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Image Credit: Gage Skidmore (cc-by-sa-2.0) If you thought plots were often confusing in the films of Christopher Nolan, then you won’t get any relief from his younger brother. Preferring the small screen, writers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy deliver a patchy return to the futuristic domain of hosts and humans in the second series of […]
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Image Credit: Photo © Jonathan Billinger (cc-by-sa/2.0) It has been revealed that the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge collaborated in their responses to the Universities UK 2017 survey on the academics’ pensions. Universities UK (UUK) ran the survey on the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to review the way academics’ pensions are managed. One issue arising from the survey, […]
Continue ReadingImage Credit: Photo © Jaggery (cc-by-sa/2.0) The History Faculty has recently U-turned on a decision to bring forward deadlines for thesis title submissions. The proposed changes were thought to be the solution to the time constraints felt by the Board of Examiners in finding examiners with appropriate expertise to mark theses. The faculty was required to consult students […]
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In 1865, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson made history as the first women to qualify as a physician and surgeon. Since then, considerable gender equality advancements have been made for workers of the NHS. In 1874, the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors was founded. Just two years later, a law was passed […]
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Ever since Dustin Hoffman won the Oscar for Best Actor playing Rain Man, half of Best Actor Oscars have been won by men playing characters with significant disability. The 2018 Academy Awards have recently graced our screens; including Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar-winning performance last year in The Theory of Everything as motor neurone disease (MND) sufferer […]
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As a social construct, coming of age occurs throughout adolescence, marking a young person’s transition from child to adult and hence achieving self-actualisation and self-realisation. The search for self-actualisation and self-realisation is conducted blindly; we find ourselves as adolescents suffering an incomprehensible series of apparently random preferences, revulsions, divagations and evasions. At the time we […]
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I write this article as I hear protestors outside Queen’s College chanting “hate speech kills”, “trans rights are human rights” and “take that O’Neill”. A controversialist libertarian and former Marxist, journalist Brendan O’Neill is unashamedly pro-free speech. He edits online magazine Spiked that focuses on issues related to politics, culture and society. Its writers regularly […]
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Students who have taken out tuition fee loans to cover the cost of university studies will now be able to earn more before having to begin repaying them. This latest decision will affect all English and Welsh students who have taken out loans for university fees since the yearly cost of higher education rose to […]
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Lady Margaret Hall has replaced portraits of male Oxford dons with prominent female alumni in a drive to end the “monopoly of portraits of men”. Nigella Lawson, celebrity chef and food writer who graduated Oxford with a degree in modern and medieval languages, is one LMH alumna whose portrait is being showcased at the college. […]
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Three unseen Tolkien illustrations will be coming to Oxford this summer as part of a major exhibition at the Bodleian Library. ‘Tolkien: Maker of Middle Earth’ will highlight a number of his works, featuring an array of manuscripts, letters, maps and artworks. Many of the exhibits are part of the Bodleian’s Tolkien archive, the world’s […]
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The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical diagnosis and treatment is a swiftly burgeoning area of technology. Brainomix, a medical imaging company, is at the forefront of this. Specifically, they use AI for rapid diagnosis and treatment for victims of strokes. Brainomix was launched in 2010 as a spin-out of Oxford University, with the […]
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On the 28TH March, the University announced its ‘BREXIT Strategy for Research’, which explains how it will work to mitigate any risks associated with Brexit. The outcomes that Oxford hopes for have remained “unchanged”. These include being able to maintain world-class collaborative research with EU colleagues, to continue to host European Research Council grants, and […]
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Colleagues, friends, family and fans lined the streets of Cambridge yesterday to pay their respects to the world famous physicist Stephen Hawking, who sadly passed away two weeks ago. He had been an undergraduate at University College, Oxford, graduating with a first class degree in Natural Sciences in 1962. Professor Hawking had long struggled with […]
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Shakira Martin has defeated Sahaya James and Momin Saqib to retain the presidency of the National Union of Students, winning 352 of the 690 delegate votes cast. This very comfortable victory represented 50.9% of the vote, compared to nearest rival Momin Saqib’s 24.3%. Despite previously being touted by The Guardian as “Martin’s main rival”, Sahaya […]
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The Varsity Match and the Rugby Football Union (RFU) have today agreed a new four-year deal that will see the annual Rugby Varsity Matches between Oxford and Cambridge continue to be hosted at Twickenham, the Home of England Rugby, until 2021. This deal comes ahead of the 100th Anniversary Varsity Match at Twickenham, and is […]
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An Oxford University student who stabbed her boyfriend in the leg with a breadknife has been denied permission to appeal her sentence. Woodward can, however, still apply to have her case heard by a full court of two or three judges. The 24 year old medical student was given a 10 month suspended jail sentence […]
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Universities have been warned, by MPs and peers, that they cannot become ‘safe spaces’ as they have a responsibility to “protect the right to free speech, in line with their statutory duty”. The joint committee on human rights (JCHR), chaired by former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman, has collated evidence from university […]
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Oxford University has today published a report on the institution’s gender pay gap, reporting a 24.5% mean gender pay gap which is higher than the national average. Other figures released show a 13.7% median gender pay gap (lower than the national average) and a mean bonus pay gap of 79%. A higher proportion of women […]
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The Philosophy Faculty have recently announced a series of measures aimed at boosting female engagement with the subject by ‘feminising the curriculum’. To achieve this the Faculty recommends that 40% of the authors on the reading list should be women and that a writer’s first name is used, rather than using initials, to make it […]
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