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Image Description: a picture of a silhouetted man wheeling a bike across Port Meadow on a hot day The Oxford Campaign for Climate Justice has launched a petition, and demanded that the University cut ties with the fossil fuel industry. A report, published by the campaign group today claims that the University of Oxford has received […]
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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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University College has been offered a stained glass window depicting Oscar Wilde, it was announced in a recent JCR meeting. Although Wilde is not an alumnus, his original letters and writings are housed in the library and this is the reason for the proposal. College authorities wanted the opinions of JCR students before deciding whether […]
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With the announcement of Stephen A. Schwarzman’s £150 million donation to set up a centre for the humanities to the University, Oxford’s status as a premier location for humanities scholarship has been cemented. This donation will allow for different humanities faculties to be located close to each other with shared facilities, allowing for much greater […]
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An open letter condemning the university’s decision to accept a £150 million grant from Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chair-man of multinational investment firm Blackstone, has attracted nearly a hundred signatures from numerous Oxford stakeholders. The university has accepted the do-nation in order to fund the building of a new “Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities”. […]
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Prince William’s official opening of the new Blavatnik School of Government building on 11th May has garnered wide attention in Russian media—not for the presence of the prince, but for the presence of protestors. Since late 2015, Oxford University has come under scrutiny for its decision to accept a donation of £75 million from controversial […]
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A senior Oxford police officer has urged members of the public to avoid giving money to beggars, claiming that “in many of the cases those who beg are not homeless”. Responding to an investigation published by The Oxford Student last month, Inspector Andrew Thompson stated: “With such a large number of visitors to the city […]
Continue ReadingA new report by Moody’s has found that growth in private donations to Oxford and Cambridge has outstripped that of philanthropy to universities in the United States. From 2005 to 2012, the amount raised by UK institutions more than doubled, whereas in the US it grew by less than 40 per cent. The study also […]
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