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Jacinda Ardern and eight others awarded with honorary degrees

The recipients include former New Zealand Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern; actress and theatre director Adjoa Andoh MBE; and literary critic and host of Finding Your Roots Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Tommy Robinson’s invitation to Oxford Union met with protest: Live updates

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, otherwise known as Tommy Robinson, is due to speak at the Oxford Union at 8.30 pm this evening at a debate on the motion “This House Believes the West is Right to be Suspicious of Islam”. The event has drawn condemnation from University societies, local politicians, and local faith leaders.

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Home Office proposes doubling of Campsfield capacity

The Home Office has proposed a second phase of development to the Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), increasing its capacity from 160 to 400 beds.

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New Oxford campaign seeks to demystify genetic and neurological conditions using animations

A new educational campaign developed by the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Oxford aims to make neurodevelopmental disorders easier to understand through a series of animated videos.

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Oxford most popular UK university on Wikipedia

Oxford University is the most visited UK university Wikipedia page of 2023. It was viewed more than 1.4 million times last year, with an average of more than four thousand people googling the University every day.

SU candidates express concern over alleged secret slate

Cherwell has investigated allegations that a secret slate coordinated endorsements across various SU campaigns – a tactic that is strictly forbidden by the SU....

BREAKING: Addi Haran elected SU President

Addi Haran has been elected as President of the Student Union for the academic year 2024. The results for the remaining five sabbatical positions were...

Jacob Rees-Mogg, Madeline Argy, and Philip Wang to speak at Oxford Union

Cherwell can exclusively reveal three new speakers for the Oxford Union this term. Addressing the Union this month will be politician Jacob Rees-Mogg, internet personality Madeline Argy, and comedian Phil Wang.

Ethics concerns over Oxford University Press journal study based on Uyghur DNA

Oxford University Press (OUP), a department of the University of Oxford, is facing scrutiny after a study published by one of its journals was flagged for using DNA collected from the Uyghur population in Xinjiang. Two further studies by Chinese researchers, published by the same journal under OUP, are also suspected of violating ethics standards.

Pink Week 2024

Since 2016, Oxford Pink Week has taken place every year during the last week of January. A student-run initiative supporting breast cancer charities, it raised over £25,000 in 2023 and is expected to do so again this year.

New Kazakh language program to be offered at the University of Oxford

On 26 January, the University of Oxford signed an agreement with the Kazakh Ministry of Science and Higher Education with plans to launch a...

Ticket reselling attracts controversy as college balls sell out in seconds

As ball season approaches, the popularity of several commemoration balls has skyrocketed since previous years, leaving hundreds of would-be attendees scrambling for tickets and causing controversy over ticket reselling on online platforms like Oxtickets.

Plans approved for new student accommodation on Magdalen Street

The Oxford City Planning Committee has approved a proposal to partially convert the iconic Oxenford House building on Magdalen Street, directly above the burger chain Five Guys, into a student accommodation block.

New exhibition reinterpreting colonial records from Bodleian archive opens in Weston Library

A new exhibition has opened in Weston Library’s Blackwell Hall as part of a collaboration between the Bodleian Libraries and British opera singer Peter...

Eggs of butterfly thought to be almost extinct found in Oxfordshire

On 16 January, staff and volunteers from the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) discovered approximately two hundred brown hairstreak butterfly eggs. The...

Oxfordshire County Council to decide on expansion of Zero Emission Zone

A decision on the expansion of the Zero Emission Zone (ZEZ) is expected in the Spring at a meeting of the county council’s cabinet....

Oxford Literary Festival returns as it launches 2024 programme

The Oxford Literary Festival is returning this year with events aimed at attracting younger festival goers and addressing the global issue of food insecurity....

UCAS data reveals Oxbridge to have fewest applicants among UK Russell Group

The publication of UCAS’s 2023 end-of-cycle data showed that Oxford and Cambridge are the least popular among the UK’s 24 Russell Group universities. Cambridge had...

University Chancellor Lord Patten announces retirement

University of Oxford Chancellor Lord Christopher Patten has publicly announced his wish to retire at the end of the 2023-24 academic year, ending his...

It’s not whether you rusticate, it’s where: Suspension of studies at Oxford

Oxford has one of the lowest drop-out rates in the country, with around 0.9% of admissions not completing a degree, much lower than the UK average of 5.3%. Absent from the University’s “facts and figures” section is the number of students each year who suspend their study – or “rusticate” as it’s more commonly known.

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Jacinda Ardern and eight others awarded with honorary degrees

Tommy Robinson’s invitation to Oxford Union met with protest: Live updates

Home Office proposes doubling of Campsfield capacity

New Oxford campaign seeks to demystify genetic and neurological conditions using animations

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