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Oxford is making you childish

With rooms cleaned, meals made, and jobs banned, Oxford students fail to experience true independence. Is it any wonder we're so childish?

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Is lifetime membership a perk or a problem?

I couldn’t help but notice the sea of grey-haired, geriatric, white, men (mostly), who somehow still had the right to vote at the Oxford Union.

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AI applications will quietly revive nepo hiring

When AI makes it impossible to tell what is real, recruiters will return to what (or who) they know. Is this a new age of nepotism?

Opinion Georgia Campbell -

In defence of the internship spreadsheet

It’s easy to criticise “internship culture”, with its nerves and competition, but it’s worth asking why it’s so contagious.

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Emily Packer asks The Independent's foreign correspondent if there is any way out for the Middle East.

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Opinion

Oxford is making you childish

Is lifetime membership a perk or a problem?

AI applications will quietly revive nepo hiring

In defence of the internship spreadsheet

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