | 14/01/2011 |
| The Oxford Times | County schools now in top third | 13/01/2011 |
| The Sunday Times | Students go north for a cheaper life (Jack Grimston and Tom Rowley) | 09/01/2011 |
| Guardian (online) | Universities must cut private schools intake, says Simon Hughes | 07/01/2011 |
| Cotswold Life | School listing | Autumn 2010 |
| The Sunday Times | College demands student gets five A grades at A-level (Jack Grimston) | 19/12/2010 |
| Classical Music Magazine | Dusting down the tradition (re College choir) | 20/11/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | Magdalen is second best independent school in UK | 18/11/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | Meet Shakespeare's sisters (Giles Woodforde on Measure for Measure) | 11/11/2010 |
| The Telegraph | Pupils from elite schools secure one in ten Oxford places | 28/10/2010 |
| The Times | Brain drain: US universities win hearts and minds (Nicola Woolcock) | 23/10/2010 |
| The Sunday Times | Students go Dutch to avoid squeeze (Jack Grimston and Jessica Winch) | 23/10/2010 |
| The Oxford Student | The lucky 13: One in ten Oxford students from just 13 elite schools (Becky Ratcliffe and Tom Rowley) | 21/10/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | Award for building that stops pupils from dozing off | 14/10/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | Cycling, cemeteries and constables (re CSO) | 14/10/2010 |
| The Independent (online) | A-level reforms: the Government's new diplomas are proving unpopular with schools | 10/10/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | Marfan come and sing (College choir initiative) | 07/10/2010 |
| Oxford Mail | School wins prize for new building | 28/09/2010 |
| Financial Times | Independent Schools (league table) | 11/09/2010 |
| Evening Standard | 'Regarding your report of August 27 - accuracy of the exam boards nationally' ... (Dr Tim Hands) | 06/09/2010 |
| Oxford Mail | Sam takes rocky road to the top | 06/09/2010 |
| The Times | GCSE league tables | 04/09/2010 |
| Evening Standard | GCSE: The fee-paying schools (league table) | 03/09/2010 |
| Evening Standard | My girls have to be forced to stop working, says head of top school (Anna Davis) | 03/09/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | Magdalen ranked best school at A-level | 02/09/2010 |
2009-2010
| Newspaper/Magazine | Title | Date |
| Conference and Common Room | What to say to our sixth formers (Dr Tim Hands) | Spring 2010 |
| The Sunday Times | Half of Cambridge entrants have 3 A*s (Jack Grimston and Liz Lightfoot) | 29/08/2010 |
| Mail (online) | A-levels are 'so boring' says top school's head who wants a tougher exam for her students (Laura Clark) | 28/08/2010 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Independent Schools A-level results league table | 28/08/2010 |
| The Times | Independent Schools A-level results league table | 28/08/2010 |
| Evening Standard | A-levels: how private schools fared (league table) | 27/08/2010 |
| Evening Standard | My pupils did not deserve A*s, says top private headmaster | 27/08/2010 |
| TES | Oxbridge bound? | 27/08/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | Oxfordshire league table | 26/08/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | Reading the stars (Dr Tim Hands) | 26/08/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | The best set of GCSE results Oxfordshire has ever seen, & GCSE results table | 26/08/2010 |
| The Times | Studies took my mind off brain tumour | 25/08/2010 |
| The Times | Ahead of the race (Greg Hurst) | 20/08/2010 |
| The Oxford Mail | A-levels: grading changes cause problems | 20/08/2010 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Clear round. Show jumper wins top grades | 20/08/2010 |
| The Times | Joy of making the grade | 20/08/2010 |
| The Oxford Mail | Star performer jumping for joy | 20/08/2010 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Warning that new A-grade system puts state pupils at a disadvantage (Graeme Paton) | 20/08/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | In a league of its own | 19/08/2010 |
| Telegraph (online) | Top equestrian scores five top A-levels (Nick Collins) | 19/08/2010 |
| Guardian (online) | What are universities' reasons for rejecting students? (Jessica Shepherd) | 13/07/2010 |
| Oxford Mail | Oxford students tackle 'emergency' (re Blake Lapthorne programme) | 01/07/2010 |
| Oxford Times | The Gentleman Usher | 30/06/2010 |
| The Oxford Times | Finger lickin' good: Giles Woodforde looks forward to the second summer arts festival at Magdalen College School | 24/06/2010 |
