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Image description: the radcam The university has today announced that in-person teaching will not return until Trinity term, for all but a few exempted courses. Unless students hear from their faculty otherwise, or have communicated with their colleges, they are being told not to return to Oxford for the remainder of term. Further to this […]
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Image description: shoppers inside the covered market, by the Garden shop After a delay due to the pandemic, the city council has announced plans this week to regenerate and improve the Covered Market. The council’s ‘masterplan’ will consider improving entrances, enabling events, and improving public facilities. Work based on the plan would be set to […]
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Image description: the Oxford Union The SU LGBTQ campaign has criticised the Oxford Union’s invitation of Debra Soh, a Canadian columnist and writer. Debra Soh is currently scheduled to speak at an online event for the Oxford Union on February 19th. Soh, who has a Ph.D. in sexual neuroscience, is described on the Union website […]
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Image description: the logos of the student newspapers backing this statement. As the editors of Russell Group student newspapers, we are writing collectively to request a reversal of the Russell Group’s statement, 7 January 2020, ‘on ensuring fair assessment and protecting the integrity of degrees.’ As editors, not only are we students or recent students […]
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Image description: envelopes and the oxstu logo Our newsletter is back! Want some more OxStu in your life? Of course you do. Sign up below using your email address to get a weekly round-up every Monday of term, and start your week off right. We’ll send you all the stories you might have missed, and […]
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Image description: A letter with the oxstu logo being placed into a pigeon hole. By this point, it would probably be redundant to talk about how different term, and by extension OxStu, is going to be this Hilary. Instead, I want to let you all know about what I’m personally most excited for over the […]
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Image description: a view of the Radcliffe Camera, with the logos of the Oxford Student, Cherwell and the Oxford Blue. It is an understatement to say that we are living in extraordinary times. Last March, the UK, along with the rest of the world, came to a grinding halt at the onset of the COVID-19 […]
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Image description: Oxford High Street at night. 3,500 students have now been offered undergraduate places at the University for the next academic year, starting in October. The admissions process was extremely competitive: for every one undergraduate place, there were nearly seven applications. The admissions process this year differed due to the effects of the COVID-19 […]
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Image description: Collage of newspapers and a type writer, with the words ‘Agony Aunts’ in purple. BACK FOR HILARY TERM: The Oxford Student have two new Agony Aunts! Falling in love with your flatmate? Addicted to the Pret coffee subscription? Failed to read anything from your reading list before 2am? Never heard back from that […]
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Image Description: The back of Keble College An emergency meeting was held today at Keble College regarding the return of students without permission from the accommodation office. This follows a number of changes to the government and university guidance about returning for Hilary Term. In a message to the JCR seen by the Oxford Student, […]
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Image description: view of the Oxford skyline from South Park A report released today by the Office for National Statistics suggests that students are similarly compliant with COVID-19 restrictions and guidelines as the general population. The report also shows that student well-being has suffered extensively during the pandemic: one student at the university told the […]
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Image description: digital art with the words artist, and ‘Create for Oxstu’ The Oxford Student is looking for illustrators, photographers, graphic designers, and creatives of all kinds. This term, we are hoping to expand our search to include freelance artists and cartoonists. The OxStu will be introducing a new cartoon column where original student drawings […]
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Image description: A still from Nauman’s Clown Torture (1987) depicting a close-up shot of a clown screaming. Arriving at the Tate Modern, I knew very little about the American artist Bruce Nauman. Based on a couple of Instagram posts which had popped up over the last month, I was expecting bright neon lights, and a […]
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Image description: Billboard advertising the new marketing director position Applications are now open for the first marketing director of the Oxford Student. This role will involve working with the Student Union’s commercial department to streamline our advertising and marketing reach. This will involve working with print and online to further the brand’s ability to work […]
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Image description: A poster for the play, reading “this is going to feel a bit strange” With no choice but to spend far too much time staring at screens this year, when I first read about Simulacrum, I was decidedly unenthused at the prospect of spending yet another hour and a half of my life […]
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Image Description: the publicity poster for V-Card (a pink background, with ‘V-Card’ written in white and filled with peach, banana, and water drop emojis). Candid, raw, and laugh out loud funny, V-Card is an unabashed confrontation of societal myths and misconceptions about sex and relationships, made all the more endearing through its likeable characters, all-too relatable mishaps, […]
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