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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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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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Oxford University’s Multaka-Oxford project, which provides volunteering opportunities for forced migrants at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum and History of Science Museum, has been presented with Volunteer Team of the Year at the Museum and Heritage Awards. The annual awards, which were announced on Wednesday 15 May aim to celebrate innovative and ground-breaking initiatives from the […]
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Oxford SU Council delegates voted to approve a ban on electoral slates in Student Union elections at their meeting in Mansfield College on Wednesday. The motion to change the SU’s rules was proposed by VP Welfare and Equal Opportunities Ellie MacDonald and seconded by President-Elect Anisha Faruk. Ms Faruk opened the debate in favour of […]
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The Oxford Union has passed a rules change that will allow students of Oxford Brookes University to buy permanent Union membership if their course lasts 3 years or more. Previously, only temporary membership was available to Brooke’s students, meaning that unlike University of Oxford students, they had no option for lifetime membership beyond the end […]
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Vegetarian and vegan members of Oxford University are being invited to rank colleges according to the quality of their veggie food. The initiative, based on the well-known Norrington Table for ranking colleges according to their examination results, is being pioneered by the Oxford University Animal Ethics Society, which was founded in 2007 with the aim […]
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Protestors yesterday gathered outside the Oxford Union to demonstrate against the invitation of far-right media personality Katie Hopkins. A heavy police presence surrounded the area, including several mounted officers. At least one arrest was made after an altercation between a protestor and a counter-protestor who was seen performing a Nazi salute. Chants from the protestors […]
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The Wilberforce Club hosted an Alien themed drinks event in St Giles’ Church on 10th May in honour of the Oxford academic Dr Young-hae Chi, who has joined the society as a Senior Member. Dr Chi is an instructor in Korean at Oxford’s Oriental Institute who has spoken and written about the presence of invisible […]
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At a signing ceremony this week, Santander UK and Oxford entered into a new three-year partnership in which Santander will provide funding of scholarships, travel awards, internship programs, and entrepreneurial ventures. Present at the ceremony was Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor Professor Louise Richardson and the CEO of Santander UK, Nathan Bostock. Santander UK pledged over 1M to […]
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Oxford’s Said’s business school have stopped their ads from appearing on fake news websites. The school was contacted by the organisation Stop Funding Fake News, and were alerted that their adverts were appearing on sites that proliferate extremist or inflammatory content online. Stop Funding Fake News is a small organisation run by activists who have […]
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A new charity has been established by Oxford students with the aim of distributing books to the city’s homeless. The non-proft organisation Homeless Oxford Literature Drive (HOLD) was set up last month by Hamza Rana, Alex Haveron-Jones and Martha Davies, all from Somerville College. This term, HOLD have launched their first book drive where they are […]
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A new campaign has been launched to boycott the Oxford Union following its decision to invite figures described by the campaign as ‘fascist and racist’. Triggered in particular by the announcement of Katie Hopkins as a speaker for Trinity 2019, the campaign asks students to pledge not to attend Union events and has created an […]
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The Pitt Rivers Museum has been shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2019, considered to be the most prestigious museum prize in the world. The prize is awarded annually to a museum or gallery in the UK for a “track record of imagination, innovation and excellence”. The winning museum will receive £100,000 in […]
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