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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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BCG vaccine

A recent study led by Dr AjitLalvani, of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, has revealed that theBCG vaccine may not just prevent the...

Shelling out for Shelley

The Bodleian library and University College have acquired a new group ofletters written by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who was a undergraduate at...

Physics prize for Don

Kenneth Peach, Visiting Professorof Physics at Oxford University and Director of the John Adams Institutefor Accelerator Science, has been awarded the prestigious Rutherford Medal...

In from the streets

We carried on as best as we could. My boyfriend became my full-time carer. I continued working but I was having seizures in front...

Eat: Chutney’s

Where to go… for a curry without the crew-dateWhere: Chutney’sWhy: The kind of cosy setting you would describe as ‘intimate’, with a colourful modern...

Obituary: the gap year

The life of the Gap Year, though short (but such an amazing experience) was a blessing to all of us - temping agencies in particular, as...

League opens with goalfest

The college football season got off to a scorching start last Wednesday with twenty-five goals scored in the first four Premier League matches. The...

Blues kick through Bees

Oxford 33Pertemps Bees 21The Blues bounced back from a difficult last week with a much improved performance to beat semi-professional Pertemps Bees 33-21 at...

Exeter blown apart by Hall in point-a-minute thriller

Exeter 15Teddy Hall 76Teddy Hall continued their assault on the college rugby league with an embarrassingly one-sided victory over Exeter. The forwards set up...

Queen’s start season in style

Queen’s 4Corpus/Wadham 1Queen’s made a convincing start to their college hockey season with 4-1 defeat of Corpus/Wadham on Saturday. Queen’s dominated territory and possession,...

Unity and pride

They walked onto the podium wearing black socks and no shoes, to symbolise black poverty, and the badges of the Olympic Project for Human...

What’s all this fuss about Andy Murray for?

The frenzy surrounding Andy Murray’s emergence at Wimbledon earlier this year was overwhelming. You could hardly open a newspaper without seeing his face gurning...

Des Lynam: Dreamboat of the Desperate Housewife

Even for a man who’s been to seven Olympic games, numerous Wimbeldons and has travelled to World Cups and European Championships, October is going...

Passe Notes: The Oxford Union

So, how long do we have to stand in this queue?Well, everyone in Oxford wants to see the no confidence debate. Unless their lack...

Building a reputation

Think of the one-man band and if you’re like me you’ll think of Dick van Dyke’s Bert in Mary Poppins, stamping and flapping his...

Live

Paul LewisThe Sheldonian Theatre13 OctoberPaul Lewis has won much praise from critics for his CDs of the sonatas of Schubert, and rose to prominence...

Not such great Scots

El PresidenteEl Presidenteout24 OctoberSince Franz Ferdinand smashed into the mainstream, the British music press has been looking to the Scots for the new band...

Rachmaninov piano concertos Nos. 1 & 2

In 2004, Leif Ove Andsnes won a Gramophone Award for his coupling of piano concertos by Grieg and Schumann with the Berlin Philharmonic.Unfortunately, for...

Z

ZMy Morning Jacketout nowDespite universal critical acclaim and supporting slots for the likes of Idlewild and the Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket are a...

Special honour for Pinteresque pretensions

Controversial, out-spoken and recently described as “a fully paid-up member of the awkward squad”, Harold Pinter was never going to accept the Nobel Prize...

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