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Image description: Elon Musk smiling Elon Musk is perhaps the only billionaire with an actual fanbase–his Twitter features high engagement from fans of Musk’s supposed scientific and technological contributions as well his business prowess. This fanbase was as active as ever when Elon Musk made headlines again this Halloween for dangling the prospect of donating […]
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Image description: Two surgical masks on a white background On 21st May, Pfizer and BioNTech announced their pledge to provide COVID-19 vaccines to developing countries: to deliver one billion doses this year and another one billion in 2022. This is a promising step towards bridging the inequality gap between the so-called developing and developed world […]
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Imposter syndrome is an idea spoken about a lot in Oxford, especially during the start of the academic year. It’s the feeling that you don’t quite belong here – that your offer was a result of a mistake and someone else should have been accepted instead. Imposter syndrome is not unique to Oxford, but the […]
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The World Economic Forum, held every year in Davos, Switzerland, usually passes without much notice as the world’s economic and political establishment goes about mingling together about how impactful their philanthropy really is and exactly how committed they are to “improving the state of the world” one of their many self-aggrandising mottoes. However, this year […]
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The British railways have come to be one of the most blatantly obvious examples of where privatisation has failed. Commuters and tax payers are being ripped off by dividend collectors, while services deteriorate, prices climb much faster than wages, and incompetent Conservative ministers like Chris Grayling fumble around a problem they have no desire to […]
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If at first you don’t succeed, ask Daddy to pay for you to take easier exams. At least, this has been the case for several GCSE students at independent schools which are opting to take the easier IGCSEs over the more rigorous and difficult GCSEs which have been introduced during the Conservative government’s latest round […]
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Ever feel like everyone at Oxford is from London? Or at least say they’re from London so as not to confuse clueless northerners with alien territories such as ‘High Wycombe’, ‘Crawley’, or the most fabled of them all – ‘Guildford’. Well, truth is, that’s because they kind of are. Taking the almost unanimously stretched definition of ‘London’ as meaning all of Greater London and the Southeast, […]
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No reasonable person views the recent scandal over pay as raising issues limited to the BBC. Whilst the right-wing tabloids seized upon the opportunity to savage what they deem to be an instrument of the liberal elite, others contemplated a more interesting talking point: how does the just society allocate its resources? This question, at the heart of much contemporary political debate, was just one of those to which Harvard philosopher John […]
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A couple of weeks ago, David Cameron bought a shed for £25,000. A luxury shed. Apparently, it’s so he can write his memoirs in peace, away from his rowdy wife and kids. But just in case he still has the receipt, I thought I’d set out an alternative long term economic plan for him. Huskies. […]
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‘Corbyn launches anti-grammar schools campaign’, says the headline on schoolsweek.co.uk, back in September. ‘The newly re-elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will launch a national campaign against plans to open new grammar schools in England’, says the subheading. To any proponent of social equality, the Labour Party’s opposition to Theresa May’s grammar schools policy at first […]
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When shopping, it can be easy to forget that amongst global industries, the fashion industry ranks as the second most environmentally polluting and also as one of the largest operators of child and slave labor. For this reason, I try to say that I “only shop ethically,” but sometimes, my resolve crumbles as soon as […]
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New research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Cambridge University, the Institute of Education and Harvard University has found that graduates from wealthy families “earn significantly more” in their careers than their less-well off counterparts, even if they study the same course at the same university. The study, based on 260,000 graduates in England, has […]
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Oxford falls within the bottom 20% of Local Authorities in terms of social mobility, a study released by the Government shows. The Social Mobility and Child Poverty commission have completed what it calls the first analysis of social mobility across England at local level. The report has highlighted some trends which run counter to […]
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According to Oxford charity Oxfam, global inequality is rapidly increasing. The top 1% now own more than the rest of humanity combined. The richest 62 individuals are even as wealthy as the poorest 3.6 billion people. In light of that development, the NGO stresses the importance of legislating equitable taxation, increasing minimum wages, pursuing women’s […]
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A study conducted by Oxford University’s Careers Service has reported a significant ‘gender gap’ in the employment of university graduates six months after leaving.
Continue ReadingConcerns have been raised that adverse weather conditions could unfairly magnify financial disparities between college boat clubs in the run-up to Torpids. Rowers from around Oxford have highlighted the fact that flooding and heavy rain has affected available training hours for the less wealthy boat clubs. The Isis section of the Thames that flows through […]
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The results of an Oxford Student investigation into tutorial contact hours have revealed large gaps in the tuition time provided for humanities students across colleges. While the University admissions website claims that “all Oxford colleges have the same high academic standards”, the results of this investigation suggest significant differences in the quantity of teaching provision. […]
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