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Molly Mantle has been elected to serve as Oxford Union President in Hilary 2022 in a hotly-contested election. Mantle, the current Librarian and a second-year PPE student from St Hugh’s College, received 402 first preference votes, and defeated Viren Shetty from Christ Church, the current Treasurer who had been backed by the incumbent President Adam […]
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Image Description: A photo mock up of the new public square on Broad Street. The Oxford City Council are planning on creating a temporary public square in Broad Street this summer, and have submitted an application to close part of Broad Street to traffic. The project will create a new city centre destination for Oxford […]
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The Faculty of History is establishing a new LGBTQ+ Working Group, chaired by Dr Sloan Mahone, which will meet once a term and report to the Faculty’s Equality & Diversity Committee. This is the latest measure the History faculty has undertaken in line with its public commitment to gender and LGBTQ+ equality. Currently, the Faculty […]
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Image Description: St John’s College, Oxford. Thomas West Oxford, a contractor used by St John’s College Oxford at their North Oxford building site, has updated its wildlife policy after it was reported by a local resident that a lawn mower had run over a baby Roe Fawn on Friday 28th May. A Change.org petition stated […]
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Image Description: Yellow flowers with the Radcliffe Camera in the background. Research by Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Fellow, Professor David Macdonald, has shown that neither bats nor pangolins were sold at Wuhan’s wet markets between May 2017 and November 2019. Until now the leading hypothesis for the origins of COVID-19, the disease responsible for the ongoing […]
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Image Description: Prince Charles joins EU leaders at Low Carbon Prosperity Summit. On the 8th of June, Tuesday, the Prince of Wales visited Somerville College as it celebrates its 140th anniversary and marks 100 years of Oxford degrees for women. Prince Charles was greeted on arrival by Somerville’s Principal, Baroness Janet Royall. Baroness Royall accompanied […]
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The Conference of Colleges, a forum for the colleges and permanent private halls (PPHs) at Oxford to deal with matters of shared interest and common purpose, have published a report on 21st May detailing a range of sustainability practices in place across the collegiate University. The report showcases the numerous actions that the colleges and […]
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Image Description: the Radcliffe Camera with pink flowers in the foreground. The University of Oxford is set to launch a new Pandemic Sciences Centre, to strengthen the ability of both academics and public health to respond to future pandemics. The centre will incorporate a variety of institutes and expand on the global collaborative research that […]
Continue ReadingOn 5th June, one of our editors published a piece which contained plagiarised passages from an existing article written by Nylah Burton, available here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7e4wx/learning-indigenous-languages-climate-crisis The Oxford Student takes plagiarism very seriously, and pulled the article in question immediately once we were made aware of it. We have retracted the article, and have withdrawn it from […]
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Image Description: “Trans Happiness is Real” wall hanging at the Pitt Rivers Museum. The Pitt Rivers Museum has opened a new exhibition titled ‘Beyond the Binary: Gender, Sexuality, Power’, as part of their commitment to stand as an ally with LGBTIAQ+ communities and to continue the process of opening up to new voices and perspectives. […]
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The Oxford SU has launched the “It’s not enough.” campaign, highlighting the University’s inaction on issues of race equality. This comes after Oriel College’s decision to allow the Rhodes statue to remain in place, and the University’s silence on the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. The Oxford SU is collecting student responses on […]
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Image Description: a Zoom meeting of the judging panel. Oxford student start-ups have won more than £20,000 in grants sponsored by Magdalen College and Christ Church. Eight start-ups competed for the funding, which was decided by a panel of venture capitalists. After eight weeks of workshops, training and mentorships, eight teams pitched to a panel […]
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Image description: Jeremy Corbyn and Adam Roble sitting on chairs in the Oxford Union’s chamber. Guy Dabby-Joory reports on Jeremy Corbyn’s appearance at the Oxford Union, and The Oxford Student’s subsequent interview with the former Labour leader. On the afternoon of 20th May, Jeremy Corbyn MP, the former Leader of the Opposition, came to speak […]
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Anvee Bhutani has won the SU’s by-election for the role of President for the academic year 2021-22. She was elected at Stage 11, amassing 655 votes and narrowly beating out Yannis Baur, who amassed 649 votes. The two were the top two ranked candidates throughout the 11 stages. The full election results breakdown is available […]
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Image Description: An image of the Radcliffe Camera on a cloudy day The Oxford Student has obtained previously unreleased data on undergraduate student demographics at the University of Oxford. The data is collected by the university through the Student Self Service portal as part of the student registration process in order to meet its reporting […]
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Image Description: A skyline of Oxford with the words Student Council a voting slip overlayed Oxford Student Union’s Student council held its second meeting of the term on Tuesday the 11th of May, passing a number of motions. This included a motion to remove the Sackler name from the Bodleian Libraries building, support for Covid […]
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Image Description: A building adjoining the Somerville quad Re-open nominations (RON) has been declared the winner in Somerville College’s JCR presidential election, defeating two candidates. RON won 82 votes (43%) at the first stage, with the candidates receiving 57 and 51 votes respectively. At the second stage, the second-placing candidate won 71 votes but lost […]
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As of 14th May, 12:00, campaigning for the By-Election for the SU Presidency has begun. The President is a Sabbatical Officer, who will take a year out of their studies, or after they’ve finished, for a paid full time job working for the interests of 25,000 Oxford students. The by-election comes following the resignation of […]
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With Oxford’s nightlife set to return from the 21st June onwards, here are the key events for what will be a huge couple of weeks. Don’t be put off by the number already sold out, there are still tickets up for grabs for some of the best nights, on sale now or on sale soon! […]
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