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Protests outside Oxford asylum hotel as campaigners call for unity and compassion

Around 50 protesters from Stand Up to Racism (SUTR) and other local groups gathered yesterday outside a Holiday Inn Express near the Kassam Stadium to oppose a smaller anti-immigration...

Gazan offer holders ‘relieved’ as government approves visas

Oxford University offer holders living in Gaza have told Cherwell that they feel “a...

SU launches new community fund for society events

The Oxford University Student Union (SU) is launching a new community fund to support...

SU Sabbatical Officers urge Government to “remove the barriers” to Gazan students reaching the UK

Sabbatical Officers at the Oxford University Student Union (SU) have signed an open letter...

Nest of snakes found in historic Union chamber

Conservationists are concerned about marked behavioural shifts in the snakes

Oxford startup receives £4m to develop ‘biological superglue’

Google's venture capital arm has invested £4m in SpyBiotech, an Oxford University spinout

12-year-old named as youngest Oxford organist in history

Oxfordshire schoolboy Louis Moss will play hymns for Jesus College chapel services from this Spring

Oxford politics professor wins Guardian Inspiring Leader Award

Karma Nabulsi, Fellow in Politics at St Edmund Hall, achieves success in the Inspiring Leader category of the Guardian University Awards

Oxford University announces new diverse portraits

Over twenty new portraits for the University feature women, LGBTQ+, disabled, and BME people, and those from varied socio-economic backgrounds

Lola Lo’s closes down and is replaced by new retro bar

Without a final farewell, Lola Lo's has shut its doors for the last time

Atheists among the least afraid of death—Oxford study

A study has shown that atheists are not necessarily the most anxious about death

Oxford tops student survey for academic experience

Oxford beats Cambridge for academic experience in Times Higher Education student survey, but ranks poorly for student welfare

Government plans to protect freedom of speech in universities

Jo Johnson outlines plans to protect freedom of speech in universities, in light of increasing censorship

Oxford students charged £92,254 in overdue library fines in 2015-16

News figures revealed by Freedom of Information request

Survey finds Oxford students hardest working and most miserable in UK

Nearly a quarter of students in Oxford say they regret enrolling

Exeter College’s Cohen Quad formally opened

Delays in building work saw 86 students moved into hotels, but Cohen Quad is now formally open.

Details emerge of George Osborne’s Isis editorship

Remaining copies of the new Evening Standard editor’s 1992 ‘Hemp Edition’ had mysteriously vanished from the Oxford Union archives

Oxford University launches £10 million medical marijuana research program

The project could make the UK the leading frontier in medical marijuana research

Welsh students set for Jesus College summer school

High-achieving Welsh teenagers to be hosted at four-day summer school to trial Oxford life

Somerville to build accommodation on historical site

One hundred and ten student rooms are to be built on the site of the Royalist Civil War defence line

Open House squatters evicted from second University building

Twenty people have been offered overnight shelter in an East Oxford church

Several College heads missed off Brexit open letter

Notable absentees from original list of signatories have expressed their desire to have been included

Oxford heads sign open letter for EU residency rights

Vice-Chancellor and heads of 35 Colleges and PPHs write in support of Lords amendment to guarantee EU residency rights

Malala Yousafzai receives offer to study at Oxford

BREAKING: Nobel Prize winning activist will study PPE at LMH so long as she achieves AAA offer, Telegraph report claims

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