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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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Oxford Mentor Scheme for Black Students

US human rights activist Rev Jesse Jackson is heading up a campaign to encourage more black students to apply to Oxford.The project, which will...

Exhibition Review: Chinese Prints at the Ashmolean

by Griselda Murray BrownThe Ashmolean’s latest exhibition will not satisfy the Sunday afternoon escapist’s desire for a display of Oriental beauty or delicate depictions...

Drama Review: Rabbit

by James TaylorBella (Harry Creelman) is celebrating her twenty-ninth birthday with a group of friends who are intricately connected in a web of sexual...

Two Men Hospitalised After Chemical Contamination

Two men were contaminated with chemical powder earlier this week, after a drum of waste products began to leak behind a shop in Oxfordshire. The incident...

9/11: 18 years on

Today marks 18 years since the Berlin Wall fell, and the national debate — are things better for it? — rolls absurdly on. As...

The corporation strikes back

Sara-Christine Gemson looks ta the troubles befalling Oxfprd's small businesses Coming back from the summer vacation, you may have noticed the addition of the Gourmet...

Why do we have Phobias?

Ten percent of adults suffer from a phobia – that is, “an uncontrollable, irrational and persistent fear of a specific object, situation or activity”....

Flip Side: Boarding School

Katie Duval goes jolly hockey sticks for leaving home earlyPerhaps for you ‘boarding school’ inspires the image of eccentric young Englishmen with wing collars...

Laura Linney

You might not immediately be able to put a face to the name ‘Laura Linney’. And you wouldn’t be the only one, since despite...

Fuck the word police

By Daisy Johnson The word ‘fuck’ retains its official status as one of the foremost ‘taboo words’ in the English language, ranking third after those...

Merton Mayhem

While you are gently sleeping on a Saturday night in late October (OK, fine, while your feet are sticking to the floor in The...

How to be a rahver

It is a sad fact that Oxford is not known for its raving. Books, yes. Archaic traditions, yes. Grimy drug-fuelled hedonism, no. We simply...

Adaptation

No matter how much you rave about how good – or bad – an adaptation is, you can almost always expect the same response:...

Sceneplay: The Awful Truth

by Laura WilliamsFrom the 1930s until as late as the mid-’60s, American movies were subject to a production code that imposed massive restrictions upon...

The London Film Festival

by Mary WaireriThe Times BFI London Film Festival is by far and away Britain’s biggest public film event. The Festival is known for providing...

Ringing the changes

Waking on a Sunday morning in Oxford, vaguely hazy about a bop the night before, the gentle tinkle of bells filters across Radcliffe Square...

Film Review: In Memory of Me

by Kristen DiLemnoIn the stark halls of an Italian monastery, selfhood and spirituality are locked in a silent battle. Directed by Saverio Costanzo, In...

Album review: Sigur Ros, Hvarf-Heim

*** After the well-earned success of 2005’s Takk (off the back of Planet Earth-soundtracking song ‘Hoppípolla’), many bands would have sought to cement their status...

Genre Bending: Tango

Tango music belongs, for most of us, in a completely different world. It conjures images of dark cafés, hot latin summers and a dance...

Film Review: Air Guitar Nation

by Chris CoolingAir guitar is weird. That is the first thing that you will think on watching this docu-film. All of us are probably...

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