Updated Feb 13, 2021 | 12:39 IST
Rashmi Samant will become Oxford Student Union President after winning the elections. MIT student is all set to become the first Indian women to occupy the position of Student Union President. Rashmi Samant to become Oxford Student Union President | Photo Credit: Representative Image
Alumni of Manipal Institute of Technology, MIT created history by winning the prestigious position of Oxford Student Union President. Rashmi Samant won the elections and is all set to become the first Indian women to occupy the position of Student Union President.
Rashmi, a graduate student of MSc in energy system at Linacre College, Oxford University contested for the post with four main priorities- decolonization and inclusivity, COVID interventions for all, access to quality mental health resources, and decarbonizing the university. As per the MIT communique, Rashmi has bagged more than the combined votes of the other three cont
Rashmi Samant, an alumna of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), won the presidential election to Oxford Student Union on Thursday.She is the first Indian
A number of large protests went ahead in Oxford in 2020 despite the coronavirus, including a Rhodes Must Fall demonstration in High Street in the summer and a Black Lives Matter rally in South Park. There is a right to protest in the UK but officers have the power to break up and fine people for being part of a protest, on coronavirus health grounds. In June, police didn t break up peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstrations even though they would breach coronavirus laws. There were hundreds of people in Oxford High Street in June but police did not prevent the demonstration from going ahead.
An Oxford University college has decided to keep its statue of a Barbados-born slave owner. All Souls College has dropped the name Christopher Codrington from its library, but has refused to remove its controversial statue. In a statement published at the end of last year the college said rather than seek to remove [the statue] the college will investigate further forms of memorialisation and contextualisation within the library, which will draw attention to the presence of enslaved people on the Codrington plantations, and will express the college’s abhorrence of slavery. Christopher Codrington, a former fellow of All Souls, died in 1710, leaving a bequest of £10,000 to the college, which unofficially gave his name to its library where the statue stands.