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Exclusive: Oxford Union announces Michaelmas term card

Cherwell can exclusively reveal that actress Rebel Wilson, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, Bridgewater Associates CEO Nir Bar Dea, and Binance founder Changpeng Zhao are all set to speak at the Oxford Union this term.
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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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"Inferno" at the Randolph

Emergency services have been called to the scene of a fire at the historic Randolph Hotel in Oxford's city centre

General Election Survey 2015

Participate in Cherwell's election survey for the upcoming General Election

St John’s in £150,000 legal dispute over hawthorn hedge

A 180-yard stretch of hedgerow in Warwickshire is the subject of an expensive dispute between a retired man and a college with a £340 million endowment

Head of Oxford Careers Service defends tutorial comments

Jonathan Black clarifies his remarks about Oxford's tutorial system that he does not believe 'actually damages employability prospects'

One injured and three arrested during EDL march in Oxford

Unite Against Fascism tried to counter English Defence League's protest against the handling of 'Muslim Grooming Gangs'

Clarkson named as Andrew Hamilton successor

Students react angrily to news that the controversial former BBC presenter is to assume the University’s senior executive role

Union invites banned anti-Islam activist

Robert Spencer, who is banned from entering the UK, has been invited to debate with Anjem Choudary whether ‘Radicalisation is Born At Home’

Oxford Bursar says cost of a degree is “just not worth it"

David Palfreyman argues that some university degrees are not worth their tuition fees, although Oxford students have 'nowt to moan'

Oxford Union invites Anjem Choudary to debate radicalism

Islamist preacher has been asked to discuss whether 'radicalism is born at home', despite his arrest in September

St Benet’s to admit female undergraduates

The PPH is currently raising funds to acquire a second site in Oxford to house female undergraduate students

Weston Library stages public opening

The library has had its public opening following a three year refurbishment

Olivia Merrett announced as Union President

Following Roberto Weeden-Sanz and Antonia Trent's resignations, Olivia Merrett and Zuleyka Shahin have taken on their respective roles

Vice-Chancellor named next President of NYU

Vice-Chancellor Andrew Hamilton has been named as the 16th President of New York University

Union in leadership crisis

Positions of President and Treasurer left vacant after Senior Disciplinary Committee ruling

Ruskin cuts Women’s Studies MA

Ruskin College has confirmed that it is to close the course for financial reasons, despite online pressure

University building occupied by pro-divestment protesters

The Clarendon Building on Broad Street has been occupied by Oxford alumni protesting the University's postponement of a decision on fossil fuel divestment

Catz students chase intruder from college

Second-years at St Catherine's found an unidentified man in their staircase and chased him from the scene, retrieving their valuables

Catz ban on The Sun called into question

St Catherine's College JCR called an extraordinary general meeting due to a poll on which newspapers the JCR should stock being deemed undemocratic

Vincent’s Club to remain all-male establishment

Vincent's Club, a society dominated by male Oxford Blues, will remain all-male after failing to reach the two-thirds majority for a constitutional change

Home Office withdraws Campsfield expansion plan

Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre will not be expanded following an independent review of people in detention
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