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Image Description: A white middle-aged man in a crowd of people. This week’s alumni is Alan Allen, an accountant from Worthing who continues to describe himself as being in his ‘mid-to-late thirties’ despite turning 40 later this year. Allen graduated from Oxford in 2002 with a perfectly acceptable 2:2 in History, and now works as […]
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The latest alumni interview is with Vashti Bunyan, who studied at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford during the 1960s. The singer-songwriter has had a decidedly unique career – disenchanted by the lack of commercial success achieved by her debut album Just Another Diamond Day after its release in 1970, Bunyan abandoned music. Over the […]
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Image Description: View of the main quad including the Porter’s Lodge and Chapel of St Peter’s College The College will introduce a new ‘pre-pay plan’ for Undergraduate freshers with a staggered roll out to other years from 2022-23 onwards. Currently, St Peter’s operates a pay-as-you-go system. Under the new plans, any unused credit would be […]
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Image Description: a headshot of Siân Berry against the backdrop of a drawing of Oxford’s skyline and the text ‘Siân Berry: Alumni Series’ This week’s alumni is Siân Berry, a former Materials Science student at Trinity College who went on to become politically active within the Green Party. Since 2018 she has been co-leader of […]
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Image Description: a headshot of Amelia Fletcher against the backdrop of a drawing of Oxford’s skyline and the text ‘Amelia Fletcher: Alumni Series’ This week’s alumni has had a double career of sorts. In one world, she is a respected economist: former chief economist at the Office of Fair Trading and now Deputy Director at […]
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Image Description: Logo of view of the Oxford Radcam and surrounding monuments reading ‘Alumni Series’ The Oxford Student profile Section is proud to announce our Oxford Alumni series! To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Oxford Student we are talking to a series of alumni as they reflect on their university days and what they’ve […]
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Alumni of Lincoln College have launched an appeal to raise £22,000 in order to relieve some of the financial pressures the College is facing after it honoured the place of all offer holders, taking in 11 additional students in this year’s cohort. The financial pressure of accommodating these students has also been worsened by the […]
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I saw that you produce music for films and documentaries, could you tell me a bit more about that, please? When I was at Oxford, I played in a student band which broke out a bit, we made a record which was played on Radio One. Most people that do film and television music seem […]
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Oxford University’s Department of Materials has come under fire from a former student, accused of sexism after an invitation for an alumni event invited “partners and wives” to attend the evening. Dr Anna Ploszajski, who left the university in 2013 and has since been named Young Engineer of the Year 2017 by the Royal Academy […]
Continue ReadingAs a long retired alumnus of Oxford, Christopher Bateman has borne witness to decades-worth of change at this university, the world of medicine and British society as a whole. After studying medicine at University College from 1955 and clinical training at St Thomas Hospital, London from 1959, Christopher qualified as a doctor in 1962. Generously […]
Continue ReadingTwenty-four people have been selected from over 100 names put forward by current and former members of the University, to have their portraits done and exhibited later this year. The criteria set for potential nominees was that they were to be living, to have a significant link to Oxford, and to be making (or, indeed, […]
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On 7 February 2017, the Department for Education announced Sir Michael Barber as the preferred candidate to become the Chair of the Office for Students, the OfS. The Office is a new public body to be established by the Higher Education and Research Bill. It seeks to combine the operations of the Higher Education Funding […]
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The Queen’s New Year’s Honours List, published on the 30th December, this year includes many who attended, or who still work at Oxford University. Of the alumni honoured, Malcolm Newsam (1973) was awarded a CBE for services to children’s social care. He serves as Children’s Social Care commissioner, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. Professor Valentine Cunningham (1963) […]
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Just when we thought the debate surrounding the statue of Cecil Rhodes couldn’t get any more controversial, it just did. On Thursday night, Oriel College announced that the infamous statue of its benefactor Cecil Rhodes was to remain in place, following an extraordinary display of narcissistic egotism from its wealthy donors. A report written […]
Continue ReadingThe Oxford drama scene in 1958 was marked by the return of graduate Peter Dews, then a director for BBC Midlands, to direct an open-air production of Henry V in the Madgalen College grounds. For the leading role he chose Patrick Garland, a first-year student at St Edmund Hall reading English. The casting of a […]
Continue ReadingIsaac Delestre and Rachael McLellan look at how employment levels vary across different degree disciplines
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