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The University of Oxford has confirmed that all admissions interviews will not take place in person this December. The Oxford Student originally uncovered this news in a leaked video from the Biochemistry Department, and it has since been confirmed by the University. The video was uploaded 11 days ago to Panopto, the software used for […]
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Image Description: A street view in Berlin In March almost all third-year linguists were forced to return home and had their year abroad cut short. These stories depict the unique challenges that those on their year abroad have faced in the last months and the disappointment of having to continue a year abroad in the […]
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Image Description: A medical syringe stuck into a model of a virus on a blue background. The COVID-19 vaccine, developed by researchers at the University of Oxford, has been called the “leading candidate” according to the World Health Organisation’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan, as it undergoes large-scale, mid-stage human trials. At a news conference on […]
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Image description: students in Oxford University Martin Williams, the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education), sent an email to students which outlines Oxford University’s developing plans for the academic year of 2020/21, including a commitment to face to face, small-group teaching. The email was received by current students this morning (the 17th of June), with a similar email sent […]
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There are over two billion keyboards in the world. They are one of the most used objects in daily life. Yet the trillions of words written every day are largely conveyed through dull, black, plastic varieties that proliferate offices everywhere. The average person will spend five years of their life typing – more than they […]
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Image description: students in subfusc standing outside the Radcliffe Camera Following the announcements about the plans for the next academic year from Cambridge and others, it is safe to assume that some kind of social distancing will need to be enforced in Michaelmas term. There was even a nod to this in the most recent […]
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Image description: children learning in a classroom The closure of schools disproportionately affects the working class. Starved of appropriate funding for a decade, there is no way that state schools are able to provide the level of online teaching recommended. Even if they could provide this new format it works upon the assumption that all […]
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Photo description: an AIDS awareness mural by Keith Haring in Barcelona The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a proliferation of medical trials seeking to treat and eventually cure the virus, one of which is the convalescent plasma trial. Scientists hope that, by recruiting volunteers who have had coronavirus, they will be able to develop a […]
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As a child, I used to think I could control traffic lights with my eyes. The logic was if I squinted hard enough the little red man would turn into a little green one. I would think I was special, but my mother would just think I had hay fever. I stopped believing this in […]
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COVID-19 poses a unique challenge to the lives of all people, but the effect on each individual is not the same. Cohorts with existing vulnerabilities are affected by the symptoms of the disease, but perhaps more so by the measures put in place to ‘stop the spread’ and ‘flatten the curve’. Rough sleepers, people in […]
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I’ve always found the left-wing/right-wing distinction overly reductive. It seems absurd to me to map out an outstandingly wide-ranging set of policies across a one-dimensional axis. How can my views on education, health, foreign policy, ontology and ethics be captured in one category? The corona crisis has made this all the more evident. The unprecedented […]
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Every Thursday at 8pm millions of people take to their front doors to ‘clap for our carers’ and other key workers in an act of symbolism, an act that is supposed to demonstrate the nation’s appreciation of the 7.1 million key workers that are keeping Britain running during the Covid-19 crisis. Although we are ‘not […]
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Image description: Abi Owen, author, holds a bow and arrow I remember leaving Oxford with elbow-bumps, laughing and joking and shouting “see you in October”. I remember going home on the train, using hand sanitiser while trying to sit as far away from people as possible. I remember watching videos of people in quarantine in […]
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Britain has a problem with immigration, but probably not the one we are led to believe. The current emergency has thrown a spotlight onto the misguided rhetoric and contradictory policies and attitudes concerning the movement of people into and out of the UK. Unfortunately, it is unlikely to change attitudes to immigration in the future. […]
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As Oxford term kicks in, there is no denying that us students must get back into some kind of routine. For most, the past few weeks have been anything but normal. According to the World Economic Forum 2.6 billion people worldwide were living under lockdown in early April. Where measures have been strictly implemented, the […]
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Historians, cultural commentators, and sociologists have long wrangled over the extent of secularisation in our society. Does yoga count as a religion? Is listening to Songs of Praise the same as attending church? In reading your horoscope, are you engaging in a new spiritualistic society? Are ‘new age movements’ hippy-dippy rubbish, or truly meaningful? And, […]
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Image description: a bathroom sign with a ‘man’ figure and ‘woman’ figure on it. As coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, almost all countries are seeing an interesting risk factor emerging – being male. Many people like to joke that men complain more than women about the same illnesses, but this time the data […]
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Image description: Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp, speaking at an event Exiting the Rad Cam for the last time, I found myself lost for words as I passed the librarian behind the counter. After a moment’s hesitation, I uttered a sombre “good luck.” What else could I say? It is not remotely usual […]
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Worcester JCR announced that they are providing all of its members with free access to the meditation and mindfulness app, Headspace. JCR members will be able to freely access the service by logging on with their Worcester email address, with JCR Vice President and Treasurer, Damon Falck, praising the service as helping provide “a little […]
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