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Image Description: Candlelit vigil “Pour Paris” honouring the victims of the 2015 Paris attacks As part of the Sexual Violence and Sexual Abuse Awareness Week, Oluwakemi Agunbiade (Kemi for short), a second year law student at Wadham College, has organised a candlelit vigil. It is to take place on Saturday February 8th at 8pm outside […]

Professor Paul Ewart, former head of atomic and laser physics at the University, is the latest academic to challenge the institution’s compulsory retirement age policy.  The Employer Justified Retirement Age policy (EJRA), which currently requires academic staff to retire after their 68th birthday, was adopted by Oxford University in 2011 to foster diversity and career […]

Brasenose has taken first place in the 2019 Planet Pledge, with Hertford and New College coming second and third respectively. Pledging has been taking place on Facebook since 15th November, with 1,346 pledges being made in total. This campaign has taken over from the former Veggie Pledge campaign, recognising that some people may not be […]

The student-based campaign group ‘Oxford Worker Justice’, which seeks to build solidarity between university workers and students, has launched an ‘Oxford Living Wage Campaign’. The movement is made up of students, staff and members of the local community who want to secure a Living Wage for employees of the University of Oxford. In their campaign, […]

At an Oxford SU student council meeting on Wednesday 13th November, students voted to support the UCU strikes. Oxford SU sent an email to students saying: “As of the Student Council meeting this evening, Oxford SU’s official policy is to support the cause and organisation of the strike action. “We encourage our members to respect the […]

People for Womxn in Philosophy have compiled an alternative general philosophy reading list in response to the incredibly male-dominated standard reading list the syllabus supplies for the subject. They released the reading list, which was collated throughout last year, on their blog last Friday. The reading list is aimed at first years, and is seen […]

A recent petition has reached nearly 800 signatures in several days to scrap the fee for Postgraduate applications here at Oxford. Currently, prospective students must pay £75 to apply, where fee waivers can only be granted in specific circumstances. Cambridge also charges per application, but at £60 instead, setting both universities apart as the only […]

Oxford University Turkish Society has joined 21 other Turkish student societies in the UK from Universities across the country in releasing an open letter in support of the Turkish invasion of Kurdish-controlled north-eastern Syria, citing a need to address the issue following “vehement attacks on Turkey by certain student groups”. Last week Turkey began a […]

An Oxford Union Access Officer, Beth Chamberlain, resigned her position on 12 July, condemning the society as “full of pseudo-politicos and sycophants” and having been left feeling “abused and taken advantage of” by colleagues and friends on committee in her letter of resignation, obtained by The Oxford Student. To read her full letter, click here. In […]

Oxford University Labour Club has released a statement condemning the decision of Labour’s National Executive Committee to reinstate Chris Williamson as a member of the party. The Derby North MP was suspended from Labour in February this year, following the publication of footage of him saying Labour had been “too apologetic” regarding allegations of anti-Semitism. […]

An Oxford Union election tribunal has found two candidates in the society’s elections guilty of electoral malpractice. The ‘Rise’ slate’s candidates for Secretary; Lee Chin Wee, and its intended candidate for Librarian; Ayman D’Souza, who had seemingly by accident nominated for Treasurer, were found guilty of hindering the duties of the Returning Officer and communicating […]

The Oxford Student can reveal that there will be large disparities in how much students from different departments and faculties will be paid for working at the July Open days. The Open Days take place across the University each year in both colleges and departments and faculties. Students working for the departments/faculties of History, Politics […]

Oxford University’s Multaka-Oxford project, which provides volunteering opportunities for forced migrants at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum and History of Science Museum, has been presented with Volunteer Team of the Year at the Museum and Heritage Awards. The annual awards, which were announced on Wednesday 15 May aim to celebrate innovative and ground-breaking initiatives from the […]

The Oxford Union has passed a rules change that will allow students of Oxford Brookes University to buy permanent Union membership if their course lasts 3 years or more. Previously, only temporary membership was available to Brooke’s students, meaning that unlike University of Oxford students, they had no option for lifetime membership beyond the end […]

The Wilberforce Club hosted an Alien themed drinks event in St Giles’ Church on 10th May in honour of the Oxford academic Dr Young-hae Chi, who has joined the society as a Senior Member. Dr Chi is an instructor in Korean at Oxford’s Oriental Institute who has spoken and written about the presence of invisible […]

The Medical Sciences department announced on Twitter that it was the 4th year student Rebecca te Water Naude that helped a man safely exit a train on the 28th of March when his Parkinson’s medication failed. David Murray, Patient Advocate and Trustee of the Cure Parkinson’s Trust had taken to Twitter to ask for help […]

The latest update regarding the creation of Parks College, the new graduate college set to take in its first cohort in 2020, has identified the western wing of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory as the site for Parks’ college dining room –  it will however, not be ready until 2022. The first two cohorts, therefore, will […]

Ania Kordala, a student at Green Templeton, was allegedly asked to leave a talk on “Women and leadership – fighting for an equal world” for bringing her toddler. The talk was given by former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard at the Sheldonian Theatre on Tuesday 26 March. Gillard was the first female Australian prime minister […]

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 […]