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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.

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.

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.

Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

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

Rutland and JCRs pass defiant motion

OUSU council and college JCRs pass motion condemning further fee rises.

Oxford academics to walk out on Halloween

Academics and staff are set to go out on strike on Thursday 31 October due to a dispute over pay

Keble asbestos not a threat

A college survey finds that Keble's asbestos is not a threat

Osborne’s Ex-checkered past

Former prostitute acquaintance to write memoirs about Osborne

Oxford engineers assist in breaking of land speed record

Drayson Racing has announced that it has set a new World Electric Land Speed Record of 204.185mph using an engine developed by a team from Oxford University’s Department of Engineering.

Bike safety campaign launched in Oxford

Oxfordshire police launch a campaign to improve road safety for Oxford cyclists.

Romantic success sealed with a kiss

Oxford University study shows that kissing can help us to find Mr or Mrs Right

Ex-BBC boss comes to Oxford

George Entwistle, the form Director General of the BBC, has enrolled as a master's student at Oxford

Corpus students in shell-shock

Corpus Christi students saddened by the death of their tortoise

Top flight Oxford lawyer crashes

‘Oxford’ city lawyer outed as a fake and suspended from practice

Oxford Professor’s drug for the treatment of MS approved

A professor of Lincoln College has helped to develop a drug for the treatment of multiple sclerosis

Freshers’ week Freudian sleep

A fresher from Exeter college woke up in the early hours of the morning in the cocktail bar's bathroom only to be mistaken for an intruder.

Sign-up sheets confiscated at Freshers’ Fair

OUSU confiscates sign-up sheets at Freshers’ Fair leading to widespread criticism

Marbles prove god exists

A survey conduct by the Student Life Society found that students think that god 'definitely' exists.

‘Overview of Oxford’ sales boom

An Oxford student has written a humorous guide to the city in order to raise money for a homeless charity.

Wadham sexual consent workshops made compulsory

Wadham has made its sexual consent workshops a compulsory part of freshers' week

Drug involvement at St Peter’s bop brawl

Cherwell can confirm rumours of drug involvement at the St Peter’s bop altercation last Saturday

George Galloway confronted with Israeli flag

George Galloway's speech at the Oxford Union this evening was disturbed by a student bearing an Israeli flag who labelled the Respect MP as 'racist'

Oxford dons back strike action

Over 60% of voters in a ballot by the main union of academics supported industrial action

Harris Manchester razor blade warning

A Harris Manchester student has found a razor blade embedded upright in his bike saddle according to a JCR email

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