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It was the end of 8th week Hilary: the last week of term. There is something inexplicable about the way that Oxford life – and the city itself – becomes a strange bubble during the term. Each of us gets sucked into a routine of sorts, moving from college to college, library to library, faculty […]
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Image Description: Professor Simon Marginson – a headshot A senior Oxford professor has cast doubt on the likelihood of a return to normal teaching at UK universities this autumn. He also raised concerns over whether the volume of enrolment by international students will return to normal in the next academic year. In an address to […]
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Exams are a stressful time for many, but for some Hong Kong students at Oxford, they have proved particularly difficult. Jessica, who studies at the University, told me that her friend had to take his papers whilst his relatives were embroiled in the pro-democracy protests back home. “His family members were in the front-line. They […]
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Image credit: Will Cross-Birmingham Isabella Deutsch is from Austria and is pursuing a MSc in Statistical Science at Oxford. “This all must be a bureaucratic error,” I thought to myself countless times this past summer – “Do I really belong at Oxford?” After my successful application, the allocation of my college, countless emails with my […]
Continue ReadingOUSU has made an urgent appeal for action against the Government’s new Immigration Bill. The bill plans to force landlords to check whether tenants are in the UK illegally, while banks will be made to confirm immigrants’ legal status before offering accounts. It will also charge temporary migrants – such as non-EEA students – £200 […]
Continue ReadingA candidate for OUSU International Students’ Officer has been urged to step down one day before polls close after the Returning Officer realised that she was a visiting student. Lauren McKarus, an independent running for the International Students’ Officer was asked to withdraw from the race by RO Nick Cooper after it was realised that […]
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