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Image description: Looking east towards the altar from the nave of Christ Church Cathedral. TW: homophobia, queerphobia, abuse, mental health The Oxford Student has this week spoken to several LGBTQ+ students who say that they have experienced homophobia within OICCU (Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union) and two of its main student churches, St Ebbe’s and St […]
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An investigation has revealed that in 2018, Magdalen College obtained planning permission for a housing development that did not include affordable housing. The site was sold in January 2020, but the current plans are those submitted by the College. Developments of this scale usually require a certain number of ‘affordable homes’, but Magdalen was able […]
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Image description: A laptop with a webcam being covered by tape The Classics faculty have proposed that exams for students learning a classical language in Trinity Term 2020, including finalists, be conducted over video call. This includes Classics, its joint schools, CAAH, and AMH. The faculty argues that the exams, based on the translation of […]
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The Oxford Student have been informed that male security staff at the Plush Lounge, Oxford’s LGBTQ+ nightclub, have been accused of assaulting two female customers, as well as, in another incident, failing to remove reported sex attackers from the venue. Two of these claims resulted in initial police involvement, though no charges were made against […]
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The Oxford Student can report that, out of all state school offers to Oxford between 2016 and 2018 surveyed by Progress 8 (a government performance measure which examines England’s state schools), about 74% of offer holders attended state schools considered ‘markedly above average’: only 30% of schools measured fall into this category. In addition to this, […]
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An Oxford Union Access Officer, Beth Chamberlain, resigned her position on 12 July, condemning the society as “full of pseudo-politicos and sycophants” and having been left feeling “abused and taken advantage of” by colleagues and friends on committee in her letter of resignation, obtained by The Oxford Student. To read her full letter, click here. In […]
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A wide regional disparity exists between college outreach links in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, The Oxford Student can reveal. Whilst there are 20 colleges that have links to areas within London, other regions have significantly fewer college outreach programmes with just four colleges having associations with the North West. Using data from the Office of […]
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Suspension is becoming increasingly common in Oxford, having risen by 68% since 2011. Yet it continues to be an invisible side of university life and an investigation by The Oxford Student has found that there are considerable differences in the way that colleges treat suspended students. This gives lie to a commonly held assumption that […]
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One of the hard facts of Oxford life, obscure to most applicants but quickly apparent to newly-arrived freshers, is that some colleges are simply wealthier than others. Not all are fortunate enough to enjoy an unconditional academic grant of up to £344 at St. John’s for spending on anything from books to an iPad. Inequalities […]
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The stereotypical image of the workshy Humanities student is well-established in Oxford culture. The regimen of self-supervised library sessions and weekly essays, it is often assumed, must be conducive to a relaxed schedule of late night revelry and late morning lie-ins. For at least one BA degree, an investigation by The Oxford Student gives the […]
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Image Credit: Tom Gould. Description: St Cross College. Please note that this article contains explicit discussion of transphobic statements and images. Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College Michael Biggs has been posting transphobic statements online under the Twitter handle @MrHenryWimbush, The Oxford Student can reveal. The Twitter account, named Henry Wimbush and […]
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Image credit: Durova A recent study by Swansea University has revealed that “one in seven” students have paid someone else to write an assignment for them via an essay mill. Worldwide, this could represent over 31 million people. However, in a recent survey conducted by The Oxford Student Investigations team it was revealed that out of […]
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On 6th February this year, Britain celebrated a landmark anniversary. The day marked one hundred years since the first women in this country were granted the vote; full female suffrage was achieved ten years later in 1928. This centenary year is an opportunity for reflection on what has changed since then. While there is much […]
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Mental health is rapidly climbing up the agenda of university authorities across the UK with five times as many students reporting mental health issues as ten years ago. A study published in September last year by the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) revealed that more than 15 000 UK-based first-year undergraduates disclosed mental health […]
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On 3rd May, we will head to the polls to vote in local elections across the country. This is the first England-wide test of electoral opinion since last year’s General Election. Over 150 different local councils have seats up for grabs in a mixture of metropolitan, unitary and district councils. Local elections provide a chance […]
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It’s a normal Wednesday evening and I’m eating a meal with friends. “Are you coming out tonight?” one of them asks between mouthfuls. Unable to remember if we had discussed going out that evening, I shrug my shoulders, confused. “Oh it’s the quiz down the bar, remember?” I shake my head. I don’t. “There was […]
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What happens after we die is one of the biggest and difficult questions that any philosopher could contend with. For societies, however, it is a lot more straightforward. Their effects, on the whole, end up in impassive blue boxes in the John Johnson Collection of the Bodleian Library. Within these boxes lie their final traces, […]
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Four minutes. As the warning sirens begin to peal, that is the time left before a nuclear strike. A three-megaton nuclear warhead, aimed at RAF Brize Norton, is soon to detonate, wiping Witney, along with many other towns and villages away in a matter of moments. While you may take some small solace in the […]
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Created in 1980, Oxford Friend is a voluntary organisation which runs a helpline for LGBTQ+ people in Oxford. Back then, according to one of its most long-serving volunteers, things were a lot worse than they are today. We’re also better off now than we were in 2000, when a church in the city centre told […]
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