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Image Credit: Diliff Three Oxford students have been recognised at the inaugural Student Social Mobility Awards. The Awards, hosted by social mobility charity upReach at the House of Lords, showcased the outstanding achievements of students from less-advantaged backgrounds. 22 undergraduates were presented with awards, including Renée Kapuku (Keble College and previous president of Oxford University […]
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Image Credit: Lucie Blackman Trust When I became Features Editor at the beginning of December, my first thought was ‘Great! I can write a travel piece on New Zealand’. On the 2nd of December I set off from Newcastle for Auckland, a two day journey. When I left the UK, Grace had already been murdered; […]
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The universities of Oxford and Cambridge have pledged to improve the experience of students studying without family support. Among the commitments, the University of Oxford has announced it will provide a non-repayable bursary of up to £7,200 pa to pay for vacation accommodation, with other students where possible, and unlimited access to counselling services. The […]
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Image credit: Cmglee. Description: the Westminster School, London, the students of which get 70-80 Oxbridge places per year. Eight top schools have as many Oxbridge admissions as the next 2894 UK schools combined, according to a new report by the Sutton Trust. The Trust suggests that little has changed regarding access to opportunity at Oxbridge […]
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Image credit: Geograph – N Chadwick The University of Oxford has today publicised plans for a new graduate college, located centrally within the town. Its intake will comprise largely of students from the Mathematics, Physics and Life Sciences departments, with some provision for other subjects. According to the official announcement, the college will provide particular space […]
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Image Credit: Steve Daniels Oxford University researchers have recently pioneered a new technique in the fight against cancer. They utilised a virus, called enadenotucirev, which was developed to fight carcinoma; cancer of the epithelial cells of the skin and organ lining. The treatment’s innovation was to allow the virus to target not just the cancer […]
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Oxford University has announced that the Tinbergen building is to be demolished and replaced with new state-of-the-art facilities. Tinbergen was abandoned in February 2017 after absestos was discovered in the building and has been empty ever since. The new centre will house the Departments of Experimental Psychology, Plant Sciences and Zoology which were once hosted […]
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Image Credit: Oxford PakSoc On the 11th November, Oxford’s PakSoc hosted their inaugural Access Conference in Lady Margaret Hall, which hosted around 100 students of Pakistani origin from across the UK. It was the first University Access Conference in the UK specifically for students of Pakistani origin, with the aim to encourage prospective applicants for […]
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Plush is to move into the Oxford Union’s cellar which has hosted Purple Turtle for twenty years. The move is expected to take place in January 2019. The Oxford Union announced Monday 8th week that “Plush have accepted a long-term lease on Frewin Court, and we look forward to welcoming them. The club was founded […]
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Image Credit: Brigade Piron On Sunday of 7th week, the Somerville JCR voted against flying the Union Flag for ‘national days’ such as Remembrance Day and the birthday of the Sovereign, following a heated debate. The JCR motion noted that “the college does not fly the Union Flag on the birthdays of senior royals, including that […]
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Picture Credit: Jeremiah Vandermeer (CC BY 2.0) A gift made to the University by artificial intelligence company DeepMind has seen the creation of new graduate scholarships for computer science courses. On a statement on the University’s website, it was announced that: “the donation will be used by Oxford to launch a new scholarship programme to support […]
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Image Credit: Julie Simmons On the night of Saturday 17th, a number of swastikas were spray painted onto the walls of Quarry Pavilion, a community centre located on Margaret Road in Oxford. City Councillor Shaista Aziz took pictures of the graffiti and posted on Twitter that she was “Absolutely disgusted to see Nazi signs sprayed […]
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Image Credits: James Ashworth Around 60 Oxford students today took part in a sexual consent protest on Cornmarket Street, highlighting the recent case of Irish lawyer Elizabeth O’Connell using a girl’s underwear as part of her closing statement, after which the accused was found not guilty. The protesters hung a line of lacey underwear, like […]
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Image Credit: Oxford SU Monday 19th November saw the Oxford Student’s Union host its first leadership event aimed at BAME students. Held at Merton College from 5:30-9pm, attendees were witness to a range of talks focusing on four key topics: being the only BAME person in the room; managing conflict; being a student leader; and […]
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Image Credit: Chris Allen An executive member of the Hertford JCR lost £400 of common room funds after forgetting to cancel a booking. The mistake was revealed in an apologetic email sent to all members of the Hertford JCR. In the email, the executive officer confessed that they had placed a venue booking for a […]
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Image Credit: Oxford Climate Justice Campaign The Oxford Climate Justice Campaign marched in protest on Wednesday for a “divested, disarmed and decolonized university”. The protest, which will take place on the National Day of Action on Divestment, will start at 12pm at Pembroke College. Protesters will then march to Exeter and New College. According to […]
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Image Credit: University College, Oxford University College has built a new war memorial in commemoration of Rolf Wilhelm Baron von Seldeneck, the college’s only German casualty in either World War. Rolf joined University College in 1911, where he studied for a year, before joining the army in 1914. He was then killed on 24 January […]
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Image Credit: Tom Gould Oxford Union President Stephen Horvath’s decision to host former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon on Friday of 6th week has continued to cause fallout within the society and across the University. Last week, The Oxford Student reported on the heated Emergency Meeting called by Union Secretary Nick Brown, in which […]
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Image Credit: David Iliff Numerous Colleges and University buildings have been recognised for their architectural achievements in the recent Oxford Preservation Trust Awards. The awards, founded in 1977 and whose ethos is ‘Keeping the best of the old and encouraging the best of the new’, recognise outstanding building work in Oxford. They give awards in […]
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