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Anti-hunting group protests against alleged illegal hunt on St John’s College land

Anti-hunting protesters gathered outside the Sheldonian Theatre during matriculation on Saturday to protest against alleged illegal hunting activities on land owned by St John’s College.
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Oxford University and councils announce partnership to build Greenway cycle lanes

Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire County Council, and the University of Oxford have announced plans...
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Local and business leaders in Oxford sleep out for homelessness

Forty-eight business and community leaders slept out in University Parks to raise money for homelessness as part of the annual Oxfordshire CEO sleepout on 8th October.
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Students join march against the far right at matriculation

Approximately 300 demonstrators joined the ‘Oxford Unites Against the Far Right’ unity march Saturday afternoon, amid matriculation ceremonies.
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in Full: Oxford University announces new BAME data

Oxford University have announced their 2019 BAME undergraduate intake statistics. The 2019 intake of students from Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds was more...

Magdalen and Worcester announce access progress

Both Magdalen College and Worcester College have announced marked improvements in the number of offers made and places taken up by students from underrepresented...

White Rabbit accused of xenophobia

A Welsh student studying at Oxford has accused staff at the White Rabbit of xenophobia. The student alleges that staff refused to serve him after...

Centrepiece of Council’s homelessness strategy opens on Floyds Row

A new £1.9m homeless shelter has been opened on Floyds Row, becoming the centre of Oxford City Council’s plans to assist people experiencing homelessness...

Green Party attacks City Council’s climate commitment

The Green Party have alleged that Oxford City Council has misrepresented its financial commitment to combating the climate crisis. Last month the Council announced...

Social club to be replaced by affordable housing

Oxford City Council’s team decided the fate of Barton Royal British Legion Club on the 15th of January. The club on Edgecombe Road is...

Oxford Climate Society kick-start ‘Climate in the Curriculum’ campaign

Oxford Climate Society (OCS) have intensified their push for the University to mandatorily put climate on the curriculum, stepping up interactions with the University...

Sir Ernest Ryder elected master of Pembroke College

Pembroke has announced that the Rt Hon Sir Ernest Ryder will be the next Master of the college, taking over from Dame Lynne Brindley...

Oxford to launch UK’s first zero emissions zone in December

Oxford is expected to launch the UK’s first Zero Emissions Zone in the North-West of the city this December. Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire...

Recent admissions statistics show growing success of access initiatives

Admissions statistics reveal the growing success of various access initiatives throughout Oxford. Following the continuation of Lady Margaret Hall’s (LMH) Foundation Year, all students...

Dodds backs Starmer for Labour Leader

Anneliese Dodds, the Labour and Co-Operative MP for Oxford East, has nominated Keir Starmer for Leader of the Labour Party in the coming leadership...

Professor latest implicated in Cambridge Analytica scandal

Raymond Duch, Fellow of Nuffield College and Director of the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, is the latest academic to be implicated in the...

Layla Moran voted down in fight to protect Erasmus Programme

Oxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran pushed two amendments to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to keep UK in Erasmus+ programme and to protect...

Union announces Hilary term card

Conan O’Brien, Governor Tom Wolfe, Tarana Burke and Paul Krugman are among names released on the Union’s Hilary term card.  Television host and comedian Conan...

BREAKING: Oxford announces record state school offers

Oxford University has announced that more than 69% of undergraduate offers have been made to students attending state schools. The increase of 4.6% is...

Petition launched to protect UK’s role in Erasmus

A petition to put pressure on the government to protect the UK’s role in the EU’s Erasmus scheme has received over 26,000 signatures.  MPs voted...

Moran calls for City Council to “step up”

Layla Moran has called for Oxford City Council to "step up" after an investigation revealed that almost 47,000 homes have been left vacant nationwide,...

1000s attended ‘Uncomfortable Oxford’ history events in 2019

‘Uncomfortable Oxford’, a project encouraging awareness of Oxford’s ‘legacies of inequality and imperialism’, has experienced rapid growth since its creation in 2018. Almost 3000...

Oxford’s Layla Moran becomes first publicly pansexual MP

Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon, has revealed she identifies as pansexual, announcing she is in a “really committed, loving,...

Oxford divided over trans rights, data suggests

Newly published polling data has indicated that Oxford citizens are divided over issues surrounding trans rights. The data, published by the news website UnHerd...
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