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How UK’s university towns became a draw for Indian students in summer

Every August, a quiet transformation takes place in Oxford. The undergraduates are gone, the colleges have exhaled, and in their place arrive young students from Mumbai, Delhi, Lagos, and Seoul, cycling along the Cherwell, debating ideas in wood-panelled seminar rooms, and doing something that would otherwise remain entirely out of…

The Times of India

Abstract erotica, Japanese giants face off and spring arrives in Oxford – the week in art

Alexis Ralaivao’s provocative paintings, Hiroshige and Hokusai in perspective and a grand survey of flowers in fine art – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

BBC loses Boat Race broadcast rights after nearly a century

Channel 4 wins the television rights while Times Radio will also carry coverage, as the BBC steps away from the historic Oxford-Cambridge race

Evening Standard

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Jon Anderson announces more UK live shows for September

Former Yes singer Jon Anderson will now play shows in Brighton, Oxford, Nottingham and Portsmouth

Louder

Oxford museum set to return 500-year-old bronze statue taken from Tamil Nadu temple

A 16th-century bronze statue of Saint Tirumankai Alvar, taken from a Tamil Nadu temple, is returning to India from the UK. Acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in 1967, its provenance became questionable after a 2019 discovery. Following an investigation and a formal claim by India, the museum has agreed to…

The Times of India

Nvidia and UK Wealth Fund invest in British autonomous driving startup Oxa

Oxford-based firm has raised $103m for commercial development of software for self-driving industrial vehicles

The Guardian - UK

Trial date set for Oxford student, 21, accused of stirring up racial hatred at pro-Gaza protest

Samuel Williams denies using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in Whitehall, central London

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Digested week: Spa days for nerds and other coping mechanisms

Discovering Oxford’s Norrington Room, leaning into Pancake Day sainthood and dreaming of a house just for introverts

The Guardian - UK

Another World by Melvyn Bragg review – portrait of the broadcaster as a young man

Leaving behind Cumbria for Oxford in the late 1950s, Bragg navigates class and culture in a world on the brink of change

The Guardian - UK

Arthur Stockwin obituary

Other lives: Scholar of Japanese politics and a tireless builder of bridges between Japan and the UK

The Guardian - UK

Chris Dodd obituary

Journalist, author and Guardian rowing correspondent who was a founder of the River and Rowing Museum in Henley

The Guardian - UK

Mapping cemeteries for class – how students used phones and drones to help a city count its headstones

If you told me a decade ago that I’d become an expert in mapping cemeteries, I would’ve laughed and been very confused about the dramatic turn my professional life must’ve taken at some point.

The Conversation

Le Manoir: Famous restaurant appoints three-star French chef Arnaud Donckele as Raymond Blanc steps back

The Oxfordshire restaurant and hotel is currently closed for redevelopment

Evening Standard

Why Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss Didn’t Want to Follow Lane Kiffin to LSU

Trinidad Chambliss explains why he’s staying at Ole Miss over following Lane Kiffin to LSU.

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‘It’s pretty gnarly’: Behind the scenes at Trial Eights, the battle for selection at the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race

EXCLUSIVE: Behind the famous annual race is months of preparation, cold, dark mornings on the freezing water, and an internal battle for selection almost as nerve-wracking as the big day itself, as Flo Clifford finds out

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When Does LSU Play Ole Miss Next Season? Lane Kiffin’s Return to Oxford Scheduled

Lane Kiffin is going back to Ole Miss for one weekend in September.

The Guardian - UK

Roy Darke obituary

Other lives: Town planning lecturer and Labour councillor in Sheffield and later in Oxford

The Guardian - UK

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture

I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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The Conversation

From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing…

The Guardian - UK

Probation officers in England and Wales to be given self-defence training after stabbings

Exclusive: Pilot schemes for bodycams, knife arches and metal detectors in probation offices also approved after attacks in Oxford and Preston

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I was at the India-Pakistan Oxford Union Debate and here’s what happened.

The Oxford Union – long celebrated as a cradle of free speech and the stage for some of history’s most consequential debates – was meant to host another landmark discussion last week.

Sports Illustrated

The Five Wackiest Things That Went Down During Lane Kiffin’s Move From Ole Miss to LSU

College football’s most talked-about figure is headed from Oxford to Baton Rouge.

Sports Illustrated

What Ole Miss AD, New Coach Pete Golding Had to Say As Lane Kiffin Departs for LSU

Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter and new head coach Pete Golding provided statements on the program’s direction after Lane Kiffin departed for LSU.

Sports Illustrated

Lane Kiffin Bolts Ole Miss for LSU After Weeks of Speculation

After six seasons in Oxford, Kiffin is leaving Ole Miss for an SEC rival.

Sports Illustrated

Lane Kiffin Ole Miss-LSU Saga: How ESPN’s Marty Smith Became the Unlikely Star

The veteran ESPN reporter has been on the ground in Oxford tracking Kiffin’s every move.

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