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Oxford and UNESCO launch a free global course on AI and Rule of Law

The University of Oxford has paired up with UNESCO to launch a free global course titled “AI, Justice, and Rule of Law”. The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will teach those in legal settings to navigate the ethical, legal, and human rights challenges of AI.

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£26 million in visiting student tuition fees: Inside the finances of Oxford’s visiting student programme

Across the twelve colleges that disclosed figures, the total income from visiting student tuition fees from 2021 to 2025 amounted to £26,474,583.

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Tommy Robinson Union invite sparks controversy across University

The Oxford Union has invited Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who identifies as Tommy Robinson, to speak at a Week 5 debate on the motion ‘This house believes the West is right to be suspicious of Islam’. The invitation has generated backlash from University societies, senior Union officials, and Stand Up to Racism UK.

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Think tank publishes report calling for centralised Oxbridge admissions

The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has published a new report advocating for centralised admissions procedures for applications to the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, arguing that the current collegiate system increases the opacity and complexity for applicants and their teachers.

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Ambition, lies, and (good) fake photos

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers, the old adage goes. Or, if it appeared in the hugely influential American politics mag The...

Bad Education

Bad Education @ Phoenix Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film on sex, religion, and abuse is unlike anything you will see in the coming months. In...

The Saddest Music in the World

First things first: don’t let the title deceive you. This may be a movie about melancholia, but it’s also an absolute riot; hugely inventive...

In Need of Divine Aid

Faithless No Roots Out 7 June Before we start, there’s something I have to share: Maxi Jazz does something to me. And no, this...

Live: Kathryn Williams @ The Zodiac

Reviewers have described Kathryn Williams voice as ‘delicate’ and ‘ethereal’; physically she is much more corporeal. This was just one of the anomalies that...

Jesse Malin: The Heat

Ryan Adams does get around. In addition to his four solo albums in three years, Adams is also responsible for a tongue-incheek, punk-thrash album...

The Futureheads: Self-titled

Before reaching for the play button on your stereo, you would be correct in thinking you are about to listen to an understated, ‘lets-just-give-it-ago-...

Village PErson: Singing Persian Brides

A split watermelon. Ripe and bursting, its seeds spilling out of its flesh. Women singing, talking, sifting rice. A wedding has passed, another is...

Begdorf Blondes – Plum Sykes

If you scorn fashion and designer names, disdain the Bridge on a Thursday night, and prefer Marks and Spenser’s to Harrods, avoid this book...

Cambridge stunned in Parks

Oxford emerged from the dressing room after tea on day two in the knowledge that their first innings had already won the match and...

Oriel begin Summer Eights with sweet revenge

Wednesday’s Rowing by Elaina Evans After controversy over entries and a very tough rowing-on contest last Friday, it was a relief to see Summer...

LMH’s Churchillian effort clinches match

Cuppers Tennis LMH 7 - 5 St Johns LMH’s second pair of Rob Churchill and Mark Holmquist held their nerve in a crucial tiebreak...

Hertford not ready to Exet

Sexy football was the order of the day at the third round of the Cuppers 5-a-side football last Thursday this round was definitely less...

Oriel flirts with OUSU’s pants

Oriel students went to the polls yesterday to decide whether or not to re-affiliate to OUSU after three years outside the student union. ...

Rents and RONs stir JCRs to act

In the recent Wadham SU presidential elections, students voted to reopen nominations rather than elect those standing for election. No ostensible reasons for this...

Skanky food sees Chinese fined

An Oxford restaurant has been fined £17,000 for the filthy conditions in which its food was prepared. The Liasion Chinese Restaurant in Castle...

Fire alarms inflame finalists

Angry finalists forced Lincoln College to change the time of the fire drills this week, after discovering that they were planned for 8.50am, half-an-hour...

Flesh eating sex pest

A plastic surgeon has been accused of “serious professional misconduct” this week, after beginning a sexual relationship with one of his patients he was...

Undebatably fashionable

Scantily dressed men and women strutted down the catwalk at the Union last Friday. The hallowed Debating Chamber, filled to capacity with 350 onlookers,...

‘Ruthless’ St John’s

Residents of North Oxford have been protesting vigorously against the property development plans of St John’s, fearing the harmful effect on the community. ...

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