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Image description: Professor Aditi Lahiri, CBE Five University of Oxford academics and medics have been honoured in Her Majesty’s New Year’s Honours List 2020. They have all been rewarded for their significant medical and academic contributions to society. Current members of the University featured on the Queen’s Honours List are as follows: Professor Karen Louise Barker, […]
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In the latest ERC funding announcement, on 10th December 2019, the University of Oxford received €56 million in European Research Council funding. Nine Oxford researchers received ERC Consolidator Grants, the most awarded to any institution in the UK and second in Europe only to the French National Centre for Scientific Research. 301 researchers across 24 […]
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Oxford University is the best place in Europe to study social sciences and the second best place to study social sciences in the world, according to Times Higher Education University rankings. MIT was ranked best in the world, whilst Cambridge University was ranked 5th. The social science ranking is calculated in the same way as […]
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Image Description: Edinburgh students protest against university fees in London Education, education, education. The rallying cry of New Labour still echoes through political discourse today, perhaps more than ever, as students remain unsatisfied with the provision of university education. Oxford is in many ways exceptional, but in the debate around education it finds itself mired […]
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On 25th May at 13:00, Oxford University Dancesport Cuppers took place. This is quite a well-established competition with records going back to at least 1986. Dancesport is roughly defined as any kind of competitive partner dancing, with the two most popular categories being Ballroom (also known as Standard) and Latin. Cuppers teams compete over four […]
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As a wearer and lover of stash, I thought I would respond to an article, published by the OxStu, in which my beloved stash faced the opprobrium of a fellow student who sadly misses the point of stash altogether. I proudly admit to owning a plethora of different articles of stash, which includes a puffer jacket, […]
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The University of Oxford has announced a programme of new measures of financial support for students from a variety of disadvantaged backgrounds. Students from low-income households, care-leavers and estranged students will all see increased in funding available to them during their time in Oxford. The new funding will become available to students starting their studies […]
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The University’s Men’s Performance Volleyball Team enjoyed a spectacular victory against Exeter University in the BUCS Premier League. The match was a much anticipated game after their close defeat, 3-2, after their journey to Devon at the end of 2018, and the preparations for the match began as soon as term started. The home side […]
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The Oriel college JCR Treasurer faced a vote of no confidence after the JCR passed a motion to grant the Treasurer £50. It was claimed the purpose of the motion was to highlight the importance of JCR meetings and to encourage attendance. The motion was first proposed by the Treasurer on the 12th of […]
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Oxford’s new graduate college, to be named Parks College, will share the premises of the Radcliffe Science Library as a “flexible space”, the University has revealed. In December, the University announced a new graduate college which “will occupy the historic Radcliffe Science Library site on Parks Road and will start recruiting 200 graduate students in […]
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Students of University College have sent a letter to their college authorities expressing “serious concern and discomfort with Emeritus Professor John Finnis”, and calling for “discussions to be had as to how we are going to protect the members of college who have been hurt and alienated by the comments of Professor John Finnis”. In […]
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Picture Credit: Jeremiah Vandermeer (CC BY 2.0) A gift made to the University by artificial intelligence company DeepMind has seen the creation of new graduate scholarships for computer science courses. On a statement on the University’s website, it was announced that: “the donation will be used by Oxford to launch a new scholarship programme to support […]
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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: Chris McAndrew (CC BY 3.0) The Minister for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation will defend the Government in the first Oxford Union debate of the academic year, ‘This House Has No Confidence in Her Majesty’s Government’. Sam Gyimah, also a former Government Whip, was raised in both the UK and Ghana before being […]
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We all remember the excitement last December when the price of Bitcoin, the most famous of the cryptocurrencies, rose to $19,000 from only $3,000 three months earlier. This made a lot of lucky investors very rich, but what exactly were they buying? Bitcoin was invented as an electronic alternative to cash that cannot be spent […]
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