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

A pilot scheme, launched in 2025, allows OpenAI to use materials from the Bodleian Library to train its models, documents obtained by The Guardian and seen by Cherwell show.

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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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Review: Quills

Oxford’s flirtation with the darker side of human nature has reached its climax this week with the staging of Quills. The play explores the...

Review: The Turn of the Screw

Turn of the Screw, Hertford College chapel 13/2/2008 Many of us cannot resist the thrill of a supernatural tale. For some this...

C24 gigging and clubbing roundup, part II

Helena Zaba and Rachel Williams catch up with the crowd outside British Sea Power at the Academy, check out the first round of this...

Justice interview

French duo Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Auge are who they say they are. They are not Daft Punk, they are not electronic music,...

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,...

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