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Image Description: A picture of the roof of the Radcliffe Camera, with leaves in the foreground. The University of Oxford has today issued new guidance concerning the return of students for the start of next year. An email sent to staff confirmed that the University would be moving to Stage 1 of the Business Continuity […]
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Oxford University’s denouncement of UNWomen Oxford’s cancellation of an event with Amber Rudd came after concern about pressure from the government and right-wing critics, according to a series of emails released in a freedom of information request. The university denied suggestions of government influence. Last month, the UNWomen Oxford UK Society cancelled the controversial former Home […]
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Corpus Christi JCR has published an open letter calling on Louise Richardson, Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor, and Professor Lionel Tarrassenkothe, the provisional Head of House, to stop the establishment of the proposed new postgraduate college, provisionally named ‘Parks College’. The JCR’s open letter criticised the development of the new college for showing “a shocking disregard for the […]
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Over 32 JCR Presidents have put their name to a letter to Vice-Chancellor Louise Richardson expressing “deep concern” regarding the University’s mental health provisions. The letter claims that “UK students are in the midst of a mental health crisis”, citing figures which suggest that 78% of students believe they have suffered from mental health problems […]
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Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, appeared as a panellist during today’s event at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. The event was titled “Confronting Illiberalism: The Role of the Media, Civil Society and Universities” and included three panel discussions, one on which the focus was on how universities can face the challenges of illiberalism. […]
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Alex Kumar, chair of the Oxford SU On Your Doorstep homelessness campaign, has rejected a nomination for the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Awards. The awards “recognise students who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in commitment to voluntary and charitable work, and social entrepreneurship”. In a Facebook post, he cited Vice-Chancellor Richardson’s defence of academic freedom for tutors […]
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In recent days, comments by the University’s Vice-Chancellor Louise Richardson on the topic of safe spaces – ranging from eleven days to months in origin – have come under the spotlight. Earlier this week, a Tab article reporting Richardson’s comments on the topic while taking part in a Radio 4 interview from 8 months ago […]
Continue ReadingPictured: an entrance to the main campus of Peking University in China. It was announced last week that Peking University has purchased a site in Oxford and plans to open a branch of its business school in the city by 2018. The Beijing-based institution purchased Foxcombe Hall for a reported £8.8 million, saying that they […]
Continue ReadingTwenty-four people have been selected from over 100 names put forward by current and former members of the University, to have their portraits done and exhibited later this year. The criteria set for potential nominees was that they were to be living, to have a significant link to Oxford, and to be making (or, indeed, […]
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The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson, has signed a letter printed in last weekend’s Sunday Times in favour of the United Kingdom remaining a member of the European Union. This is part of a more general re-kindling of the ongoing debate surrounding our membership of the EU, in the wake of the completion of […]
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Oxford’s ability to dominate the headlines has truly been tested these past few months. Whether the spotlight has shined on #RhodesMustFall, the university’s access efforts, or Louise Richardson herself, the fate of Britain’s oldest educational institution has been hotly debated. As the newly appointed and first female vice-chancellor, although she herself wishes this wasn’t in […]
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On Tuesday, the Oxford Student will be conducting an interview with Vice Chancellor Louise Richardson. We are giving you the opportunity to ask the questions. Tell us your questions before Tuesday, and we’ll select the best and most pertinent ones to ask Vice Chancellor Richardson. Just fill in the form below.
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Oxford University’s new Vice Chancellor has used her installation speech to lay out her agenda for an ‘agile’ university at the pinnacle of global change. Professor Louise Richardson, Oxford’s 272nd, and first woman, Vice Chancellor called on the university to show ‘agility’ in an era of globalization and technological change in a speech given to the congregation of the […]
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During this morning’s admission of Vice-Chancellor Richardson, Chancellor Patten, the ceremonial head of Oxford University, spoke out strongly in his welcome speech against historical revisionism in Oxford. Speaking before Professor Louise Richardson’s appointment, he stressed the need for both competitive public education spending and academic autonomy before moving on to criticise “intolerance” in universities. Chancellor […]
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Professor Louise Richardson has been nominated to succeed Andrew Hamilton as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Professor Richardson currently serves as Principal and Vice-Chancellor at St Andrew’s, and if her nomination is approved, Richardson will be the first female Vice-Chancellor of the University. Richardson has headed St. Andrews University since 2009, the latest position in an illustrious […]
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By midday on 12th January 2015, Oxford University’s Vice Chancellor, Andrew Hamilton, will have earned as much money as the university’s lowest-paid full-time employee earns in a whole year. Hamilton’s annual salary including pensions (£434,000) leaves him earning about £1,189 a day, meaning it would only take him around 12 days to earn the baseline […]
Continue ReadingOxford’s Vice-Chancellor was the second-highest paid university boss in Britain last year according to a report produced by The Times. Professor Andrew Hamilton received a total remuneration package of £434,000 in 2012-13, a 2.36% increase over last year. A spokesperson for the University and College Union (UCU) slammed Hamilton’s pay, saying: “It is the startling […]
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Continue ReadingOxford paid £16,500 for a portrait of Oxford Chancellor Chris Patten to form the aesthetic centrepiece of the atrium to University Offices in Wellington Square.
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