Oxford University launches project to help local public schools.

After centuries of building walls to prevent the " townies " out of the University of Oxford is to build some bridges through an innovative initiative to improve the public schools of the city.

The Dean of the University of Oxford - as the project is called its official launch on Tuesday - is the oldest university response to suggestions that he should do more for education funded by the state in its backyard.

While some universities - as Birmingham and UCL - have sponsored academies or free schools , Oxford has resisted pressure to do so , citing the damage that a school with college would imprimatur . The demand study would be colossal Oxford brand.

Instead , the university has embarked on an ambitious effort to raise the profile and the overall level of schools in the state sector of the city.

Teachers in secondary schools in the city will be the first to benefit directly , through links with the education department and scholarships offered professional development.

Katherine Ryan , director of the Matthew Arnold School in West Oxford, said the plan was part of a campaign to raise standards in local schools - and demonstrated that efforts to improve education in schools does not only come from the government center .

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