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Oxford partnership allows OpenAI to use rare Bodleian texts to train ChatGPT

A pilot scheme, launched in 2025, allows OpenAI to use materials from the Bodleian Library to train its models, documents obtained by The Guardian and seen by Cherwell show.

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Oxford falls to lowest ever spot in The Times UK University Guide 2027

The University of Oxford has placed fifth in The Times’s 2027 UK university rankings, falling from joint fourth with the University of Cambridge last year. This marks Oxford’s lowest ranking in the guide’s 33 year history and only the second time the University has not been in the top three.

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Protest held outside Town Hall over sale of Council-owned building to St Peter’s

A protest took place today outside Oxford Town Hall against Oxford City Council’s plan to sell 11 New Road to St Peter’s College, which would convert most of the building into student housing.

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Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after...

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Oxford ACS wins ‘BAME Society of the Year’

The group topped the ballot of 12 nationwide societies, winning recognition for "doing the most to support BAME communities at uni"

Bodleian to exhibit unpublished JRR Tolkien artworks

The three works, which have never before been viewed by the public, date back to Tolkien’s early years in Oxford

Oxford among worst universities for equal access

Cambridge was ranked worst, while seven other Russell Group universities – including St Andrew’s, Bristol, Durham, and Aberdeen – rounded out the bottom ten.

Oxford students spend most on sex toys

With four of the five top-rated universities in the UK making it into the top buyers table, it has been suggested that there may be a link between intelligence and sex drive

Record number of Oxford students found guilty of plagiarism

53 students were reported for copying work without acknowledgement last year

Oxford will not reconsider Sackler donations despite opioid link

A £1 million donation from the Sacklers to the National Portrait Gallery has been held up in internal review

Oxford colleges release gender pay gap data

Female staff at New College earn just 76p for every £1 that its male staff earn

Hassan’s to trial delivery service

The new ‘doner-to-door’ service will run throughout next term

Inheriting the earth: students twice as likely to worship

2.6% of students regularly attend services, compared to 1.4% of the general population

Materials department slammed for ‘sexist’ invite

Department of Materials alumna Anna Ploszajski received the invitation and took to Twitter, using the popular hashtag #everydaysexism

Brexit update outlines Oxford’s research strategy

The University clarified it will keep its “desired outcomes from the Brexit negotiations unchanged.”

Open letter demands undergraduate climate change education

Undergraduates should have an understanding of the "defining challenge of our generation," it says

Oxford SU criticised by government freedom of speech inquiry

The Commission on Human Rights report criticised the SU for its role in shutting down a pro-life event last year

New strike dates announced as UCU members consider deal

Union members will vote next week on whether to accept the proposal from Universities UK

Oxford bottom for offers to students from poor neighbourhoods

Just 2.8 per cent of the University’s intake were from students who live in areas classified as the most difficult to engage in higher education

Shakira Martin re-elected as NUS president

Martin won a landslide victory in the first round of voting

Twickenham extends Varsity agreement

The agreement was extended ahead of 100th Anniversary of the Varsity Match at the National Stadium

Oxford student who stabbed boyfriend has appeal refused

Lavinia Woodward was spared jail at Oxford Crown Court last year, after she received a suspended sentence

OULC slam Labour’s ‘consistently inadequate’ responses to anti-semitism

They described Corbyn's apology as "not a sufficient response to the concerns raised by Jewish members."

University ‘confident’ exams will be unaffected as external examiner resignations mount

Of the 20 external examiners who have resigned from their post with Oxford, six have been from the Faculty of English Language and Literature

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