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Lucas Bertholdi-Saad is Oxford SU’s Vice-President for Access & Academic Affairs. It seems there is an article about access to Oxford every week in the OxStu – but you don’t need the evidence from the student press to tell us that students at Oxford are passionate about access and widening participation. Students help colleges and […]
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We’re all familiar with the usual discourse surrounding Oxbridge and state school admissions – Oxford needs to tackle its access problem urgently. Andrew Adonis, Labour peer and former Transport Secretary, has recently pitched a brand-new suggestion: opening new colleges aimed solely at applicants from state school backgrounds. In January, Adonis stated in The Guardian that […]
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On Tuesday January 24th, the first Oxford SU access conference was held at Mansfield College. The aim of the Access Conference was to ask what Oxford should aim towards in the next five years, considering the role of the Oxford in the context of national targets to reduce inequality in universities. Mansfield was a fitting […]
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Several colleges in Oxford have hardship funds which are administered by members of the JCR and MCR, The Oxford Student can reveal. Class Act, the SU campaign for students who are working-class, first generation, state-comprehensive school educated or from a low-income background, ran an exploratory survey over the summer last year, which found a number […]
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Image Description: four female students from Lady Margaret Hall. Last year, the Joanna Randall MacIver junior research fellowship, which was established in the 1930s exclusively for women specialising in the humanities, was opened up to all genders. This decision was made by the senior committee of the university – the Oxford Council – in response […]
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Image credit: Wikipedia (CC-BY-2.0) The Sutton Trust recently published a report which has since made waves on social media. The report finds that eight top British schools had as many Oxbridge acceptances as another 2894 schools and colleges put together between 2015 and 2017. This has brought to light the debate on where the fault and […]
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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: Oxford PakSoc On the 11th November, Oxford’s PakSoc hosted their inaugural Access Conference in Lady Margaret Hall, which hosted around 100 students of Pakistani origin from across the UK. It was the first University Access Conference in the UK specifically for students of Pakistani origin, with the aim to encourage prospective applicants for […]
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Image Credit: Photo © Jonathan Billinger (cc-by-sa/2.0) On 6th November, Louis Richardson, Vice Chancellor at the University of Oxford, held an open discussion with students at the university about the problems surrounding access and diversity. The Q&A was organised by Ben Fernando, a postgraduate student at the university. The Vice Chancellor opened up the conversation […]
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Image Credit: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte-Description:Science Publishing Flowchart As a scientist, there is a certain allure to the idea of publishing in a journal. Taking the data you spent so long to collect and putting it through many different analyses and tests until you can confirm that the line you see on the graph is significant is […]
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Image Credit: Tejvan Pettinger (CC-BY-2.0) What do newspapers think we do all day? If you got all your information about Oxford and Cambridge from mainstream UK media, you’d be forgiven for thinking they were shadowy, elite organisations in which the main things students do are attend balls in exquisite black tie, walk down streets in academic […]
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Image credit: Manish Binukrishnan It’s nearly half a year since the Oxford published its first Annual Admissions Report, which made headlines in University and national circles for the disparities in the demographics of students admitted as undergraduates to Oxford. Less than a month after the report’s publication, a community of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic […]
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Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, appeared as a panellist during today’s event at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. The event was titled “Confronting Illiberalism: The Role of the Media, Civil Society and Universities” and included three panel discussions, one on which the focus was on how universities can face the challenges of illiberalism. […]
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Image Credit: Joe Seddon Joe Seddon is the founder and CEO of Access Oxbridge. He graduated from Mansfield College, Oxford in July 2018 with a First-Class Degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) but he comes from Morley, Yorkshire, where most of the schools are disadvantaged. The admissions statistics show that Mansfield offers 88% of […]
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Image Credit: Oxford SU Joe Inwood, Oxford SU President, has announced in a blog post that he intends to make Access the key priority campaign area for the SU this year. This decision follows what Inwood described as the “intense scrutiny” the University has been subject to regarding admissions over the past several years. The […]
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Image Credit: Wadham College/Beard A contract to create a new undergraduate centre in Parks Road, has been awarded to the construction firm Beard. This new centre will be the first dedicated access facility for welcoming prospective Oxford students. The new three-storey facility will comprise two buildings, named after Dr Lee Shau Kee and William Doo […]
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Image Credit: Duncan Hull (CC BY 2.0) A group of eleven European funding organisations which contribute annually around £5.9 billion in grants for scientists, have agreed to ensure that scientific papers written by their grantees shall be open access from the point of publication. This will be accomplished by banning their grantees from publishing in […]
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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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We are two undergraduate students studying at Hertford College, Oxford, both heavily involved in the Widening Participation sphere within and outside of the University. With one of us having been educated at a state comprehensive and the other coming from a BAME background, we were struck by the results of the Undergraduate Admissions Report and […]
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