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Apr 30, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Olly DeHerrera
Oxford’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) report for 2022-2023 has revealed that the University has not submitted an application to Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index for the second year in a row but suggested it intends to in the future.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Olly DeHerrera
On the 25th of April, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi addressed an audience of students at the O’Reilly Theatre at Keble College, organised by OxfordSpeaks. Pelosi served as the 52nd Speaker of the US House of Representatives between 2007-2011 and 2019-2023. She is the only woman to have held this position and currently represents California’s 11th congressional district.
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Olly DeHerrera
A leaked email from the University of Oxford has revealed that “members of legislatures or those active in politics” will be barred from running for Oxford University chancellor, possibly disqualifying Boris Johnson and Theresa May as speculated candidates. Oxford’s current Chancellor, Lord Christopher Patten, announced in February that he will be stepping down after 21 years of service.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Olly DeHerrera
Just Stop Oil had the culinary world clamouring this with after making the remarkable choice to lather the Mona Lisa with a extra chunky looking Country Vegetable soup. This display is just the latest development in an emerging art of pairing liquid condiments with masterpieces of art. Our experts have prepared a thought-out list of art masterpieces and what soup a truly cultured individual would throw at them: for the refined gastro artistico reader.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Olly DeHerrera
Two Oxford academics have won their claim for employee status following an employment tribunal held in January at Reading Tribunal Hearing Centre. Rebecca Abrams and Alice Jolly, both award-winning novelists, had taught for 15 years on Oxfordâs MSt Creative Writing course, a coveted program which attracts an average of 345 applicants annually.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Olly DeHerrera
Sixty UK Universities, including Oxford and Cambridge, have put forward a “request for proposals” (RfP) aimed at finding more environmentally sustainable investment opportunities.
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Feb 17, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Olly DeHerrera
This yearâs theme for Holocaust Memorial Day was the fragility of peace, something heavy on the British Jewish consciousness in a climate where it often feels as if people have chosen to forget Britain’s proximity to the Holocaust with its own Fascist history. Tracey Anne Oberman spoke on this tension with her adaptation of Shakespeareâs Merchant of Venice, set in 1930âs East London, where her own grandma resisted Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists movement.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Olly DeHerrera
Former Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, visited Oxford on 5th February to address students. His appearance was organised by Oxford Speaks in association with the Oxford Diplomatic Society as part of their ongoing series of Israel-Palestine talks. Olmert served as head of the Israeli Parliament between 2006 and 2009.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Olly DeHerrera
Indigenous readers please note that this article contains the name of someone who has passed away. This three-and-a-half-hour film epic on the 1920’s Osage Nation murders is set to be the last major work of the now 80-year-old director, Martin Scorsese. My own interest in this film had little to do with the legacy of Scorsese, but an anxiously earnest investment in how Native North Americans and our stories are represented in the mainstream.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
oxfordstudent.com | Olly DeHerrera
OxYou is satirical and should not be taken as defamatory, nor does it reflect any political stance of the Oxford Student. The new public enquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the Cummings and goings of a Westminster WhatsApp group. The previously secretive group chats were exposed by former Chief Adviser turned whistle-blower Dominic Cummings after he and other ministers got fed up with being asked to read over Hancock’s applications to reality shows.
