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Image Credit: Diliff Three Oxford students have been recognised at the inaugural Student Social Mobility Awards. The Awards, hosted by social mobility charity upReach at the House of Lords, showcased the outstanding achievements of students from less-advantaged backgrounds. 22 undergraduates were presented with awards, including Renée Kapuku (Keble College and previous president of Oxford University […]
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The universities of Oxford and Cambridge have pledged to improve the experience of students studying without family support. Among the commitments, the University of Oxford has announced it will provide a non-repayable bursary of up to £7,200 pa to pay for vacation accommodation, with other students where possible, and unlimited access to counselling services. The […]
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Image credit: Cmglee. Description: the Westminster School, London, the students of which get 70-80 Oxbridge places per year. Eight top schools have as many Oxbridge admissions as the next 2894 UK schools combined, according to a new report by the Sutton Trust. The Trust suggests that little has changed regarding access to opportunity at Oxbridge […]
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Image credit: Geograph – N Chadwick The University of Oxford has today publicised plans for a new graduate college, located centrally within the town. Its intake will comprise largely of students from the Mathematics, Physics and Life Sciences departments, with some provision for other subjects. According to the official announcement, the college will provide particular space […]
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Image Credit: Steve Daniels Oxford University researchers have recently pioneered a new technique in the fight against cancer. They utilised a virus, called enadenotucirev, which was developed to fight carcinoma; cancer of the epithelial cells of the skin and organ lining. The treatment’s innovation was to allow the virus to target not just the cancer […]
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Oxford University has announced that the Tinbergen building is to be demolished and replaced with new state-of-the-art facilities. Tinbergen was abandoned in February 2017 after absestos was discovered in the building and has been empty ever since. The new centre will house the Departments of Experimental Psychology, Plant Sciences and Zoology which were once hosted […]
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Picture Credit: Jeremiah Vandermeer (CC BY 2.0) A gift made to the University by artificial intelligence company DeepMind has seen the creation of new graduate scholarships for computer science courses. On a statement on the University’s website, it was announced that: “the donation will be used by Oxford to launch a new scholarship programme to support […]
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Image Credits: James Ashworth Around 60 Oxford students today took part in a sexual consent protest on Cornmarket Street, highlighting the recent case of Irish lawyer Elizabeth O’Connell using a girl’s underwear as part of her closing statement, after which the accused was found not guilty. The protesters hung a line of lacey underwear, like […]
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Image Credit: Oxford SU Monday 19th November saw the Oxford Student’s Union host its first leadership event aimed at BAME students. Held at Merton College from 5:30-9pm, attendees were witness to a range of talks focusing on four key topics: being the only BAME person in the room; managing conflict; being a student leader; and […]
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Image Credit: Tom Gould Oxford Union President Stephen Horvath’s decision to host former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon on Friday of 6th week has continued to cause fallout within the society and across the University. Last week, The Oxford Student reported on the heated Emergency Meeting called by Union Secretary Nick Brown, in which […]
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Image Credit: OUCA/OULC/OULD Facebook The Oxford University Labour Club has refused involvement in the Three Parties Debate, a termly debate between the Oxford University Conservative Association, the Oxford University Liberal Democrats and the Oxford University Labour Club, the three main political societies in Oxford University. The event took place this Monday, and promised to attract […]
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In a meeting of the Oxford Union Standing Committee on Monday 7th week, President Stephen Horvath opposed attempts to discuss his conduct surrounding the Steve Bannon talk on the grounds that the proposed agenda was invalid. Five members of Standing Committee tried to raise the business but as each spoke President Horvath and Treasurer James […]
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Image Credit: James Ashworth On Monday 12th November, members of University staff have taken part in a cake sale and “unpaid women’s non-working lunch” to raise awareness of the gender pay gap at Oxford University The local branch of the University and College Union (UCU) organised the stall outside the Clarendon building, at the corner […]
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Image Credit: Barker Evans In a tense meeting of the Oxford Union Standing Committee, the President narrowly avoided being directed to disinvite Steve Bannon from speaking at the Union, with 6 votes in favour and 7 against. As previously reported by The Oxford Student, the Secretary, Nick Brown, requested an emergency vote regarding the invitation of Steve Bannon to […]
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Image Credit: Don Irvine Following the announcement that former chief Strategist to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is to speak at the Oxford Union on Friday 16th November, the Secretary of the Union, Nick Brown, has called for an emergency meeting of the standing committee. The formal letter of requisition, as seen by The Oxford […]
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Image Credit: Gage Skidmore Former Chief Strategist to President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is to speak at the Oxford Union on Friday 16th November. Bannon served in the U.S. Navy, before becoming an investment banker and an executive producer in Hollywood. In 2007 he co-founded Breitbar News which has been associated with elements of the […]
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Image Credit: Geni Twenty-five refugees living in Oxford have been taken on as tour guides by Pitt Rivers Museum and the Museum of the History of Science in a new project to forge cultural links between the Museum and the local community. The majority of the new tour guides came from Syria, however among the […]
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Image Credit: jarmoluk Difficulties have plagued the opening of the Oxford University Chemistry Department’s new teaching labs which were supposed to be fully functional by the time students arrived at the beginning of Michaelmas. These problems include the late delivery of the building in addition to a “small fire and break-in”, The Oxford Student can […]
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Image Credit: Tom Gould Students have been responding to the reaction from the sociology department at the University following a series of transphobic tweets were revealed by The Oxford Student. The head of the sociology department sent an email to students saying that, whilst they could not comment on the specific allegation, they “would like […]
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