| The Sunday Times | Poor to get easier entry into university (Jack Grimston) | 20/06/2010 |
| Oxford Mail | Arts Festival promises plenty of drama | 14/06/2010 |
| Evening Standard | Higher university fees 'will speed up brain drain to US' (Tim Ross) | 18/05/2010 |
| Oxford Mail | Oxford boys make right moves at chess | 06/05/2010 |
| Oxford Mail | Stranded as nightmare continues for travellers by ash crisis (Chris Buratta) | 20/04/2010 |
| The Sunday Times | Glut of A* supergrades for pupils at private schools (Jack Grimston and Liz Lightfoot) | 21/03/2010 |
| Financial Times (online) | Exam results remain centre of attention (Simon Briscoe and David Turner) | 20/03/2010 |
| Financial Times (online) | Reputation is more valuable than statistics (David Turner) | 19/03/2010 |
| Times (online) | More than half of A-level exams sat at private schools are graded A (Greg Hurst and Nicola Woolcock) | 17/03/2010 |
| The Times | No university places for 50,000 with good grades (Joanna Sugden) | 17/03/2010 |
| Mail (online) | University? Try again in a few years warns Ucas head as 300,000 face missing out (Nick Mcdermott) | 17/03/2010 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Institutions must be allowed free rein on candidates (Andrew Grant) | 26/02/2010 |
| The Sunday Times | Even A* pupils now face college rejection (Jack Grimston and Liz Lightfoot) | 14/02/2010 |
| The Independent Schools Magazine | Different models | February 2010 |
| The Sunday Times (online) | Labour curbs fail to loosen grip of middle class on top universities (Jack Grimston) | 31/01/2010 |
| Oxford Mail | Setting pace for university (Oxbridge offers) | 18/01/2010 |
| The Sunday Times | Universities dismiss new top A-level as unfair to state pupils (Jack Grimston and Matthew Holehouse) | 20/12/2009 |
| Mail (online) | Bright pupils 'will miss out' in row over A* A-levels (Laura Clark) | 08/10/2009 |
| Telegraph (online) | A-level row sparks university admissions fears (Graeme Paton) | 07/10/2009 |
| Times (online) | Chaos predicted as Oxford says it will ignore A* grades (Joanna Sugden) | 07/10/2009 |
| London Evening Standard (online) | Thousands of teenagers are facing a new university admissions crisis as schools warn that 'political correctness' has left the Government's reformed A-levels in disarray (Tim Ross) | 07/10/2009 |
| Evening Standard | Universities at odds over top A-level grade (Tim Ross) | 07/10/2009 |
| Telegraph (online) | A-level grades 'fixed', claim schools (Graeme Paton) | 04/10/2009 |
| The Times | Independent school heads turn against GCSEs as the state sector is left behind (Joanna Sugden) | 05/09/2009 |
| Tatler's School Guide 2010 | Public Schools | 2010 |
2008-2009
| Newspaper/Magazine | Title | Date |
| Oxford Mail | Boys jump to ring bells | 18/12/2009 |
| Oxford Times | Building on tradi | 15/10/2009 |
| Oxford Mail | Turning pupils into dragons | 15/10/2009 |
| Oxford Times | Where to next? | 17/09/2009 |
| The Daily Telegraph | University 'head start' for the poor (Jon Swaine) | 10/08/2009 |
| The Sunday Times | Mandelson to favour poor pupils (Jack Grimston) | 09/08/2009 |
| Oxford Mail | Benn's visit brings out crowd | 30/06/2009 |
| Oxford Times | It's a first | 18/06/2009 |
| The Times | The perfect excuse to get out of the classroom | 03/06/2009 |
| Financial Times | Top Independent Schools | 21/03/2009 |
| The Oxford Times | Chaplain won't leave money to MCS in protest (Fran Bardsley) | 19/03/2009 |
| Oxford Mail | MCS vote to allow girls leads to legacy snub (Fran Bardsley) | 14/03/2009 |
| The Oxford Times | Magdalen to admit girls in sixth form (Fran Bardsley) | 12/03/2009 |
| Mail (online) | Top boys' school to admit girls for first time in 530 years | 11/03/2009 |
| Oxford Mail (online) | Problems caused by city water leak (Matt Wilkinson) | 31/12/2008 |
| The Oxford Times | Article on being made The Sunday Times Independent School of the Year for the second time, the first boys' or co-educational school to receive this award | 13/11/2008 |
| Times Higher Education | Head teachers brand trade-up plan a 'sop' (Rebecca Attwood) | 16/10/2008 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Independent Schools A-level results league table | 13/09/2008 |
| The Daily Telegraph | Independent Schools GCSE results league table | 13/09/2008 |
| The Daily Telegraph | (Help is on hand for tough times) Study the cost (Jessica Salter) | 13/09/2008 |
| The Daily Telegraph | What price a real education? (Tamsin Kelly) | 13/09/2008 |
| Financial Times | FT Top Independent Schools | 13/09/2008 |
| Tatler's School Guide | Magdalen College School | 2009 |