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According to reports from Thames Valley Police, 1,816 bikes were stolen last year in Oxford’s Local Police Area, or approximately five cases per day. Accounting for unreported bike thefts, the number is likely even greater. The largest number of bicycle thefts occurred in Oxford Central (734 cases), followed by Oxford East (411 cases) and Cowley […]
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Image description: Protestors outside of St John’s College on 28th May Residents of Barford, in Warwickshire, are opposing the construction of a quarry that has been proposed in their village to be built on farmland owned by St John’s College. On Tuesday, 28th May, a group of Barford residents travelled to Oxford to protest outside […]
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Fees for overseas students taking courses at Oxford are set to increase by 10.2% in the coming year (2019/2020) across more than 45 undergraduate courses, including PPE, Mathematics, Physics and History. The increase comes after the advice of a consultancy body consisting of University, college, and student nominees, which did not support the exceptional increase, […]
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The Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) has voted to boycott the appearance of Ambassador John R. Bolton at the Oxford Union. President Trump’s National Security Advisor is set to deliver a talk at the Union on 1st June. The OULC cited Bolton’s involvement in the lies spread about weapons of mass destruction leading up to […]
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A government-commissioned review has called for university tuition fees to be cut to £7,500, and for student loan repayment to be extended from 30 to 40 years. Maintenance grants to support poorer students, scrapped in 2016, should also be reinstated, the review says. The report, headed by Philip Augar, was commissioned by Theresa May to […]
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The UNWoman Oxford surrounded the Radcliffe Camera in orange ribbon for their Draw the Line campaign. The event was to symbolize solidarity against gender based violence, especially in the Oxford area. The #DrawtheLine campaign addressed the recent sexual offences against people within Oxford (“two against men and one against a woman”), and the two incidents […]
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Oxford University’s world-renowned Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) have been awarded 11 PhD studentships through the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) programme. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) offer cultural and heritage institutions the opportunity of hosting doctoral researchers based at UK universities. The scheme […]
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Oxford City Community Hospital is set to temporarily close at the end of this month due to a lack of nursing staff. The 12-bed hospital is located at the Fulbrook Centre in Headington. The community hospital is owned by the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust which issued a statement regarding the closure. An Oxford Health […]
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Ashmolean Museum had been identified as the number one attraction in the South East by REVITALISE, a national charity that provides respite holidays for disabled people and carers. A number of UK visitor attractions across the region had been surveyed and given a score on their accessibility in a Revitalise Accessible Tourism Report published today. […]
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The Sultan of Brunei has handed back an honorary degree after pressure from Oxford University regarding his country’s new anti-LGBT laws. The new laws, introduced in April worsened the already strict punishments against homosexuality in Brunei. Homosexuality was already illegal in Brunei and punishable by long prison sentences of up to 10 years. One of […]
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A recently released Student Union Welfare Representatives Report has found that college welfare representatives are regularly pushed to deal with situations they feel untrained for, with sizeable majorities finding that the position damaged their mental health and academic work. 83% of the surveyed welfare representatives have had to deal with a crisis situation which the […]
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The University has officially announced two new initiatives designed to boost the number of students from underrepresented backgrounds studying at Oxford University. Foundation Oxford, one of the newly announced programmes modelled on LMH’s Foundation Year Scheme, is aimed at promoting accessibility of Oxford to students who have previously experienced severe disadvantage, such as individuals who […]
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Oxlove, the University’s anonymous Facebook page for crush confessions, has had to relaunch as ‘New Oxlove’ following ban action from Facebook. One of the Oxlove adminstrators informed The Oxford Student that the relaunch had been forced after Facebook blocked all administrative accounts. The page was managed by fake accounts, which led Facebook to block them. […]
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New access statistics, to be released imminently by The University of Oxford, are expected to show that a record number of state school students are being admitted to Oxford and Cambridge, according to The Times. Oxford is also expected to announce that it is looking at introducing new measures to improve access for students from […]
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Last night, a tree on the Magdalen College territory fell down hindering the passage on Longwall Street. A part of the wall was also damaged. Firefighters and police were summoned as the road was closed just before 9pm for the tree to be cut and the road cleared. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service was called […]
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On Thursday the 13th of June, as part of the annual Helen & Douglas House’s ‘Jail & Bail Fundraiser’ , Anneliese Dodds MP and 8 other businesswomen will be imprisoned in the cells at Oxford Castle – a prison has an infamous history as a place of torture and execution. The 9 inmates will be […]
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The Queen’s College has appointed a presiding fellow of the Eaglets Club to its Equalities Committee as a second harassment advisor. The Eaglets is an exclusive, male-only, ‘secret’ dining society based in, but not affiliated to, The Queen’s College. In a Governing Body meeting on 23rd January 2019, the Domestic Bursar informed members that a […]
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Kaya Alexsson has been elected as the SU’s VP for Charities & Community, beating out her competitor Naomi Hirst with 599 votes to Hirst’s 380. Re-Open Nominations received 32 votes. The announcement came last night at the SU’s Charity Awards ceremony. The by-election came after no-one stood for the position back in the full SU […]
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A light and joyful evening at Corpus Christi marked the inaugural SU charity awards. Rosanna Greenwood (former VP for Charities and community), and Ben Farmer (RAG president) hosted the event, the purpose of which was to give recognition to the enormous amounts of charity work undertaken by students at the university, and to dispel the […]
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