The Oxford University Broadcasting Society ( OUBS ) was a student society at the University of Oxford , England. It covered radio and television broadcasting .
12-452: Rewley House , located on the corner of Wellington Square and St John Street in the city of Oxford , England , is the primary base of Oxford University 's Department for Continuing Education (previously the Department of External Studies). The building known as Rewley House was originally built in 1873 as a convent school, St Anne's Rewley. By 1903, the school had ceased operation, and
24-464: A 13th-century Cistercian monastery which stood nearby. The Oxford University Department for Continuing Education offers over 700 courses annually to over 15,000 students, making it one of the largest departments at the University, and a leading provider of part-time adult education worldwide. Wellington Square, Oxford Wellington Square is a garden square in central Oxford , England ,
36-563: A continuation northwards of St John Street . In the centre of the square is a small park, Wellington Square Gardens , owned by the University of Oxford . A bicycle route passes into Little Clarendon Street through the pedestrian area at the front of the University Offices in the north-east of the square. The street name is used to refer metonymically to the central administration of the University of Oxford, which in 1975 moved from
48-584: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Oxford University Broadcasting Society The officers include a president, secretary, treasurer, programme coordinator, technical director, news editor, social secretary, and two ordinary committee members. Equipment included a Uher 4000L portable tape recorder. For some years, OUBS used the BBC Radio Oxford studio in Wellington Square, Oxford to produce radio programmes for Radio Oxford and
60-600: Is in the square in Rewley House , which was designed in 1872 by the Oxford architect E. G. Bruton , who also laid out the square. This was the initial location of Kellogg College . Number 47 houses the administrative offices of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages , as well as the university's Slavic and Modern Greek collections. Barnett House (named after the social reformer Canon Samuel Barnett and his wife Henrietta), home of
72-465: The Clarendon Building to new buildings with an address in the square but built at that time, along with graduate student accommodation, along the adjacent Little Clarendon Street . In May 2024, 16 students were arrested in the administration offices during a sit-in protest for Palestine, part of the wider Oxford Action For Palestine movement. The university's Department for Continuing Education
84-562: The Department of Social Policy and Intervention is found along one side of the square. The Oxford University Broadcasting Society used a studio of Radio Oxford in the square. On 23 May, protesters occupied the office building of Vice-Chancellor Irene Tracey , overlooking Wellington Square, hanging a Palestinian flag and list of demands out of an office window. Thames Valley Police made an initial 16 arrests on suspicion of aggravated trespass, and one on suspicion of common assault, after
96-690: The Oxford Hospitals Broadcasting Association (OHBA), (later known as Radio Cherwell from 1967 ) It also used the studios at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, home of the Oxford Hospitals Broadcasting Association, which ran a radio station known as Radio Cherwell. Aubrey Singer , controller of BBC2 , spoke to the society in 1975. This article about an organisation in the United Kingdom
108-465: The 1960s and 1980s added accommodation and dining facilities for students, in addition to more teaching classrooms and a lecture theatre . Kellogg College , the University's only college dedicated to the needs of part-time adult students, was based in Rewley House until the late 1990s, when it moved to its own grounds nearby on Banbury Road in Oxford. The name "Rewley" is taken from Rewley Abbey ,
120-422: The building stood dormant until 1927, when it was purchased by the University of Oxford as a headquarters for its adult education activities. Oxford University was one of the founders of the adult education movement in the United Kingdom in the late 19th century. By the 20th century the University's outreach efforts had grown to such a level as to make a base in Oxford necessary. A report of 1919 recommended "
132-497: The establishment of a Centre or House for Extra-Mural Students ". The old St Anne's became Rewley House, and was the ideal base of operations — particularly since the small hotels in Wellington Square had long been used as accommodation by the University's external students coming to Oxford for residential portions of their courses. Rewley House in the 1920s included a library, a common room and lecture halls. Further expansion in
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#1733085244903144-502: The university authorities called the police. A 17th arrest was later made. The university reported that at least 12 of those arrested were current students. According to a protester, they agreed to leave when police said they would be arrested if they did not, but they were arrested anyway. They were released on conditional bail that night. 51°45′28″N 1°15′44″W / 51.75778°N 1.26222°W / 51.75778; -1.26222 This Oxfordshire location article
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