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International students will be permitted to return home over the Easter Vacation according to updated government guidance for higher education. Students will be permitted to make only one trip home over the holiday and return once in person teaching resumes, including a return journey involving overseas travel. All students returning from overseas will have to […]
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The Oxford SU Student Council have held their 1st Week Council meeting for Hilary 2021. The Student Council, the legislative assembly of the Student Union, represents more than 20,000 students at the university. The Council convenes 12 times a year, once every two weeks in term time. At this meeting, a number of motions were […]
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Students are struggling to comprehend and comply with ever-changing travel guidance while trying to see their families over the Christmas holidays. In light of the news of a travel window for UK students to return home for Christmas, how are international students affected, and has enough thought been given to help people spend time with […]
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Jesus College was criticised for its policy regarding quarantine arrangements for students returning from international destinations at the start of next term, and has since provided more detail and guidance. On the 11th November, Jesus sent an email to students, indicating that their “preferred option” was that students returning from abroad discuss their situation with […]
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On Wednesday 11th November, the Government told universities to allocate departure dates during a “student travel window” between 3rd and 9th December, with a mass-testing programme rolling out between 30th November and 6th December, in order to minimise the risk of students spreading Covid-19 to other parts of the country. Universities Minister Michelle Donelan, speaking […]
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Image description: Student on New Inn Hall Street with sticky notes reading: “send beer; corona is here”, “it’s his fault” (with an arrow pointing to the window above), and “patient zero” Recent news that students may face a two-week lockdown before being allowed to return home is typical of this government. It demonstrates a failure […]
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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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