Monday, January 20, 2025

Anna Leszkiewicz

Further charges in Oxford sex ring

Man arrested in Operation Bullfinch in March now charged with another two counts of raping a child, trafficking and sexual activity in the presence of a child

Students survive on a pound a day

Charity drive involves living below the international Extreme Poverty line as defined by the World Bank

David Willetts dines at Keble High Table

Students express outrage as Willetts is invited to dinner despite the University's no-confidence vote in him in June 2011

Bo Guagua defends lifestyle

Son of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai speaks out after media frenzy surrounding his time at Oxford

Oxford launches Springboard program

Course driven by desire to eliminate lack of women in high-powered positions compared to men

Oxford graduate under scrutiny

The father of Balliol graduate Bo Guagua is at the centre of a Chinese political scandal and murder investigation

Oxford sex ring is ‘larger than feared’

Additional arrests are made in Operation Bullfinch as total number of victims estimated at over 50

Taxi surveillance proposals suspended

Oxford City Council suspends plans to install CCTV in every taxi in Oxford while government data protection body investigates privacy concerns

Sermon preaches accepting homosexuality

Pembroke Chaplain Andrew Teal holds service advocating the support of LGBTQ rights entitled, 'An Overdue Apology'

Lee wins Union presidency

Seung-yoon Lee beats Luke Eaton for the presidency of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas 2012

Permission granted for University housing project

312 flats and bedsits to be built on former railway land

Blockbusters and Bueller: the 80s in film

Anna Leszkiewicz seeks out the infectious enthusiasm and big displays of 1980s cinema

Ebdon criticises Oxford

New Access Tsar calls University rankings “a snobs’ table”

Les Ebdon criticises Oxford

Head of University Fair Access Body also refers to national uni­versity rankings as “a snobs’ table”

Bike crime on the rise

Bicycle crime reaches 'unprecedented levels' in Oxford

Complaints about proposal to name building after Thatcher

The Saïd Business school’s plan to name building after Margaret Thatcher sparks national debate

Bed in a shed

Landlord attempts to rent a garden shed, which has no running water or electricity

Numbers of firsts increase nationally

Number of students gaining Firsts nationally almost doubled in the last decade while some employers say a first from Oxford is no better than a first from another university.

St John’s officially Fairtrade

College commits to living wage and achieves Fairtrade status.

Oxford Professor of Poetry knighted

Geoffrey Hill, Oxford's Professor of Poetry and eminent literary critic, receives a knighthood in New Year's Honours List

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