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Image Credit: Quangpraha (CC0) By the time I get a chance to talk to Michael, The Fishermen has already made the long journey down from Edinburgh to London. It’s where both Michael Ajao and Valentine Olukoga, the stars of the award-winning stage performance, come from, and the difference in energy there is apparently palpable – with […]
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Image Credit: Mike Peel (CC BY-SA 4.0) Oxford University RFC men have narrowly lost to the Madagascar national team in a match that was decided after the 80th minute. Despite being denied a victory on the opening match of their tour, OURFC will be encouraged by a performance that saw the lead change hands and […]
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Image Credit: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) The Oscar nominated actor Jude Law is to visit the Oxford Union next term. Law, 45, is perhaps best known for his roles as Watson to Robert Downey Jr’s Sherlock Holmes, having also worked with a range of directors including Stephen Spielberg, Wes Anderson and Steven Soderbergh. More […]
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Image Credit: Oxford University Oxford University has today released an audio guide of the city for new and prospective students. The guide, called Know Your Oxford, takes the listener on a guided tour of the University, aiming to break down the terminology and traditions associated with Oxford, while also providing historical information about the city […]
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Image Credit: Pollyanna Johnson Daisy Johnson, an Oxford graduate, was today announced as the youngest author to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Johnson, 27, studied for a master’s degree in creative writing at the University, and still lives in Oxford. ‘Everything Under’ is her debut novel. It follows the story of Gretel, a […]
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Image Credit: 2 Degrees Institute/http://www.methanelevels.org Since the target to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius was set in the Paris Climate agreement, those in politics have focused their attention on the notorious and vilified CO2. But what about Methane? There is no doubt that those in the scientific community have known about the […]
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Image Credit: Peter Trimming (CC BY-SA 2.0) Yesterday, August 17th, police released details of an assault that took place on George Street earlier this month. A gang of 10 young people, all male, are said to have chased a 17-year old boy down George Street before violently assaulting him and taking his debit card. The […]
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Image Credit: YouGov Oxford University has been voted the UK’s most prestigious in a recent survey by the polling organisation YouGov. In the poll, conducted using 1640 British adults on the 14th and 15th August, participants were asked “Which university do you consider to be the UK’s most prestigious?” The overall answer was overwhelmingly for […]
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Image Credit: Department for Transport/Oxford Mail The Government’s preferred option for the new Oxford to Cambridge road link has been announced. The new expressway, or dual carriageway, aims to provide a direct road link between Oxford and Cambridge via Milton Keynes, connecting what a report by Highways England calls “some of the UK’s most successful, […]
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Image Credit: Edwin Martinez (CC BY 2.0) Serena Williams behaved poorly in the 2018 US Open Final. She lost her cool. On balance, she probably did deserve to be called on a violation for her outburst against umpire Carlos Ramos. But the salient question is not whether or not she deserved it according to the […]
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Image Credit: bhossfeld (CC0) Ebola is a highly virulent viral disease that spreads to humans from infected animals. Predominantly spreading throughout Africa, it was relatively obscure until 2013. Starting in 2013, a large scale outbreak shocked the world with the possibility that it could spread trans-nationally. Although it does seem that the defences against Ebola […]
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Image Credit: Photo © Jonathan Billinger (cc-by-sa/2.0) Note: the article that follows is a work of satire, and therefore should not be taken as factual Academics have been banned from the university, after a decision unanimously agreed by senior management and student representatives. While academics have traditionally been considered a necessary part of a university, […]
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Image Credit: Duncan Hull (CC BY 2.0) A group of eleven European funding organisations which contribute annually around £5.9 billion in grants for scientists, have agreed to ensure that scientific papers written by their grantees shall be open access from the point of publication. This will be accomplished by banning their grantees from publishing in […]
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Image Credit: Kelly Hill (CC BY-SA 4.0) Siân Berry, a graduate of Oxford University, has recently been elected joint leader of the Green Party alongside Jonathan Bartley. Bartley had previously shared this role with Caroline Lucas, the Green Party’s only sitting MP. However, following her decision not to stand again, Bartley instead ran for leader […]
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Image Credit: Labour Youth (CC BY 2.0) Charlotte Austin, a student at Jesus College, has been elected to Labour’s National Policy Forum (NPF), a body that shapes the manifesto of the Party. The NPF is a 204-strong body consisting of members from across the Labour movement, including MPs, constituency groups and Trade Unions. It was […]
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Image Credit: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election, will be visiting Oxford in October 2018, The Oxford Student can reveal. The Bonavero Institute, located within Mansfield college, is holding two events to mark the 70th anniversary of the adoption of […]
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More than a decade in the making, a collaboration between the University of Oxford, Erlangen in Germany and the Cleveland Clinic in the USA has published a breakthrough study in The Lancet journal this week. The team at the University of Oxford has developed a way of measuring coronary inflammation, allowing doctors to better detect the […]
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Image Credit: Oxford University Yacht Club Members of Oxford University Yacht Club have completed one of the toughest offshore races in the world: the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race. The race covered 1,805 nautical miles and took the Oxford crew just over 13 days to complete. The crew finished at 1:30pm on Saturday 25th […]
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Image Credit: NPUK Niemann-Pick diseases are one of many rare groups of genetic disorders that are largely unheard of. As such, the amazing work and research that goes into improving the lives of sufferers, and hopefully developing a cure rarely gets the recognition it deserves. The three Niemann-Pick diseases (A,B and C) are caused by […]
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