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Steel tycoon donates £3.5m to Oxford vaccine research

The University of Oxford has received a donation of £3.5 million from billionaire steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, to aid the development of a COVID-19...

Trinity in the time of pandemic

Scraping dredges of hummus with my last-but-one piece of flatbread, my first year at Oxford ended with an anti-climatic sigh as I clicked ‘send’...

Oxford announces COVID-19 protocols for Michaelmas

Oxford University has published further information concerning its plans to ensure the health of both students and staff for the upcoming academic year. Priority...

All Oxford colleges preparing for “household” accommodation groups

All colleges will operate a "household" approach to accommodation next year to minimise the spread of COVID-19, Oxford University has announced. Colleges are planning...

Non-academic staff at Keble face possible redundancy

Keble College has announced a month-long process of consultation about a redundancy programme to deal with the financial impact of COVID-19. Details have been...

Experiencing museums and galleries in a COVID-19 age

"Even if there were a sense of restriction, it would feel a little tone-deaf to mourn the old, ‘normal’ gallery visit." Josie Moir ponders our experience of galleries and museums in a COVID-19 Age

Oxford Expands Coronavirus Trial to Brazil and South Africa

Having already undergone Phase I/II of clinical trials that began in April, Oxford's experimental vaccine is set to be trialled in Brazil and South...

Oxford launches new COVID-19 hotspot tool

The University of Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science has developed a tool which uses demographic data to identify areas of England and Wales...

Oxford SU petitions University to defer postgrad continuation fees

The Oxford Student Union (SU) has launched a petition calling on the University to defer all payment of graduate continuation fees until its reopening....

Give us back our bodies: COVID-19 and access to abortion services in Northern Ireland

"How can Northern Irish politicians claim to be “pro-life” while putting people’s lives at risk, forcing them to travel during a pandemic or else carry an unwanted and in some cases medically dangerous pregnancy?"

Has ‘Over the Rainbow’ been overcooked?

As ‘We’ll Meet Again’ rang through the streets of the UK on VE Day on Friday 8th May, with echoes of the previous night’s ‘Somewhere Over...

Duke of Westminster donates £1M to COVID-19 mental health research at Oxford

The Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, has donated £1 million to fund Oxford Department of Psychiatry research on the mental health effects of COVID-19...

University announces plans for in-person teaching in Michaelmas, UCU not consulted

Oxford University has announced its commitment to resume some face-to-face teaching in Michaelmas term. In an email to students, the vice-chancellor, Prof Louise Richardson, affirmed...

Oxford researchers lead drug trial into alternative COVID-19 treatments

Researchers at the University of Oxford are working alongside NHS associates as part of a team to carry out a new clinical drug trial to aid...

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