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Your right to know: Oxford colleges’ non-compliance with FOI requests

Under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000, members of the public have the right to request certain information from public authorities, which are...

Record number of BME students received places in 2022 as EU and overall applications fall

According to Oxford’s newest admissions report, for the first time in at least five years, the overall number of applications to Oxford has decreased,...

Census data shows Oxford is getting smarter

The most recent census data, published January 10th, shows that Oxford’s residential population is one of the best educated nationwide. Oxford, a city which...

Investigation reveals “unacceptable” levels of sexual harassment across University of Oxford

A five-month long Cherwell investigation indicates that there have been a minimum total of 93 complaints of sexual harassment across the University of Oxford since the beginning of the 2017/18 academic year.

Virtual beings: We are our data

"If we conceive of the self as digitally contingent and cybernetically oriented, virtual hazards become existential ones."

Reading Around the Lines: the Need for Data Literacy

As news outlets and social media feeds bombard us graphs and statistics, Maya Misra pushes for greater literacy in order to understand the numbers behind flattening the curve

Damian Collins: emergency legislation needed for a snap general election

Calls for reform to rules on election campaigning have been made following the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal in 2018.

Oxford researchers expose ‘data thirst’ of big tech companies

The figures further reveal how vast numbers of apps are set up to convey data to big tech companies, with Google topping the list of potential recipients.

University trawled sensitive data to drive donations

The records of almost 200,000 Oxford alumni have been inspected since August 2007.

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