As we reach stage one of Boris Johnson’s roadmap for lifting lockdown on 29th March, The Oxford Blue takes a look at the incoming changes and how they have been received by the students at the University of Oxford. Just over a year after the start of the initial nationwide lockdown, England is seeing an Read More…
Students for Uyghurs Oxford is the Oxford branch of the nationwide Students for Uyghurs campaign, with the collective aim of spreading awareness of the human rights abuses taking place against the Uyghur people. “This is not performative activism – students are actively campaigning for meaningful change”. This collective of Oxford University students have united to Read More…
Shariq Haidery sits down with The Oxford Blue to talk about how his background as a Northern BAME student as shaped his Oxford experience during another pandemic-hit term.
“Being the only British-Pakistani student at my college does weigh quite heavily on my mind. I constantly feel this pressure to represent all my desi people out there.”
Oxford University has renamed the Wykeham chair of physics to the Tencent-Wykeham professorship, and in return are set to receive a £700,000 donation from Chinese company Tencent. This professorship, named after Bishop William of Wykeham who founded New College in 1379, was established in 1900 as part of a cohort of professorships in the bishop’s Read More…
As demonstrations and global condemnations continue in response to the recent coup in Myanmar, The Oxford Blue takes a look at the events so far and explore Aung San Suu Kyi’s connection to Oxford.
Earlier this week, Lady Margaret Hall’s JCR executives released a statement of support for Gracie Oddie-James, who was subjected to racial abuse by members of the Christ Church JCR in Michaelmas last year.
“You will own nothing, and you will be happy.” Or at least, that’s what the World Economic Forum (WEF) says about “The Great Reset”, which is planned to bring sweeping changes to the world by 2030. As the World Economic Forum has its Davos Agenda meeting this week, we’re going to break down the centre Read More…
Staff in humanities faculties across Oxford have called for the hiring of a race champion to assist in the dismantling of systemic issues at Oxford, internal documents have revealed. As a response to the murder of George Floyd – a response seen as lacklustre by many students – academics proposed the recruitment of an expert Read More…
A motion by St Hugh’s JCR to remove beef and lamb from the college’s hall menu has passed by 70 votes to 63, The Oxford Blue has found. This follows the Student Union’s decision to remove beef and lamb from University canteens, as well as Christ Church College making vegetarianism their default option for student Read More…
The Churchill Hospital in Oxford became the first in the UK to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. 82 year-old Brian Pinker was the first to receive the initial dose on Monday morning, in another landmark moment in the fight against Covid-19. The long-awaited Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was delivered to Oxfordshire hospitals on Sunday, after approval by the Read More…