Transforming Silence: The group reinvigorating change to University sexual assault policy
Led by (ex-)Oxford undergraduates and current graduate students across six faculties and sixteen colleges, the new collective aims to both be a space to support survivors and a movement that prevents further sexual violence.
Seven Oxford University members awarded New Year’s Honours
Seven members of Oxford University have been recognised by the New Years’ Honours List 2022. The List recognises extraordinary contributions to fields ranging from health to education and aims to praise those who have had a significant positive impact on their community and the wider nation.
Oxford University received £70,000 from controversial mining company Rio Tinto
Oxford University received at least £70,000 from trans-national mining company Rio Tinto since 2013, Oxford Climate Justice Campaign have revealed.
Patricia Kingori becomes youngest Black Oxbridge professor
Patricia Kingori, a research fellow at Somerville College, has become one of the youngest women to be awarded a full professorship in Oxford’s 925-year history, and she is the youngest ever Black professor at Oxford or Cambridge.
Professor Stephen Blythe announced as new Principal of LMH
Harvard Professor Stephen Blythe has been announced as the new Principal of Lady Margaret Hall, starting in Michaelmas Term 2022.
Time to take responsibility: All Souls’ dirty legacies
"Out-of-date relics of elitism like All Souls hold a responsibility to do more than the bare minimum. But since pandemic rules paved the way for justifiable closing down, one cannot help but feel it is convenient for the College to keep these legacies hidden behind locked doors."
Oxford University and the alienation of working students
"Working a job during university, it’s easy to become dissociated from both: always slightly excluded from the freedoms of non-working students, but never able to fully relate to the lives of coworkers."
A leftist critique of Oxford teacher strikes
I hope that the teachers and other academic staff of this university will see this article as an olive branch. We can work together. We can share solidarity for the betterment of all. We can unite the disparate popular classes of the university for the common good.
What’s all the sub-fusc about?
Zara Arif explores whether Oxford students should continue to wear sub-fusc following a year of online exams.
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative finds gender disparities in access to education within poor households
Completed by the United Nations Development Program and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), the study found that one in six of the world’s poor live in households where no woman or girl has completed six years of education but at least one man or boy has.
Oxford’s economic impact: More than an academic cash cow?
"Initially it seems shockingly large how one single institution can contribute so much in one year. I could never imagine this amount of money, so much so that I had to double check the number of zeros you add on to a billion. It’s nine."
Six Oxford academics awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes
"Six early-career academics from Oxford University have been awarded £100,000 each in prize money from the Leverhulme Trust after being named amongst the recipients of the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prizes."
Oxford SU launch ‘It’s not enough’ campaign
"The only way we can enact real change is by holding the University to account and by pushing them to do better, because right now, it’s not enough."
University announces that it will hold 2021 interviews online
"The same consideration has been given to arrangements for the 2021 process, and it has been agreed that it is in everyone’s interests for all interviews to be online again this year."
