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Oxford and UNESCO launch a free global course on AI and Rule of Law

The University of Oxford has paired up with UNESCO to launch a free global course titled “AI, Justice, and Rule of Law”. The Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) will teach those in legal settings to navigate the ethical, legal, and human rights challenges of AI.

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£26 million in visiting student tuition fees: Inside the finances of Oxford’s visiting student programme

Across the twelve colleges that disclosed figures, the total income from visiting student tuition fees from 2021 to 2025 amounted to £26,474,583.

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Tommy Robinson Union invite sparks controversy across University

The Oxford Union has invited Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who identifies as Tommy Robinson, to speak at a Week 5 debate on the motion ‘This house believes the West is right to be suspicious of Islam’. The invitation has generated backlash from University societies, senior Union officials, and Stand Up to Racism UK.

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Think tank publishes report calling for centralised Oxbridge admissions

The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has published a new report advocating for centralised admissions procedures for applications to the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge, arguing that the current collegiate system increases the opacity and complexity for applicants and their teachers.

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The World’s Oldest Missing Page

A missing page, dated November 411, has been reunited with the oldest dated Christian text in existence. Written by a scribe in Edessa (modern...

India Degree Offered at Oxford

The University of Oxford is to introduce an MSc in “Contemporary India” in response to growing academic interest in the country’s cultural and economic...

College football round up : 5th week, division 2

University 1 Merton-Mansfield 3 The epic race for promotion from Division Two took a huge twist on Friday, as Merton-Mansfield travelled to Univ’s Abingdon Road...

Single review: Editors : Push Your Head Toward The Air

This new single by Editors is quite an unexpected choice. When you think of Editors, you think searingly huge songs which surround and almost...

14-Year-Old Faces Rape Charges

A 14-year-old boy faces charges of rape and robbery after a 19-year-old woman was attacked in Cowley last Saturday. The boy cannot be named...

Book Review: The House at Midnight, by Lucie Whitehouse

Lucie Whitehouse’s debut novel, The House at Midnight, is certainly written with the commercial market in mind, but beneath the lengthy descriptions and clichés...

Update: Woman Raped in Cowley

A 19-year-old woman was sexually attacked in Cowley on Sunday while making her way home alone. At about half-past eight the victim, who is...

Listings 15th-21st Feb

15th FebFILM4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (15) Ultimate Picture Palace 1800Azur & Asmar: The Princes Quest (U) Phoenix 1345, 1700, 2015The Bucket...

Central Mosque Reviews Loudspeaker Plans

Senior officials at Oxford Central Mosque are revising their previous plans to broadcast the call to prayer from its minaret via loudspeakers.The mosque in...

Anger as driver who ran down student escapes jail sentence

Family and friends of Tsz Fok, the cyclist killed on his bike outside the Kings Arms, have expressed their anger that the driver of...

And the Oscar goes to…

It’s that time of year again. As expected, the writer’s strike was resolved, by coincidence, just in time to finalise the occasion of the...

The Rise of the Machines

Death of the critic? Tim Sherwin thinks not.At the end of 2006, readers of Time Magazine were presented with a metallic, mirrored surface under...

One Night Only: Started A Fire

It’s difficult to pin down exactly what it is about Yorkshire teens One Night Only that has led them to receive some quite considerable...

Top 10 Greatest Cricketing sledges

1. Richard Stobo to Danny Waugh, brother of Steve and Mark A Sydney grade game between Gordon and Bankstown. After Stobo beats Waugh’s outside...

Morrissey: Greatest Hits

Morrissey fans are born, not made. It’s in the genes. Morrissey is the eccentric cousin you love unconditionally, but when you take him to...

It’s just not quite cricket

I hate it. Match-fixing, chucking, drugs bans, Zimbabwe, The Oval snafu, last year’s abysmal World Cup, and now, racism. What next? Anything, it seems,...

Almighty row at Trinity as scholars refuse to say grace

A row has erupted at Trinity over whether or not students should have to say grace at meal times. Over the past few weeks...

Frenzied foot-tapping forty-somethings

It was never going to be an easy night for Richard Hawley. As ushers sell ice cream to the overwhelmingly middle-age, middle-class audience pre-show,...

‘The emphasis has been on fitness training and preliminary plans’

by Paul Rainford (Blues' Football Captain) It’s been a relatively quiet couple of weeks for the Blues football squad since our title clinching victory over...

Monkeys get one over on Tabs

Oxford’s Women’s 2nd XI took centre stage on Monday as they thrashed a strong Cambridge team 5-1, surprising even themselves as they dominated a...

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