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International students will be permitted to return home over the Easter Vacation according to updated government guidance for higher education. Students will be permitted to make only one trip home over the holiday and return once in person teaching resumes, including a return journey involving overseas travel. All students returning from overseas will have to […]
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Image Description: Library windows in the evening. The Oxford group people for womxm* in philosophy have put out an open essay calling on FHS Philosophy students to consider balloting to study the Indian Philosophy paper during their final year. pwip have told the Oxford Student that they have made the open essay to fill in […]
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Image Description: A split image with car light trails on a motorway, right, and the Radcliffe Camera, left. The UK government has announced a ‘travel exemption’ for students, enabling them to “move on one occasion from their student household on or after 8th March 2021 but before 29th April 2021 to one other household for […]
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Image Description: A skyline of Oxford with the words Student Council a voting slip overlayed In its recent meeting on the 2nd March, the Oxford SU Student Council passed a number of motions, including a motion to tackle antisemitism on campus, a motion for greater transparency of overseas compulsory year abroad fees, and a motion […]
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Image Description: The roof of the Radcliffe Camera on a sunny day with purple flowers in the foreground. Somerville has announced that final year students can apply to return to Oxford from April 5th. All other students will be able to return to college on April 25th in time for the beginning of term. Students […]
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Image Description: A black and white image of All Soul’s College. The SU has announced the timeline for the election to replace the SU President-Elect, who recently resigned after online controversy. The election will take place between the 18th May and 20th May. Nominations for the position of SU President-Elect will open on the 25th […]
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Image description: The Radcliffe Camera on a sunny day The University coronavirus testing service have released their latest testing statistics for the week 20th – 26th February. Just one of the 54 tests taken was positive, giving a positivity rate of 1.9%. This means that since the start of the testing service in August, a […]
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Image Description: The front entrance of the Bodleian Library Colleges and Faculties have begun to react to the University’s announcement yesterday morning. The Balliol College Master told undergraduate students that they would be able to return for the beginning of Trinity, while other colleges including University College told students that, as stated in government guidance, students […]
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Image Description: A picture of the Park Building at Somerville College Somerville College has committed to fully divest their endowment fund from fossil fuels by July 2021. Their endowment is worth just under £100 million and will be re-invested in new green projects. On their website, Somerville College stated: “We aim to fully divest from […]
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Image description: a view over Radcliffe square In an email circulated to students today, the University has laid out an update of its plans for the remainder of the academic year, in light of recent Government announcements. This includes the confirmation of the return of some in-person teaching from 8th March. In the email, the […]
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Image Description: A picture of the top of the Radcliffe Camera. The Bodleian Libraries and Gale, a Cengage Company, have joined forces to offer three new digital humanities fellowships called The Gale Scholar Asia Pacific, Digital Humanities Oxford Fellowships program. This exciting opportunity “will allow three scholars a three-month period of research into a digital […]
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We spoke to the members of Disarm Oxford about their activism over the past couple of terms, and why there is a need for disarmament. What is Disarm Oxford and why is it important? Disarm Oxford is a new student activist group, formed in Michaelmas 2020, which aims to cut the numerous ties between […]
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Image description: a moonlit radcam and the SU logo beside it. Rashmi Samant, the President-Elect of the Oxford Student Union, has announced she is stepping down from her position following widespread criticism. This comes following a statement from the current Sabbatical Officers of the Student Union, in which they ‘sincerely apologised’ for the ‘hurt and […]
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Image description: the letters TSHA against a white background with the words Turl Street Homeless Action by the side The Oxford Student spoke to Bethan Adams, the president of Turl Street Homeless Action, about the organisation’s work in helping the rough sleeper population around Oxford. What is Turl Street Homeless Action, and why is it […]
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Image Description: A picture of the front of the Bodleian library. Rashmi Samant, who recently won her campaign for the Oxford Student Union presidency, has released an open to respond to criticism surrounding controversial statements she has made in the past. In the letter, Samant says: “Though the recent developments might make it hard […]
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Image Description: An eagle-eye view of the city centre. In the week preceding 12th February, Oxford University’s Early Alert System detected 5 positive cases from a total of 81 tests. The 7-day morning average as remained steady at around 1 case per day. Since August of last year, the Early Alert System has conducted 6,598 […]
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Image Description: NHS staff hold “Thank you!” signs. CW: homelessness, eating disorders, drug addictions, mental health, death The Access Project, Homeless Oxfordshire, Oxford Hospitals Charity, and Beat will each be receiving up to £10,000 from Oxford Raise and Give (RAG). The four beneficiaries were chosen by students during the Oxford SU Annual Elections from a […]
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Image description: the radcam viewed through a doorway The University has emailed students providing more information about exams in Trinity. Students will be able to explain mitigating circumstances to examiners if their work has been impacted by lack of in-person resources. Residency requirements will also not be in place for Trinity term. Pro-Vice-Chancellor Martin Williams […]
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Image description: The Green Oxford SU logo overlayed on a silhouette of a hand casting a vote The results of this year’s Oxford SU Sabbatical election leave Rashmi Samant as the victor of the race for the SU presidency. Samant, a graduate student reading for an MSc in energy systems at Linacre College, previously told […]
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