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Oxford university new plaque at condemned Rhodes statue describes mogul as ‘committed colonialist’ & exploiter of Africans

Last week Oriel College, Oxford erected a plaque for a statue of Cecil Rhodes which sits on the main façade…

3 years ago

HIV vaccine trial launched at University of Oxford in bid to end ‘40-year wait’

The trial, called HIV-CORE 0052, aims to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of the HIVconsvX vaccine, the University said.…

3 years ago

Oxford University may enlist ‘SENSITIVITY READERS’ to censor student publications to protect readers from being offended – media

Oxford’s governing student council overwhelmingly passed a motion last month to allow the student union (SU) to set up a…

3 years ago

Student who led Oxford vote to ‘cancel’ the Queen as symbol of ‘colonial history’ turns out to be AMERICAN

Matthew Katzman, 25, graduated from Stanford University and is now a doctoral student in “complexity theory,” British newspapers reported on…

3 years ago

Oxford secretly used cell phone data to track millions as part of government-ordered vaccination study – media

The Telegraph cited a report by the Independent Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B) which said researchers from the…

3 years ago

Vaccine rollout will trigger new Covid variants, Oxford scientist warns, adding ‘new layer of complexity’ to pandemic fight

Speaking to the UK Commons Science and Technology Committee on Wednesday, Professor Sir John Bell, Oxford’s regius professor of medicine,…

3 years ago

Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine approved for use in the UK

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) gave the go-ahead as part of a “rolling review,” a fast-track process…

3 years ago

Oxford and AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine to be trialed AGAIN amid mounting questions over dosage issues

The British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant is to run a fresh trial of its candidate vaccine at a lower dosage, which the…

3 years ago

Brazilian volunteer in Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine trial DIES, authorities say

Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (Agencia Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria, ANVISA), said on Wednesday that it was informed of the…

4 years ago

Oxford University anonymously interviews RT journos, reveals we have ‘doubts about the West.’ In other news, water is wet.

In December 2018 I received a message on LinkedIn, the world’s most boring social network. It was from Mona Elswah,…

4 years ago