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This is how we combat the crusade against universities
Elite college students can’t read. The university wage premium has significantly declined. The young are unable to fulfil the requirements of an intensive academic degree, and even if they...
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Morien Robertson
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From pensioners to students, all should fear the Palestine Action ban
I do not support Palestine Action. No one can after midnight on Saturday the...
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Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy
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Trashing rules save face, not students
Trashing is banned. But what does the banning achieve except pushing students further from...
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Chloe Smith
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The Language Faculty is promoting intelligence, not artifice
Isaac Asimov’s fantastic short story ‘The Last Question’ has always struck me as vaguely...
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Lloyd Doré-Green
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Cartoon: ‘Have a restful vac!’
The Easter vac, anticipated
Tutorials are the antidote to declining public speaking skills
We struggle in an era where much of our most important communication takes place in writing
Unhappy feet? Uni on thin ice over welfare penguins
Penguins should never be a prize for completing a Bodleian Libraries survey
Oxford now has the right approach to animal testing
The current position of involving animal testing in research, but not teaching, is best
Labour must do more for student renters
Ending 'no fault' evictions should be just the start
Cartoon: ‘The people’s Chancellor’
Hague enjoys scrolling on Oxfess and watching Saltburn
In defence of Oxford’s ugliest architecture
We should consider what brutalism represents
Abolishing tuition fees would be a middle class cash grab
Such a move would imperil the quality of British universities, do little to make university more affordable, and be socially unjust.
‘Expolwed!’: The Oxford Union’s lazy use of AI
A betrayal of the Union’s supposed commitment to free speech, a failure of both imagination and principle.
Representation requires participation: A call to action from the SU
Engage with us, hold us accountable, and see what student representation at its best can achieve.
Why we don’t care about the Student Union controversy
We don’t care about the Student Union, and we have no incentive to.
The fate of the humanities in a digital world
The real problem is that sceptics don’t understand what humanities scholars do.
Cartoon: ‘Rishi returns’
Rishi Sunak returns to teach at Oxford.
Our intellectual self-indulgence is killing social progress
Those who access a world-class education have a special imperative to act.
Handwriting is a necessary skill and a dying art
Seeing the writing of some of my undergraduate friends, I’d rather hold my pen than hold my breath!
Reply: Tutoring can be a force for good
A refusal to engage with the potential of tutoring amounts to prioritising ethical intuition over improving lives.
Don’t let the chatbots win
Using AI to write an essay is embarrassing. There's almost always an element of deception involved.
Cartoon: ‘Ticking time bomb’
A response to the rise of Reform UK across campuses.
How far has Oxford come since the millennium?
An Oxonian is prime minister, the University’s chancellor is a baron, and our financing is still amoral at best.
If private schools were abolished, everyone would win
Attending a state comp gives you a greater sense of perspective.
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