Opinion

We need summer re-sits

Desmond Weisenberg discusses the impact of Oxford's lack of summer re-sits

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Course culling is a threat to us all

Education is valuable for its own sake, Rampant course culls are the result of wrongly boiling it down to economic value.

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Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

It exists in the overly sympathetic sighs of ‘solidarity’, the overexaggeration of comparatively minor and mundane inconveniences

Opinion Leo Jones -

Oxford is making you childish

With rooms cleaned, meals made, and jobs banned, Oxford students fail to experience true independence. Is it any wonder we're so childish?

Opinion Finlo Cowley -

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OxPolicy and admissions: a review

Ben Evans attended the most recent OxPolicy event and found much to be admired about student attitudes to access

Interview: Tobias Jones

Alex Walker talk to the author and journalist about the ideas behind his woodland refuge away from today’s shallow cosmopolitanism

One thing I’d change about Oxford… Coffee shops

What would you change? This week in our new feature Amber Bal attacks the coffee outlets capitalising on our crippling need for extra energy

The NUS beyond the conference

Student campaigns, in Oxford and beyond, are now fighting a political context which attacks those struggling the most. They cannot fight it alone. I...

Interview: Alister McGrath

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Satireangst: why even comedians need protection from the powerful

Germany’s relationship with freedom of expression has long been a problematic one. The Nazi period followed by the GDR impressed the importance of it...

Trump: a blessing in disguise?

Antonio Gottardello argues that Trump's rise will help create a break towards the left in the US

Unheard Oxford: Dr Francesca Galligan, curator of rare books

Another view on the dreaming spires. This week, Alex Walker talks to Dr Francesca Galligan, a curator of rare books at the Bod

One thing I’d change about Oxford… Collections

What would you change? This week in our new feature Louis McEvoy bemoans the cloud hanging over the start of everyone's term: collections

Can art be effective as a means of student protest?

Indispensably inspiring or never as useful as a physical presence? Simran Uppal and Richard Birch debate the strengths and weaknesses of art as a form of protest.

A Guide for getting the Ball rolling

“It's going to be a white presentation of these places they're trying to represent, full of stereotypes, which is erasing and gross." This was...

In defence of my NUS referendum motion: a response to Luke Barratt

David Klemperer responds to Luke Barratt’s criticism of his NUS referendum motion

Everything wrong with the NUS disaffiliation motion

In a real car-crash of a motion to OUSU Council, David Klemperer, one of Oxford’s NUS delegates and a member of the ‘Oh Well,...

A referendum on the NUS

Harry Samuels speaks to NUS' naivety, calling the organisation "patently unreformable"

MOOCs: the future since 2012

Daniel Kodsi argues that elite brick-and-morter universities will never quite fade away

Unheard Oxford: Laura Cracknell, Pembroke Librarian

Another view on the dreaming spires. This week, Sophie Dowle talks to Laura Cracknell, the Pembroke librarian

Interview: Khalid Abdel-Hadi

The founder of Jordan’s first LGBTQ+ magazine discusses the challenges facing the community

Do we wrongly hate hypocrisy?

Ben Evans questions the usefulness of our frequent charges of hypocrisy

Debate: ‘are Oxford degrees valued too highly?’

Just like any other university, or a hotbed of opportunity? Akshay Bilolikar and Alec Fullerton argue whether Oxford's pitfalls outweigh its benefits.

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Opinion

We need summer re-sits

Course culling is a threat to us all

Oxford’s poverty porn addiction

Oxford is making you childish

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