News

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...

Powerful Pembroke triumph

Pembroke 3Christ Church 1Many might have considered the final of the men’s hockey cuppers competition as a foregone conclusion. Pembroke fielded four current or...

RadCam rumours denied

Rumours regarding the future of the Radcliffe Camera have recently been circulated in the national press.There were suggestions that the Lower Reading Room could...

Fools, squires, and bagmen

Miranda Kaufmann discovers that there is more to Morris Dancing in Oxford than just old bearded gentlemen with bells onInstantly recognisable by their white...

UEFA fails to deal with thugs

Tuesday 5 April 2005. A special moment in the history of European football as Liverpool fans atone for the horrors of the past with...

NUS anti-Semitism condemned by JSoc

The Presidents of the Oxford University Jewish Society have condemned the National Union of Students (NUS) for its “failure to confront anti-Semitism”.The Annual NUS...

Health

Bipolar disorderMANIC DEPRESSION, or bipolar disorder, is essentially a brain disfunction causing unusual shifts in a person’s mood and energy. These shifts are manifested...

‘Even though we train so much’

Binyamin Even talks to OUBC President Robin Bourne-Taylor in about life as a Blues rower in Oxford Robin Bourne-Taylor represents you. As President of...

Accident halts High Street

On Monday afternoon a 22-year old woman was involved in an accident with a Stagecoach bus on High Street, bringing the City Centre to...

Eat

Ben Coffer gorges on piesTHE BE-MULLETED eighties pop duo Tears For Fears were wrong about so much, yet in one respect they were right...

The sensitive iconographer

Fifty years after Satyajit Ray’s monumental debut ‘Pather Panchali’ stunned critics and enthralled audiences at home and abroad, Somak Ghoshal examines the legacy of...

Inquest reopened into rower’s death

A second inquest has been opened into the death of Leo Blockley, a member of Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club who drowned in the...

The plummy voice of NY

Plum Sykes, socialite editor and novelist, entertains Josh Spero with stories of Bergdorf Blondes and American VogueConsidered from afar, Plum Sykes is an imposing...

MP supports Azim in Oxford

St John’s first year Engineer Azim Ansari continues to remain in the country, despite the expiration of his official deadline for voluntary return to...

Mourning Jean Paul II

Remembering his ten hours queueing in the Vatican City, Mark Cooper describes his pilgrimage to Rome to honour the late Pope, John Paul II....

Shelley Memorial all washed up?

On 25 March 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley and his close friend, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, walked up and down the quadrangle in University College awaiting...

Tribunal attempt fails

An Oxford Union tribunal carried out at the end of last term found President-Elect Chris Farmer not guilty on seven claims of electoral malpractice....

Jongleurs

Bar Risa, Hythe Bridge StreetSaturday 16 AprilAfter an hour and a half of freely flowing beer and copius numbers of cocktail pitchers, the Saturday...

Touched by Fire – BT Late

This intriguing drama deals with a theme which has never been more relevant to society, exploring as it does the nature of terrorism. Inspired...

British Sea Power Live

British Sea Power landed on a stage festooned with foliage and an assortment of plastic birds. The fresh-faced five have cultivated a country-life chic...

Drink: Browns

Browns 5 - 11 Woodstock Road 01865 319655 The bar in Browns may not immediately leap to mind as the ideal student hangout –...

Follow us