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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 reveals gender pay gap

Newly released figures show a mean gender pay gap of 24.5%, which is higher than the national average

Wadham hosts £500-a-head ketamine conference

Academics and NHS employees discussed the drug's antidepressant effects

Oxford beats Cambridge for data security

A cybersecurity firm found that Cambridge had its email addresses stolen more than twice as often as Oxford

Vice chancellor calls for calm as new pensions deal proposed

Under the proposed agreement, the current defined benefit pension scheme will remain until at least April 2019

Government blocks Oxford MP’s bill for rough sleepers

Layla Moran’s bill was motivated in part by student campaigning efforts to repeal the Vagrancy Act

Discarded Boat Race rower denies ‘bust-up’ rumours

Joshua Bugajski, who was replaced "due to illness" on Tuesday, was seen training with Great Britain the next day

Oxford academics launch ‘blockchain university’

Woolf University will not have a physical campus, but will use an app which allows academics to advertise their services to prospective students

Six colleges pushed for controversial pension reform

Leaked documents suggest that several colleges shared the University’s position on risk in the scheme

Martin Scorsese and Mary Beard to receive honorary degrees

Seven individuals will be awarded at an annual ceremony in June

Oxford ranks sixth best for ‘student experience’

Cambridge ranked below Oxford in five of the Times Higher Education survey's seven categories

Don protests his innocence in video as third woman accuses him of rape

The video shows Ramadan declaring himself “totally innocent of the crimes I am accused of.”

Finalist degrees jeopardised by external examiner resignations

Examiners have been called to resign in solidarity with the UCU strike, potentially disrupting the setting and marking of papers

Proposal to build cable car network in Oxford

The proposed gondola lifts would be the seventh passenger cable car network in the UK

Homeless emergency protocol activated

The Severe Weather Emergency Protocol will now have been in operation for 31 nights this winter

Magdalen Commemoration Ball scrapped

The 2019 ball was dropped after a lack of committee applications, echoing Magdalen's cancellation of the same event in 2015

Oxford academic drowned in Greece

The highly respected Classics tutor and lecturer drowned off the coast of Ouranoupoli, Greece last September

St. Hugh’s restricts smoking on college site

Smoking will be limited to five areas, in a move criticised as "ridiculous" and "parental"

Oxford remembers Stephen Hawking

The 76 year-old scientist and former Oxford student died peacefully at his home in the early hours of Wednesday morning

Exeter undergrads threatened with ‘serious consequences’ after bop mayhem

Sub-rector Barnaby Taylor called undergraduates' behaviour "wholly unacceptable"

Uni to introduce undergrad paper in feminist philosophy

The University aims to have four professors in feminist philosophy by next year

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