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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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Q&A with Blues captain Paul Rainford

1) You played in the game last year - how much are you looking forward to being the man leading the team out this...

Sanctum amid the Spires

Cherwell investigates the University’s role in introducing refugees to higher learning in both past and present.

Nobel laureate condemns God study funded by US Christian

A row has erupted after a Nobel Prize winning scientist attacked new Oxford research funded by an institution that he claims is “attempting to...

Album Review: The Cardigans – Best Of

Nothing good ever came out of Sweden, to which the resounding cry of, ‘Abba’ hails forth in angelic proclamation from the heavenly hosts of...

The Local: Fuse @ Carling Academy

There’s been one of those annoying little notes flashing up on my Facebook for weeks: Fuse, promising thrills and spills and dancing grooves to...

Christ Church and Magdalen challenge for dominance

The college rowing season got off to a belated start due to the cancellation of the Christ Church regatta, but needed no time to...

Varsity victory for Oxford’s Karting team

Oxford stormed to their fifth consecutive Varsity victory, with Oxford A taking the win by over a lap from Cambridge A at the sunny...

Kick out the rubbish: Christ Church says no to plastic bags

A massive plastic bag sculpture was laid out in Christ Church’s Peckwater Quad this weekend, as part of an ongoing campaign to raise environmental...

Album Review: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Real Emotional Trash

Real Emotional Trash is a pithy summation of the music Stephen Malkmus has been making for the last sixteen years. As part of 90s...

The Madness … And Genius

In the autumn of 1797 a person from Porlock knocked on the door of a remote farm on Exmoor. He received no answer. He...

Comment: An End to Oxford Application Fees?

If it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, is it a duck? Yes. So if there is something that looks...

Gee Whiz: Elephants buzz off

Enter the elephant, a towering colossus, gigantic in strength, lording over the beasts of the forest. Enter his opponent: the bee, a piddling nonentity....

Blues footballers prepare to face Tabs

One month from today, on Saturday 29th March 2008, Oxford take on Cambridge at Craven Cottage in the 124th Varsity Match. Coached by ex-Arsenal...

Cinecism: Tim Burton

You know a Tim Burton film as soon as you see it. The gothic undertones of all his work seep onto the screen to...

The Penny Drops

Union Returning Officer resigns amid complaints of intimidation and "interrogation-style knifing sessions"Union Returning Officer Cameron Penny resigned on Wednesday amidst allegations that he intimidated...

Student Soapboax

For many of us (second year lawyers in particular) last term was punctuated by corporate events in which representatives of the leading firms came...

The Boss Of It All

3/5 ‘Here comes a film, and if it already looks a bit weird, hang in there, because anyone can see it… It’s a comedy, and...

Filth bouncers further accusations of violence

Filth bouncers have been accused of violence against students for the second time in two weeks, after a first year Christ Church student claimed...

Comment: Unfair Stereotypes for Idea Idols

It saddened me to read the recent editorial, ‘Idea Idle’, as I feel entrepreneurship needs to be encouraged and not belittled.The Delboy model of...

Editorial: Hail to the Chief

Seventh week editorials have in the past been used to advocate a certain Presidential candidate over another. A year ago, this space was used...

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