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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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Fiction prize for St Anne’s Professor

Patrick McGuinness wins Writer’s Guild Award for novel

Harry Potter Society ‘Yule Ball’ deemed a success

Yule Ball’ includes live owl show, Gringotts Casino, palm reading and pin the sock on Dobby

Bill Bailey to host ‘Orange Tie’ ball

Charity ball to be held at Oxford Castle Quarter for Sumatran primates

Exam Regulations criticised as ‘a waste of money and paper’

OUSU and JCRs advocate discarding the University's 'Grey Book' for an online-only version

Oxford research condemns drinking whilst pregnant

Unviersity researchers confirm that alcohol negatively effects foetal development

‘Lolz’ added to Oxford English Dictionary

Words including 'lolz' and 'tweeps' added to OED

Oxord 02 Academy appeal fails

02 plan to increase opening hours rejected by Council

New rooms for Corpus Students

Corpus Christi college to build new accommodation on Park End St

St Hugh’s to move location to Christ Church Meadow

JCR votes to move college to Christ Church Meadow to avoid derisive jokes about distance from city centre

Private Schools ‘demonised’ by politicians

Chair of headteachers’ conference complains over the 'demonisation' of private schools

Rowing suspended with multiple collisions

The Christ Church Regatta, the annual rowing competition for novices, had to be suspended on Wednesday and Thursday due to poor weather.

Anthony Stansfeld elected PCC

Anthony Stansfeld, the Conservative party candidate, has been elected Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) for Thames Valley.

Student anger unabated

Two years after fees protest in 2010, Oxford students travel to London to protest once more

Hugh Grant steals hearts at Hertford

Love Actually actor speaks at Hertford debate on press ethics

Petition launched against ‘academic racism’ at Oxbridge

Russell Group university researchers call on Oxford and Cambridge to stop excluding black academics

Exeter College pays tribute to student

Exeter College mourns the death of one of its students

Bo Guagua threatened by Neil Heywood

Details have come to light during the trial of Guagua's mother over Neil Heywood's murder.

Exeter hosts ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy Day’

Exeter starts morale-boosting event to banish Fifth Week Blues.

Oxford academics criticise Higher Education Reform

Prominent UK intellectuals, including many with ties to Oxford, form The Council for the Defence of British Universities, a campaign to 'defend' universities.

250 year-old opera revived

St Hilda's Director of Music, Jonathan Williams, reconstructs score of Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera AnacrÃ©on and plays it in Oxford

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