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A nineteenth-century professor of Chinese has been honoured with the unveiling of a blue plaque on the wall of his former residence in North Oxford. James Legge, a prominent Scottish sinologist and missionary, lived at 3 Keble Road from 1875 until his death in 1897. In 1876, a year after his arrival in Oxford, Legge […]
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The Oxford SU LGBTQ+ campaign has issued an official statement in anticipation of Brendan O’Neill’s visit to the Queen’s College tonight. It follows the organisation of a protest, scheduled for tonight at 6:30, against the decision to invite O’Neill to address an Addison Society dinner at the college. The statement, which has been signed by […]
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A demonstration will be held tomorrow in protest against the invitation of political columnist Brendan O’Neill to speak at a dinner at Queen’s College. The decision to invite O’Neill to address a dinner tomorrow has been defended by the Addison Society, which has organised the event. The student-run society regularly invites prominent figures to college […]
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Dr David Prout, Oxford University Pro-Vice Chancellor for Planning and Resources, on Thursday defended the university’s decision to raise graduate rent by 5.8% at an open meeting at Oxford SU. He was joined by Sarah Davies, the university’s Head of Finance, and Katie Scheinkonig, Head of Residential Accommodation. Together the trio stressed the importance of […]
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On 3rd May, we will head to the polls to vote in local elections across the country. This is the first England-wide test of electoral opinion since last year’s General Election. Over 150 different local councils have seats up for grabs in a mixture of metropolitan, unitary and district councils. Local elections provide a chance […]
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It’s a normal Wednesday evening and I’m eating a meal with friends. “Are you coming out tonight?” one of them asks between mouthfuls. Unable to remember if we had discussed going out that evening, I shrug my shoulders, confused. “Oh it’s the quiz down the bar, remember?” I shake my head. I don’t. “There was […]
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The governing body of St Hugh’s College has launched an independent enquiry into allegations of misconduct and sexual harassment by a now-deceased fellow. Mel McGrath, a student of PPE at the college in the 1980s, accused her personal tutor Professor David Robertson of “doing a Weinstein on me” in a piece for website ‘The Pool’. […]
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Students who have taken out tuition fee loans to cover the cost of university studies will now be able to earn more before having to begin repaying them. This latest decision will affect all English and Welsh students who have taken out loans for university fees since the yearly cost of higher education rose to […]
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Lady Margaret Hall has replaced portraits of male Oxford dons with prominent female alumni in a drive to end the “monopoly of portraits of men”. Nigella Lawson, celebrity chef and food writer who graduated Oxford with a degree in modern and medieval languages, is one LMH alumna whose portrait is being showcased at the college. […]
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Oxford University has been placed fourth from the bottom of a new league table which measures how successful universities have been in increasing participation from students of all backgrounds. Cambridge University came last in the experimental “fair access” rankings, which were drawn up in a paper by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi). Also in […]
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It might come as a shock that three out of every four British companies and public entities pay male staff more, on average, than they pay female workers. But then again, it might not. With the arrival of the April 4th deadline for British companies to disclose gender pay gap figures, a familiar story unravels, […]
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Today, April 3rd, has been called “Punish a Muslim Day” following a campaign inciting hate and violence towards Muslims. Letters and flyers had been posted to Muslim households in major cities across the UK telling them that April 3rd was to be ‘Punish a Muslim Day’; an event where people hoped to score points by […]
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Annihilation, the second film by writer/director Alex Garland, is one of the boldest, most uncompromising science-fiction films of recent years. Based on the novel by Jeff VanderMeer, the “King of Weird Fiction” according to The New Yorker, it was ultimately consigned to a Netflix-only release in the UK by Paramount due to concerns that it […]
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On the 28TH March, the University announced its ‘BREXIT Strategy for Research’, which explains how it will work to mitigate any risks associated with Brexit. The outcomes that Oxford hopes for have remained “unchanged”. These include being able to maintain world-class collaborative research with EU colleagues, to continue to host European Research Council grants, and […]
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Colleagues, friends, family and fans lined the streets of Cambridge yesterday to pay their respects to the world famous physicist Stephen Hawking, who sadly passed away two weeks ago. He had been an undergraduate at University College, Oxford, graduating with a first class degree in Natural Sciences in 1962. Professor Hawking had long struggled with […]
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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 […]
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The Varsity Match and the Rugby Football Union (RFU) have today agreed a new four-year deal that will see the annual Rugby Varsity Matches between Oxford and Cambridge continue to be hosted at Twickenham, the Home of England Rugby, until 2021. This deal comes ahead of the 100th Anniversary Varsity Match at Twickenham, and is […]
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The Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) has voiced disappointment in Jeremy Corbyn’s apology earlier this week after accusations of anti-Semitism and voiced “solidarity with Jewish Labour members who are calling for greater action to root out antisemitism” in the Labour Party. Other university Labour Clubs have voiced similar sentiments. The Cambridge Universities Labour Club (CULC) called on […]
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Sometimes, I feel like feminism has not fully completed its role – or even worse, that it has barely touched some areas. Despite the fact that sexuality has become less of a taboo than it used to be, I think that there has been much less progress when it comes to women. Young women still […]
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