Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Xin Fan

Report: TEDx Oxford 2012

Xin Fan goes to TEDx Oxford, the student-run Oxford version of the world-renowned conference format, speaking to leading thinkers and innovators, including pianist James Rhodes and charity icon Camila Batmanghelidjh.

Mark Thompson delivers Oxford lectures

Ex-BBC director-general Mark Thompson has been giving lectures at St Peter's College in his role as Visiting Professor in Rhetoric and the Art of Public Persuasion.

Report: US Elections 2012

Cherwell reports from five colleges as Oxford students watch the American presidential election unfold on Tuesday 6 November and the morning of Wednesday 7 November, in a race widely thought by commentators to be 'too close to call'.

Housing campaign gathers pace

Letting agencies are put under pressure to withhold properties until after Christmas

Report: Oxfam turns 70

Oxfam, which started in Oxford during the Second World War, celebrated its 70th birthday at the Oxford Playhouse on 14th October 2012. Xin Fan meets some of the charity's famous supporters, including journalist and satirist Ian Hislop.

Exeter passes motion to remove porn filter

JCR motion, which claims 'there is nothing wrong with pornography', pressures college to make porn sites accessible

Oxford rejects ‘speed-dating’ interview system

It is 'unlikely' that the 'multiple mini interview' system will be introduced to Oxford despite the format being recently set up for various medical courses at other institutions.

Oxford rejects proposal for university report cards

The University dispels the idea that traditional degree classifications may be replaced by the 'Higher Education Achievement Report'

To every wannabe politician: get out there and volunteer

Xin Fan steps out of the bubble, volunteering at the Olympics, and urges politicians to do the same.

Ebdon: Oxbridge application process a “potential barrier”

Minister for Fair Access criticizes Oxford and Cambridge's admissions systems.

What not to take to Oxford

Xin Fan offers bemused freshers a helping hand.

65% of state schools send no students to Oxbridge

Newly available data reveals low Oxbridge intake for the majority of UK state schools

Subject tests for Oxford entrance on the rise

More and more Oxford applicants made to sit admissions test before interview

When I Grow Up

Xin Fan retraces a few childhood dream occupations we left behind

Report: Olympic Torch in Oxford

Xin Fan reports from South Park in East Oxford on Monday 9th July as the Olympic Torch procession arrives in the city before the start of the London 2012 Games.

University publishers fined over bribery scandal

Oxford University Press charged following discovery of corrupt activity

Christ Church reject motion for JCR presidential busts

Second year tables motion similar to recent motion at Brasenose that would have spent JCR money on bust of JCR presidents

Snog Marry Avoid? #6: Trinity Special

Xin Fan and Vickie Morrish host a Trinity SMA special featuring six of the sixteenth century's comeliest royal missuses

Cambridge professor hits out at ‘burgers in the bod’

Gillian Evans, a professor at Cambridge, has criticised the state of Oxford's libraries, claiming that the Bod is used as a place for 'chatting and eating'

LGBT dispute at New College

Students at New College change constitutional requirements for students running for LGBT reps after much debate

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