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Lawyers are weird. Mods are (partly) to blame

Mods makes every law student irritable, isolated, and disillusioned with their subject. We should move them to Trinity for everyone's sanity.

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British students simply can’t afford postgraduate study at Oxford

Zero kroner. That’s exactly how much EU students pay for masters study at the...

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New year, same me?

Whether it be exercise, relaxation, or the oh-so-naïve ‘Dry January’, the idea of resolution-making is one that has become redundant.

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Navigating Oxford’s social media footprint

How do colleges maintain a social media presence when competing with 40 others? From...

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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.

Not everyone needs – or ought – to go to university

Student Finance is a truly wonderful thing. But it comes at a massive cost.

Cartoon: ‘Daddy I got in!’

Reaction to a new round of offers to study at Oxford.

Admissions tutoring proves that money beats merit

Private tutoring for Oxbridge admissions exemplifies everything wrong with educational inequality.

In defence of the History Admissions Test

Whilst the History Faculty is right to reconsider how it implements the HAT, scrapping it won’t do any good.

It’s time for a new view on college disparities

If we lived on the sterilised campus of one great identikit 'Oxford University', we should all imagine ourselves to be less fortunate.

Cut the job chat

It’s Michaelmas term of my final year. The days are short, my patience even shorter, and every conversation seems to circle back to the...

The inevitability of Noodle Bridge

In a controversial move, Christ Church College has been granted approval for the construction of a new footbridge crossing the A40. But what makes...

Lessons from the Cambridge Union

I went to Cambridge a few weeks ago, and attended a Cambridge Union debate on whether feminism and religion were compatible. I should warn...

Unfortunately, the Union Matters

Within a decade of being founded, the Oxford Union was already doing its best to tear itself apart – complete with a faux-epic of...

Divestment will take more than a review board

As reported by Cherwell last week, the Ethical Investment Representations Review Subcommittee (EIRRS) is conducting a review of the University’s current investment policy. The...

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Lawyers are weird. Mods are (partly) to blame

British students simply can’t afford postgraduate study at Oxford

New year, same me?

Navigating Oxford’s social media footprint

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