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Oxford partnership allows OpenAI to use rare Bodleian texts to train ChatGPT

A pilot project, launched in 2025, allows OpenAI to use obscure Bodleian library material, including a collection of Tudor ballads, to train its models, as shown in documents seen by Cherwell.

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Oxford falls to lowest ever spot in The Times UK University Guide 2027

The University of Oxford has placed fifth in The Times’s 2027 UK university rankings, falling from joint fourth with the University of Cambridge last year. This marks Oxford’s lowest ranking in the guide’s 33 year history and only the second time the University has not been in the top three.

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Protest held outside Town Hall over sale of Council-owned building to St Peter’s

A protest took place today outside Oxford Town Hall against Oxford City Council’s plan to sell 11 New Road to St Peter’s College, which would convert most of the building into student housing.

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Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after...

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Anger over Exeter’s plan to ban smoking in college

Students have expressed anger over Exeter's move to prohibit smoking anywhere on its Turl Street site

Oxford’s first black graduate celebrated – but how much still needs to change?

A plaque was unveiled at University College for Christian Cole, Oxford's first black graduate, who matriculated in 1873 to read Classics

St. Hugh’s drops Aung San Suu Kyi’s name from common room

The JCR voted to rename their Aung San Suu Kyi room last night due to recent controversies in Myanmar

Oxford publishes sample interview materials

University seeks to demystify admissions process

New Jesus fresher: Ex-Australian PM Kevin Rudd

Rudd will study for a DPhil on Chinese President Xi Jinping

Oxford to become first city to ban all polluting vehicles

Council rules out special treatment for students arriving at affected colleges

Christ Church bids au revoir to post-bop drunkenness

The college used post-bop croissants to sober up students

Oxford worst UK city for bike theft

Bike crime continues to rise in Oxford with 932 bike thefts last year

Drunk Tory official defaces church

OUCA official tore down papal flag after drinking event, sparking allegations of club's anti-Catholicism

University democracy “hasn’t been working well”, says Louise Richardson

The vice-chancellor criticised University staff for their "self-interest" and for being uninterested in university democracy

Oxford graduates establish black alumni network

The access scheme will encourage more black teenagers to apply to the University

University Press defends ‘sex scenes’ in kids books

Oxford University Press’ children series comes under fire for scenes supposedly depicting dogging

Christian Union banned from Balliol freshers’ fair

A JCR motion has condemned the move as a “violation of free speech”

Christ Church students in uproar over new ‘canteen-style’ informal hall

Students are planning a boycott of hall after controversial plans to change informal hall to a canteen service leaked through an Oxfeud post

Aung San Suu Kyi stripped of ‘Freedom of Oxford’ title

Council removes honour in light of treatment of Rohingya minority in Myanmar

Oxford Union under fire for male-dominated term card

Union told to improve diversity with just 12 of its 61 speakers women

Planning application withdrawn, beloved nightclub Cellar is ‘saved’

The club heralds a "fantastic outcome" after the planning application to turn it into retail space was withdrawn

Tributes paid to Brasenose student found dead at Westgate site

Max Mian was found early on Monday morning in a death that is not currently being treated as suspicious

University leaks names of bursary recipients

Email accidentally reveals names of students receiving hardship fund

Leaked: Bullingdon Club invitation letter

The letter inviting a current senior member of the Bullingdon Club was found under their bed

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