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Barely a day went by over the Christmas vacation when there wasn’t an Oxfess agonising over collections, asking whether they matter, what will happen if we fail, how we should prepare for them. Instead of Christmas being a time for rest and recuperation from a hectic Michaelmas, the vacation becomes a time for panic to […]
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Image credit: Will Cross-Birmingham Isabella Deutsch is from Austria and is pursuing a MSc in Statistical Science at Oxford. “This all must be a bureaucratic error,” I thought to myself countless times this past summer – “Do I really belong at Oxford?” After my successful application, the allocation of my college, countless emails with my […]
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Image Credit: Kaihsu (CC BY-SA 3.0) A recent investigation by The Guardian has revealed that accusations of bullying has been made towards hundreds of academics at top universities across the UK over the last 5 years. The paper sent freedom of information requests to different universities, revealing 294 complaints at 55 universities. Across 105 of […]
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We all chose to come to Oxford, but the real question is, why? SPCE Labs have released data from a study which aims to demonstrate which factors are the most important in a student’s choice of university. SPCE Labs used a scale out of ten to rank different factors according to the influence they had […]
Continue ReadingA recent inquest has revealed that a transgender Oxford academic at Corpus Christi died by suicide in January 2017. Erin Shepherd had just started work as a paid academic in Corpus Christi College chemistry department, having recently come out to friends and family as transgender. “The university’s statement praised Erin as an “outstanding chemist” whose death […]
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