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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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“Burning down the house”, a popular club night, will be moving from The Cellar to Cirkus, a new nightclub opened on George Street. This decision follows a recent fire risk assessment which has meant that the capacity of the club has had to be restricted severely, since the fire escape was not considered adequately safe […]
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Swiss prosecutors have opened new rape case against Tariq Ramadan. Prosecutors in Geneva, Switzerland, have disclosed that they have opened a rape and sexual misconduct investigation against Tariq Ramadan, an Oxford University Islamic scholar. Ramadan was initially detained in France earlier this year over rape allegations made by four women. Earlier this year, French judges […]
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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: 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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Image Credit: Spigoo (CC BY 2.0) Following an attack on a campaign stall at Carfax last Friday evening, a group of Oxford campaigns have come together to call a ‘We will not be silenced” protest. The stall was run by a local socialist group who were campaigning against the statements made by the Former Foreign […]
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Image Credit: Chris McAuley / The First Oxfam Shop / CC BY-SA 2.0 The multi-millionaire catering boss, Richard Cousins, has left £41m to the Oxford-based charity, Oxfam, after dying alongside his family in a plane crash. Mr Cousins was chief executive of Compass Group, and was only 58 years old, when he died alongside his fiancée, magazine editor Emma Bowden, […]
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Image Credit: Andrew Shiva (CC BY-SA 4.0) A professor at Oxford was forced to retire in 2016 in order to promote diversity, an employment tribunal has been told. John Pitcher, who specialised in Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and was a fellow at St Johns College, was made to retire at the age of 67 despite […]
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Image Credit: Photo © Jonathan Billinger (cc-by-sa/2.0) St John’s College has topped the Norrington table for 2018, knocking last year’s first place, New College, into fifth place. The list, which ranks Oxford Colleges by the grades of their finalists, was derived by the eponymous Sir Arthur Norrington during the 1960s. Of 108 finalists, over half […]
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