Chelsea moves to Oxford?

Bill and Chelsea Clinton have been linked to Oxford

Chelsea Clinton could follow her father's example and attend Oxford University.

The daughter of the US president, now studying at Stanford University, is to begin a postgraduate course at Oxford University in autumn 2001, claims the newspaper column of television presenter, Larry King.

The 20-year-old student has been on an official visit to Africa with her father and has been helping her mother's senate election campaign - but is still due to finish her university studies at Stanford next summer.

This is the latest rumour linking the Clintons with Oxford - as earlier this year there was widespread speculation that Bill Clinton would lecture at the university once he had retired from the presidency.

The university, which gave the president and former Oxford student an honorary degree in 1994, had said that it was looking forward to "building on our existing relationship with President Clinton".

It had been suggested that he would become a lecturer at the Rothermere American Institute - part of the university dedicated to furthering an understanding of the United States.

But the "relationship" announced by Oxford University could now be with one of the president's relations, rather than the president himself.

Mr Clinton studied politics at Oxford between 1968 and 1970 under the Rhodes Scholarship scheme, which helps students from the United States to study at the University of Oxford.

And it was as a student there that the president famously "didn't inhale" cannabis at a party.