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Oxford University’s Early Alert Service has recorded 212 new positive cases between 24th October and 30th October. This is a change from 208 recorded in the previous week, bringing the University’s total cases to 708 since it started testing in August. The cases were recorded from 727 tests, which gives a weekly positivity rate of […]
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Image Description: Clothing rail with hanging clothes illustrated under the Bridge of Sighs So it’s Third week (already?) and you’ve either exhausted the top tier outfits you collected over summer ready to show off at your suitably distanced events or you never quite thought about styling yourself and now you’re surrounded by Oxford’s finest fashion […]
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Image Description: Two deer fight, overlayed with the logos of Oxford City Council on one side, and Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University on the other A similar sense of dread is settling over Oxford as it was in the panicked last week of Hilary Term. We know a little more about the virus than […]
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Professor Sunetra Gupta of the Zoology department has had her proposal of herd immunity as a solution to the Covid-19 pandemic criticised by other leading scientists and student groups. Gupta co-wrote the ‘Great Barrington Declaration’ alongside Harvard’s Professor Martin Kulldorff and Stanford Fellow Jay Bhattacharya. The Declaration calls for the elderly and vulnerable to shield […]
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Though there is definitely a need to recognise the achievements of black people, and there is obviously nothing wrong with Black History Month in itself, there are instances when it can appear to be performative. When not accompanied by a commitment from the government to making education more representative for the other eleven months of […]
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Somerville College has been accused of inaction after it responded to a party of approximately 35-40 students, held on Monday in its Vaughan accommodation building, by cancelling a single online club night. This follows Somerville Principal Jan Royall, who is co-chair of the Michaelmas Coordination Group, telling the Oxford Student last week that “…if a […]
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Oxford has been placed back on amber alert and is close to the threshold for local restrictions after a significant increase in coronavirus cases this week, and speaking to The Oxford Student today, the University assures that its students are “great citizens who understand their responsibility.” The seven days to the 25th September saw 67 […]
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In today’s Virtual Town Hall, representatives from both the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University made it clear that they would not prevent students from visiting home, as long as they have not been told to isolate. The question was posed by a concerned resident, worried that the lack of social experience at University […]
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The Oxford Student can reveal photographs of the £28.57 per day meals received by quarantining international students, with one student referring to them as “nasty”, and several students reporting undelivered food. One student described the food as “pretty gross” and that “almost every night so far someone has ended up without a dinner”. When asked […]
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The University Congregation has voted to abolish the Graduate Application Fee by 419-380 votes. The £75 application fee, which had been criticised as undermining access and diversity efforts by discriminating against those from low-income backgrounds, will be phased out by 2024-25. The vote was on the resolution: ‘To commit the University to the abolition of […]
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The Prime Minister has today visited the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute following the restart of vaccine trials last week. Johnson was given a tour of the laboratory and also met some of the scientists at the forefront of its development. This comes at a time when the Prime Minister has said the UK is […]
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Image Description: Members of Oxford University Swimming Club jump into a pool to celebrating Oxford University has today announced that the Iffley Road sports facility will not be used for teaching and academic purposes in the upcoming Michaelmas term. This comes after a student petition was signed by over 1,500 students protesting the potential change […]
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Clinical trials of the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine will resume after they were paused on September 6th due to unexplained neurological symptoms in a participant. At the time, AstraZeneca described it as a “routine” pause in the case of “an unexplained illness”. In a press release, AstraZeneca announced that “Clinical trials for the AstraZeneca Oxford coronavirus […]
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Following news that Cambridge University would be conducting weekly, in-college testing of asymptomatic students, many students at Oxford have expressed concerns as to why their university had not announced a similar policy. The University has now offered an official response exclusively to The Oxford Student, explaining their testing system, and why they do not have […]
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Alumni of Lincoln College have launched an appeal to raise £22,000 in order to relieve some of the financial pressures the College is facing after it honoured the place of all offer holders, taking in 11 additional students in this year’s cohort. The financial pressure of accommodating these students has also been worsened by the […]
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“I’m very, very glad that it has finally been sorted out”. These were the words of Boris Johnson on Wednesday, speaking to a group of students at a school in Leicestershire. Yet, it turns out (come on, someone at least pretend to be surprised) that this is complete and utter rubbish. 1900 state schools in […]
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This article was originally titled: Colleges Change Admissions Policies Amidst Major U-Turn On A-Level Results but has been adjusted to reflect the latest news. UPDATE: Oxford University has now released a statement confirming they will honour the places of all offer-holders whose Centre-Assessed Grades meet their conditional offer. The University now faces “capacity constraints both […]
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The University of Oxford has today released an official statement on the controversy surrounding this year’s admissions, specifically the handling of UK A-Level results, after a significant number (40%) of grades were downgraded by Ofqual, and many Oxford offer-holders missed their target grades. The University has stated that “over half of students who missed their […]
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