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Oxford falls to lowest ever spot in The Times UK University Guide 2027

The University of Oxford has placed fifth in The Times’s 2027 UK university rankings, falling from joint fourth with the University of Cambridge last year. This marks Oxford’s lowest ranking in the guide’s 33 year history and only the second time the University has not been in the top three.
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Protest held outside Town Hall over sale of Council-owned building to St Peter’s

A protest took place today outside Oxford Town Hall against Oxford City Council’s plan to sell 11 New Road to St Peter’s College, which would convert most of the building into student housing.
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Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after...
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Finance workers strike at Oxford University Press

Finance workers are on strike at Oxford University Press (OUP) over plans to offshore jobs to India, with trade union officials warning that “before long this great British institution will exist in the UK in name only."
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Balliol joins protest against Yarl’s Wood

JCR pass a motion against immigrant detention centre

Teddy Hall rugby team in“topless brawl”

Players “smashed up” a toilet and fought on the quad, after Teddy Hall’s 10-2 loss to Anne’s at darts

Ashmolean opens new Islamic Art exhibition

"Power and Protection" features artefacts revealing the diverse history of Islamic culture

Pembroke JCR passes anti-Brexit motion

Pembroke College's JCR have passed a motion that stated its “disapproval” of the current government and its support for an “open and tolerant Britain”. The...

Balliol JCR donates to ‘Toilet Twinning’ charity

Balliol college JCR passed a motion on Sunday pledging to twin one of their loos with another block of toilets in a developing country....

Academics need freedom of movement post-Brexit, former minister says

Former Universities Minister Lord David Willetts proposed that the UK government ought to fi ght for academics and students to be given freedom of...

Marco Pierre White to open restaurant in Oxford

The luxury steakhouse will open in 2017, Oxford's second from the Michelin-starred chef

Lightsaber battles come to Oxford

Lightsaber training lessons arrived in Oxford earlier this month, based on the lightsaber battles of the Star Wars film franchise universe. Jordan Court has practiced...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee to join Oxford computer science department

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, is joining Christ Church as a computer science professor, the University announced Thursday

Cherwell Careers Guide 2016

Check out the 2016 version of the Cherwell Careers Guide

St Anne’s name new principal

Helen King is an alumna of St Anne's and the first police officer to be appointed head of an Oxbridge college

Oxford placed top in UK by US ranking

Oxford University has been ranked the top institution of its kind in Europe and sixth in the world by American media company US News...

Merton votes to leave Sheffield SU

In a JCR motion on Sunday night, the undergraduate body voted not renew its affiliation to Sheffield Student Union

Self-harm prevention app launched by Oxford students

Self-Heal offers support for self-harmers through the use of positive images

Hash-up breakfast at the Randolph

Top food critic outraged at poor quality of luxury hotel’s overpriced breakfast

New College’s new quad

Plans by David Khon Architects include 70 new student rooms and new facilities

Students protest with red ribbons at matriculation

RMF and Free Education Oxford join in protest against “neoliberalisation and coloniality”

Ed Miliband: “I’m not going anywhere”

Former Labour leader reveals plans to stay in Commons at Nuffield event

Trinity freshers drunk and chanting during matriculation

First-years asked to donate £10 following “disgraceful behaviour” during ceremony

Christ Church motion for war on Merton and Corpus “passed with flying colours”

The college’s JCR committee has decided to take on both belligerents at once
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