Tag: humanities

"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...

'The Economist's' giddy attacks on an elitist Oxbridge reduce the issue to a caricature.

Joseph Botman makes a case for the importance of the humanities in contemporary society

The American Academy, one of the oldest US research centres, has appointed two Oxford academics

Daniel Curtis takes a socially-awkward look at the perils of the contact hours in the humanities