Who is to blame for This Bod-ged Job?
Ever tighter government funding has led Oxford's bibliophiles to become amateur economists in recent years, and last month's fiasco at the Bodleian shows them up as exactly that: amateurs. Their lesson for us this week at the Oxford Student was simple; that in order to make money, you have to spend money.
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Editorial: A Trinity of Questions
Philip Keevil is angry because his son did not get into Oxford, despite his attempts to smooth the path with donations large enough to soothe the Bodleian's losses. He then gripes that his son did not receive special treatment - he got the same rejection letter as thousands of other students up and down the country, despite his father's fundraising activities. Is this finally good news for the Oxford admissions process? Proof that all applicants, whether they come from one stereotypical extreme, a Northern comprehensive, or the other, a Home Counties public school, stand an equal chance of getting a place here? Well, maybe. It's certainly a 'good news' story. It makes Trinity look good. By extension it makes Oxford look good. It's not going to solve our PR problem, but it's a start....
Editorial: Editorial
Recorded classical music today is probably at its lowest ever point. Sales have slumped and, naturally, so have the number of new recordings released each year. It is not at all surprising. The market is flooded with many fine recordings of almost all of the popular works. If you want to go out and buy Beethoven's Fifth Symphony or Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, there are so many good versions that merely adequate new releases hardly get a look in. ...