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Updated 3/11/20: Michelle Donelan MP, Minister of State for Universities has sent a letter to students, writing that “under national restrictions from 5 November, you should stay in your current home. This means you should not leave your term-time address to return to your parents’ or carer’s home until at least 2 December – and […]
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Though there is definitely a need to recognise the achievements of black people, and there is obviously nothing wrong with Black History Month in itself, there are instances when it can appear to be performative. When not accompanied by a commitment from the government to making education more representative for the other eleven months of […]
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Image description: A sprinter crouching before beginning a race. A petition signed by hundreds of students has been circulated widely following news that the University is considering plans to turn Iffley Road Sports Centre into academic spaces for the new term. The Sports Federation, in an email sent to all sports club committee members on […]
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Image description: children learning in a classroom The closure of schools disproportionately affects the working class. Starved of appropriate funding for a decade, there is no way that state schools are able to provide the level of online teaching recommended. Even if they could provide this new format it works upon the assumption that all […]
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Joe Rattue recounts his summer spent teaching on a Chinese summer camp Last January, I sat, bored and uninspired, looking through my email inbox, at a total loss as to how I should spend my summer. Somewhere between the productive internships and numerous volunteer opportunities, the Gotoco “Teaching Project in China” caught my eye. “Seems […]
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Advertisements for teaching abroad summer camps are a common sight on JCR pages in Hilary and Trinity, with China being one of the most common destinations. That’s how I ended up spending the summer vacation teaching English – I wanted to travel abroad to Asia and saw four weeks teaching in Guangzhou as a fair […]
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Over 200 academics and art professionals have penned a letter to AQA strongly criticising their decision to axe their history of art A-level from 2018. It was the last examination board to offer the subject at A-level. Chief executive of AQA, Kevin Phillips, said in a statement: “the existing specification is challenging to mark and […]
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Tradition may be everywhere in Oxford, but I spoke to one 95-year-old tutor who has seen over 65 years of change. Donald Russell, a 95 (almost 96) year-old tutor at St Johns, first came here as a classics student at Balliol in 1939 until being called up to service in World War two. After working […]
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If we learnt anything about social media in 2015, it’s to be a bit more selfie-sceptic. From hipster Barbie on Instagram to nomads posting exotic vistas, it’s time we admitted that our virtual lives are rose-tinted. So when you see the digital published life of your friends abroad, seemingly idyllic and cosmopolitan, there may be […]
Continue ReadingOxford’s admissions process has been intensely criticised in recent months by the national media for failing to admit enough students from state schools. The Social mobility and Child Poverty Commission, in a report published in December, found that although Oxford increased its intake of state educated students by 6% between 2003/04 and 2013/14, a further […]
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Inspired by his time as a Teach First teacher and seeing that the social work sector needed fresh new graduate talent just as teaching had done, Josh MacAlister decided to apply a similar model to social work. Launching in 2014, around 100 graduates started an intensive five-week induction programme in social work, followed by a year of on […]
Continue ReadingAn investigation by The Oxford Student has found huge variations in the amount colleges spend on their students. Topping our ranking is St John’s, which spent more money on the “core activities” of teaching, research and residential services than their entire income. St John’s spent 110 per cent of its income for the 2012/2013 financial […]
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