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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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Drama Review: Angels in America

By Srijanee Bhattacharyya Is Angels in America, a Pulitzer prize-winning drama by Tony Kushner set during the Reagan era staged at the ‘site-specific’...

Blues fail to match Welsh class

Oxford 12 - 52 Ospreys A PACKED house braved the bitterly cold elements on a crisp and clear Monday night to see the Oxford Blues...

Hall need Ielpo to save them from defeat

CHERWELL school pitches are often the venue for hard fought conker fights, although they have rarely witnessed a battle of this intensity.Before the game,...

New scrape draw against Brasenose

TOUTED as potential winners of the Premier Division at the start of term, New College have since struggled to pull off an uninspiring draw...

Diary of a captain – Blues lacrosse

NINE hundred years of heritage. A century of lacrosse. A dark blue side which has lost half its winning varsity squad. This was the...

Triple promotion is perfect for ChCh

IN a thrilling game against their main division two rivals, played with plenty of aggression and no small measure of skill, the Christ Church...

Teddies a picnic for Magdalen

ON a sunny October afternoon in the University Parks, newly promoted Magdalen showed the first division that they are here to stay with a...

Long-awaited victory for Blues

THE Oxford Women’s Blues Football team took on Bedford Women’s Firsts on Wednesday afternoon at their home pitches of Marston. After only losses so...

Fixtures and Results

BLUES FOOTBALLResultsBlues 2-2 WorcesterWomen’s Blues 3-0 BedfordCOLLEGE FOOTBALLPremier DivisionResultsWorcester 3-0 OrielWadham 1-2 St Anne’sJesus 2-1 LincolnBrasenose 2-2 NewJesus 2-1 NewBrasenose 1-1 OrielWednesday 7th NovemberNew...

Chris Huhne MP on David Cameron, the press and that Isis article

Despite being 12 days into his second bid for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats, with the odds already stacked heavily against him, Chris...

Suffering in silence

IN 1998, two professional psychologists revealed that one in three female Oxford students had suffered from some form of eating disorder. Following a spate...

Senior tutors need to end their Norrington fixation

Reading last week’s Cherwell, you would be forgiven for expecting this to be another OUSU campaign stump speech. But you are not going to...

Oxford University to Establish a New Business School in India

Oxford University are set to establish a new business school in India, it emerged on Friday. The project will allow researchers to draw on resources, creating...

Pubcast Week Four: Chanya Button, Angels in America, Small Change

This week, Ben Lafferty and Rob Morgan interview Chanya Button, director of Angels in America at the Union, and review Angels in America and...

Sex and Scandal in Ballet

by Emma WhipdayPicture the scene. Paris, 1912. Hundreds of spectators are seated in the Théâtre du Châtelet to watch a new Russian ballet scored...

Film Review: I Do

by Rosie FearonIf you strip I Do down to its fundamental components it can be probably best be summarised as Pretty Woman seen through...

Film Review: A Crude Awakening

by Emma ButterfieldThis is not porn. Cherwell might sign its editor up to an escort agency, but it hasn’t yet sunk to reviewing porn....

Sceneplay: Being John Malkovitch

by Hilary AkedIn a film directed by Spike Jonze with a flawless screenplay by Charlie Kaufman, you learn to expect some truly strange and...

Album Review: The Libertines, Best Of

by Emma Butterfield Pete Doherty. The Libertines. Made your mind up already? The album contains no unreleased material, and I imagine the rationale behind...

Album Review: Eddie Vedder, Into the Wild

by Michael BennettClocking in at just 33 minutes, Into the Wild is disappointingly short. It wasn’t just the disappointment of good music coming to...

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