Tag: Oxford University

An Oxford college has apologised for causing “distress” to students after attempting to organise a cannabis-themed party, which was accused of “cultural appropriation”.

Oxford University has issued a public apology after a photo of a female custodian cleaning the campus on International Women’s Day went viral on social media.

A new study from the Oxford Internet Institute claiming that conservatives and Trump supporters are more likely to share so-called “junk news” on social media has a hopelessly slanted methodology, which labels virtually every major conservative news site, ranging from National Review to Breitbart News, as “junk.”

Oxford University extended exam times in math and computer science last year by 15 minutes in a bid to boost grades of female students, it has emerged.

An investigation claims to have uncovered a Left-wing cabal in British academia, after 58 academics condemned colleague Nigel Biggar for suggesting Britons should feel temper their guilt about the British Empire with a little pride.

Oxford Professor Nigel Biggar is the latest target of an attack from the identity politics-driven left, being set upon by campaign groups for failing to adhere to the notion of post-colonial guilt. Prof. Biggar penned an article in the Times on November

An Oxford college has become the first to introduce compulsory racial awareness classes to ensure ethnic minorities are not offended.

Oxford students have reacted in anger after the director of the university’s Middle East Centre said mounting accusations of rape against Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan looks like “Europeans” wanting to “gang up against a Muslim intellectual”.

As French authorities prepare to hear more allegations of sexual assault against Swiss-born Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, his supporters have used social media networks to claim it is all part of a “Zionist plot.”

A member of staff at the United Kingdom’s top university has been suspended after it was alleged that he was arrested for terrorism offences and detained in Italy five years ago.

Senior members of Balliol College’s student body committee banned a Christian group from attending the Oxford college’s freshers’ fair after claiming it could lead to “potential for harm to freshers” because Christianity was ‘damaging’ and ‘an excuse for homophobia and neo-Colonialism’.

There’s a scene in the movie Straight Outta Compton – (it’s OK: you don’t need to like rap to get this analogy) – where Eazy-E goes to confront his manager Jerry Heller.

LONDON (AP) — An Oxford University student who stabbed her boyfriend with a bread knife will be able to avoid prison after receiving a suspended sentence Monday.

A survey of more than 20,000 people by the London School of Economics and the University of Oxford has revealed that a majority of Britons — even Remain voters — now want to see a so-called ‘Hard Brexit’.

One of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities has bowed to pressure from the ‘Why is my curriculum white?’ campaign which protests the alleged “Eurocentrism” of history teaching.

A campaign to include Israel in the global Rhodes Scholarship scheme has come to fruition with the announcement that Maayan Roichman and Nadav Lidor will be heading to Oxford University at the start of the new academic year.

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Oxford University has put out guidance advising colleges and academic departments to stop referring to staff by “gender-specific” titles such as Mr and Mrs.

Students at Oxford University have been told to use “ze” rather than “he” or “she” to eliminate discrimination against transgender people.

Student representatives at the country’s most prestigious university have voted to create a “Class Liberation Officer” to protect the working classes from “microaggressions” such as being called a “chav”.

EDINBURGH, Sept 22 (Reuters) – The University of Oxford has become the first British university to top the Times Higher Education’s global league table, knocking the California Institute of Technology into second place.

The Chancellor of Oxford University disagrees with diversity quotas. So SJWs want him gone.

Law students at Oxford University, one of the world’s leading law schools, are being warned before lectures on violent subject matter that they can leave if they find the content too “distressing.”

British universities are sliding down the world rankings as a result of increased pressure to focus on diversity rather than excellence, experts say. This year’s rankings, published by the Times Higher Education, showed of the leading British universities Cambridge has fallen

It’s one of the oldest degrees on offer in the world, but from next September undergraduate theology students at Oxford University will no longer have to study Christianity beyond the first year of their degree.  Instead they will be able

Accusations of anti-Semitism within the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) have left Ed Miliband “deeply disturbed” and led to his cancellation of an appearance to speak to students. The OULC, which counts a number of  politicians as former members, including Michael Foot and David Miliband,

The Co-Chair of the Oxford University Labour Club (OULC) has quit, claiming anti-Semitism and support of Islamist terror among left wing students is becoming routine. In a Facebook announcement, Alex Chalmers slammed “senior members of the club expressing their ‘solidarity’ with

(AFP) – The chancellor of Britain’s Oxford University on Tuesday warned history should not be rewritten to meet modern notions of what is acceptable, in an apparent rebuff to a student campaign to remove a statue of colonialist Cecil Rhodes.

Oxford University should ignore fashionable “moral vanity” and retain the statue of Cecil Rhodes that graces Oriel College according to Australia’s former conservative prime minister Tony Abbott. Mr. Abbott, a Rhodes scholar in the 1980s, has claimed that the university would damage

Students at Oxford University have succeeded in persuading Oriel College to remove a plaque in honour of Cecil Rhodes, an imperialist the university has deemed racist. The College has also applied to the local council for permission to remove a

Big Oil is the new Big Tobacco and must be destroyed in the courts on RICO charges. This is the latest big idea in environmental circles – and it didn’t come from nowhere. It was in fact the invention of

Students at the University of Oxford will hold a demonstration to “demand the glorifying statue of Cecil Rhodes – a brutal, racist colonial oppressor – be taken down” from a historic, grade one listed building. The protest has been organised

A high profile student activist who has campaigned against “rape culture” has resigned from all political position and barred herself from National Union of Students (NUS) events and safe spaces because she is “unsafe.” She said she had “failed to

Some will say the relentlessly left wing and snobbish attitude of British universities is a recent phenomenon, but the story of Margaret Thatcher’s snub from the University of Oxford shows otherwise. A lot has been written about the ideological purity

It’s a beautiful sunny afternoon in the summer of 1985 and three undergraduates are sitting cross-legged in an oak-panelled room high above one of Oxford’s grandest college quads stoned out of their brains on marijuana. Two of us, both called James, are

Britain’s Prime Minister, David Cameron, placed a “private part” of his body inside the head of a dead pig, according to sensational claims made in a new book into the man’s life, authored by former Conservative Party peer and donor Michael

The EU-owned European Investment Bank (EIB) today announced that it is handing Oxford University a £200 million loan – its largest ever single loan to a European university. The money will be spent on new facilities and on refurbishing existing

Oxford students have begun a campaign to have a “racist” 100-year-old statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from a grade II listed building, and to “decolonise” the “Eurocentric” curriculum. Student radicals claim the statue of the British businessman, mining magnate, philanthropist

A self-styled ‘queer and trans group’ stands accused of censorship and racism after white gay and Jewish students were booted out of the “No HeterOx” organising page which blasts the “monotony of cisheterosexism”. According to Cherwell, the No HeterOx Facebook group

Kanye West delivered a guest lecture to 350 students at Oxford University on Monday afternoon, speaking candidly about his music, his close relationship with President Obama, and his ego.