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The Oxford Kayak Tours has discontinued its partnership over claims that Steve Bannon was not sufficiently challenged at his talk which was held by The Oxford Union last term. The event, which happened on the 16th of November suffered controversies as protests were held outside of the Union buildings, and calls were made for a […]
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Cellar, one of Oxford’s most popular music venues, has taken an important step to securing its future. The venue won permission from Oxford County Council to build a new fire escape further along Cornmarket Street, thereby meeting all the its legal obligations. The club had previously been under threat as safety inspectors found its fire […]
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Oxford’s only LGBTQ club, the Plush Lounge, has announced it will be delaying its expected change of venue to the end of January 2019. Plush had announced it would be terminating its long-held lease at the Jam Factory building on Park End Street in October, with a move to the venue then-occupied by Purple Turtle […]
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Three Oxford students have been recognised at the inaugural Student Social Mobility Awards. The Awards, hosted by social mobility charity upReach at the House of Lords, showcased the outstanding achievements of students from less-advantaged backgrounds. 22 undergraduates were presented with awards, including Renée Kapuku (Keble College), former president of Oxford University African and Carribean Society, […]
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Image credit: Wikipedia (CC-BY-2.0) The Sutton Trust recently published a report which has since made waves on social media. The report finds that eight top British schools had as many Oxbridge acceptances as another 2894 schools and colleges put together between 2015 and 2017. This has brought to light the debate on where the fault and […]
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Image credit: Cmglee. Description: the Westminster School, London, the students of which get 70-80 Oxbridge places per year. Eight top schools have as many Oxbridge admissions as the next 2894 UK schools combined, according to a new report by the Sutton Trust. The Trust suggests that little has changed regarding access to opportunity at Oxbridge […]
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Image credit: Wikipedia (DFID) In August last year, 20,000 Rohingya Muslims were forced to flee Rahkine State, a western province in Myanmar. By October 2017, the United Nations estimated that 600,000 Rohingya had fled Myanmar. At the time, the United Nations and Amnesty International called the mass exodus of the Rohingya minority a “textbook example […]
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Image Credit: Godot13 (CC BY-SA 4.0) Members of Brasenose JCR moved to officially declare war against Wadham College this week, following building animosity over the college’s shock Veggie Pledge win. The JCR noted that “the real treasure was not the victory, but the enemies we made along the way”, and “we haven’t had a good […]
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Image Credit: Flikr (CC-BY-SA-2.0) Just before midnight on 18th October, Labour’s Damian Haywood was duly elected Oxfordshire County Councillor for Iffley Fields & St Mary’s after a tight contest with the Green candidate David Williams. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Labour Councillor Helen Evans, who gained the district from the Greens in […]
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Image Credit: Steve Daniels (CC BY-SA 2.0) Friday 19th October will see the launch the 1001 Stories Quest, a project aimed at collecting 1001 of the world’s greatest stories. The project costs £6 million and aims at creating 10 new spaces, including the Enchanted Library, Whispering Wood and Treasure Chamber, which will be open for […]
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Image Credit: Oxford University Using the UK’s Biobank data, which includes genetic information and detailed brain images, scientists at the University of Oxford have reported finding new insights into the structure and functioning of the brain. The UK Biobank resource contains some 10,000 magnetic resonance images (MRIs) of brains scans from patients in the UK […]
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Image Credit: Pixabay This week a violent attack in Christ Church’s war memorial gardens resulted in one man been taken to hospital. The man of approximately 50 years old, was reportedly attacked and robbed of his money and some various jewellery items on Wednesday evening last week at approximately 6pm. The attackers inflicted cut wounds […]
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Image Credit: Department of Earth Sciences Professor Philip England, a former fellow of University College has received the 2018 American Geophysical Union Walter H Buchner Medal. The award recognises Professor England, who is also the Chair of Geology at the University, for his original contributions to the basic knowledge of the crust and lithosphere. At […]
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Image Credit: Oxbridge Must Fall Anyone strolling around town with a keen eye last week may have noticed the latest poster campaign to occupy Oxford’s signposts and blank spaces. Signs and stickers have filled the city, declaring that “Oxbridge Must Fall”. The Oxford Student obtained an interview with the anonymous organisers behind the campaign, who […]
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Image Credit: Fittoprint (CC BY-SA 1.0) Criticisms of St Hugh’s College accommodation have come to the fore after a number of complaints, including rats and broken washing facilities. Rhiannon Davies, a second year student studying Maths, had previously complained about the sound of scrabbling in her room in the Wolfson Building to the college. After […]
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Image Credit: ceridwen (CC BY-SA 2.0) Oxford University Hospitals NHS, which runs the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals in Oxford, has lost more than £2.5 million this year as a consequence of thousands of patients not turning up to their appointments. According to data released by NHS England, between January and June of this year, […]
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On October 27th, from 8 to 11 pm, something wunderbar is happening: the German Society are hosting an Oktoberfest celebration. For those of you unfamiliar with this Bavarian bacchanalia, it began as a celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig in 1810, before quickly degenerating into an annual celebration of beer in Munich, beginning […]
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Image Credit: Pilot Boy Productions (CC BY-SA 4.0) This Friday at 2pm, Dave Chappelle and Jon Stewart will be speaking at the Oxford Union after their recent joint tour. Chappelle, the American comedian popularised by Chappelle’s Show, has recently received a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. Earlier this year, his comedy special Equanimity, produced in […]
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Image Credit: Epic Games via Polygon Duncan Jones, the director behind Warcraft and Moon, will be bringing Rogue Trooper, one of the 2000 AD properties of Oxford-based comics publishers Rebellion, to the big screen. The director sparked intense fan speculation last week by teasing that his next film would be based on a mystery comic book […]
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