The University of Oxford yesterday announced that £100m is being donated by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s company INEOS to fund the creation of a new institute researching antimicrobial resistance, called The INEOS Oxford Institute for AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance) Research.
Varsity Trip, the organisers of an annual ski trip for Oxford and Cambridge students, have taken the decision to cancel their planned March 2021 trip to France. The decision comes in light of “ongoing French Ski Resort closures, travel restrictions and the new variants of Covid-19”. The self-proclaimed “world’s largest ski trip”, which can trace Read More…
Oxford City Council (OCC) has announced that it expects 20 hotel rooms to be made available to be used as emergency shelter until the end of March for people sleeping rough in Oxford.
Image Source: Creative Commons A statement has been released by Christ Church JCR executive committee, and a testimony from the victim, after a verbal racial abuse incident that happened in November. Gracie Oddie-James, a Christ Church undergraduate from an ethnic minority background, was subject to a racial slur (n-word) from a fellow student in front Read More…
Oxford SU last week launched a campaign in response to the University of Oxford’s plans for how teaching and examinations will proceed in a second academic year affected by the coronavirus pandemic. The ‘Fair Outcomes for Students’ campaign is designed to ensure that students are not disadvantaged individually, or at a cohort level, as a Read More…
It is an understatement to say that we are living in extraordinary times. Last March, the UK, along with the rest of the world, came to a grinding halt at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as we tried to cope with a crisis that was entirely without precedent. The Prime Minister told us then Read More…
The University has confirmed that it will not adopt a ‘safety net’ for students sitting exams in Trinity of this year. Following the University’s closure last spring due to the coronavirus pandemic, it adopted a safety net for all finalist undergraduates so that they would not receive a class mark lower than that which they had Read More…
Moving online to overcome coronavirus restrictions, the Oxford Forum for International Development (OxFID) has revealed the three sub-themes which it will be focusing on in this year’s conference. This event will address all of the themes in detail through opportunities for discussion and also by hearing from guest speakers prominent in their fields. Speakers will Read More…
New College has told students planning to return to College not to do so for the time being because “there are far too many names for us to be able to accommodate you all”. The email to students informing them of this news said that even those with “prior approval must not” return “unless you Read More…
Pharmacies that have made themselves available to help the Government hit its target of delivering around thirteen million shots of a coronavirus vaccine by mid-February will be used, it has been announced. Operating from pharmacy buildings themselves, as well as from around 200 special sites being investigated by the Government for potential use, pharmacy staff Read More…