Tag: humanities

"Oxford as a cultural centre on a global scale"

By facilitating copious AI usage, the University fails to deliver on its centuries-long tradition of encouraging original thought. 

It’s high time we stopped arguing over which is more difficult, and instead started asking what STEM and the humanities can learn from each other.

The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities has opened in Oxford’s Radcliffe Observatory Quarter. The Centre is named after Stephen A. Schwarzman, who made donations...

It’s easy to think of an arts degree as a fruitless pleasure. But education and academic study are intrinsically valuable.

The real problem is that sceptics don’t understand what humanities scholars do.

"The world’s number one ranked university in thrall to one man."

"On Friday 3rd May, the University of Oxford celebrated the ’topping out’ of the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. The ceremony to mark the completion of the roof involved speeches from Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey and donor Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO of the Blackstone Group, who has to date donated £185 million in support of the project. Musical acts clad in hard hats braved rainy conditions to perform on the roof, still a site of ongoing construction."

'I love Oxford, but I love it predominantly for reasons other than the education'

"The Centre has the potential to cement Oxford’s position as the leading destination for humanities not just in the UK, but in the World."

'I am not sure what broke me. I think it's a close tie between the discussion around NaCl when I asked for the salt to be passed down the table or when someone genuinely asked the group what their favourite way to measure the centre of mass was.'

In an email to students, Head of Major Capital Projects Karen Brill announced the imminent revelation of the firm tasked with the development of...

Stephen Schwarzman has been described as "the epitome of American capitalism"

Last week, The Economist took it upon itself to settle once and for all the debate around which of your mates ‘does a real degree’, which...