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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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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Image Credit: Oxford VR A team in the Department of Psychology at the University of Oxford has used new virtual reality (VR) software that aims to treat phobias. The study, led by Professor Daniel Freeman and published in The Lancet Psychiatry, used the software, called Now I Can Do Heights, to treat acrophobia (fear of […]
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Image Credit: LSE Library (Public Domain) Tim Bradshaw, head of the Russell Group, has called for a return of maintenance grants, in order that the number of students from poorer backgrounds attending university can rise. Maintenance grants were abolished for the poorest students in 2016, completing its change from a grant to a loan-based system, […]
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Image Credit: Cowles Communications, Inc. (Public Domain) Despite recognising that, due to the perceived normality of its place in our diet, the choice to eat meat goes largely unexamined, environmental researchers at Oxford University have stressed that ‘social norms can and do change’, and ought to be ‘aided by coordinated efforts of civil society, health […]
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Image Credit: David Parton (CC BY-SA 4.0) Oxford University Labour Club has released a statement calling for the whip to be withdrawn from Chris Williamson, and for him to face disciplinary actions. The statement claims that: “By saying he has ‘seen evidence of right-wing trolls, who are setting themselves up as pro-Labour, pro-Jeremy Corbyn individuals… […]
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Image Credit: Photo © Jonathan Billinger (cc-by-sa/2.0) Oxford University has been threatened with sanctions from the Government’s new higher education regulator if it fails to improve its access statistics. Oxford is among three universities in the UK, the other two being Cambridge and the Royal Northern College of Music, to have conditions placed on their registration with the […]
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Image Credit: Rama (CC BY-SA 2.0 FR) The Animal Justice Project (AJP), an animal rights organisation, is claiming that Oxford University still tests more animals than any other UK body, following the release of new Home Office figures. According to statistics from the University itself, last year it experimented on nearly quarter of a million […]
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Image Credit: Jawad Zakariya (CC BY-SA 3.0) Oxford alumnus and former international cricket star, Imran Khan, has declared victory in Pakistan’s general election, amid accusations of vote rigging by rivals. In a television address to the nation, he said: ‘We are successful and we were given a mandate.’ Khan studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at […]
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Image Credit: US Dep. of Agriculture (Public Domain) The Oxford University Greek Society has been organising a collection of products to help support the people struck by fires which have devastated Greece, and have killed at least 83 people, leaving more injured. The fires occurred near Athens, including in the seaside town of Mati, where many […]
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Image Credit: Montrealis (CC BY-SA 2.5) Georgina Beyer, the world’s first openly transsexual mayor and member of parliament, has been invited to speak at the Oxford Union. Beyer has described the invitation as “huge honour”. The former New Zealand politician was elected Mayor of Carterton, Wellington, in 1995 before becoming MP for Wairarapa in the […]
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Image Credit: Matthew Woitunski (CC-BY-SA-3.0) An email sent to students from the university of Oxford has caused outrage as it seemed to blame the generosity of students for the high levels of homelessness in Oxford. The email was sent by senior proctor Mark Edwards and junior proctor Cecile Fabre, and claimed that: “Oxford’s students have a […]
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