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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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Oxford scientist raises money for Alzheimer’s research

Dr Francesca Nicholls will take part in a 100km walk to Lindisfarne for Alzheimer's Research UK

Oxford produces more millionaires than any other UK university

Oxford came fourth in the world in the ranking of millionaire graduates, behind three US universities and seven places ahead of Cambridge.

Oxford comes seventh in world university rankings

Oxford and Cambridge, placed fourth, are the only British universities in top ten of Shanghai Ratings

Oxford applications outstrip Cambridge again

Oxford has 15% more applications as more teenagers apply to Oxbridge overall

National Student Survey: Oxford has 90% satisfaction rate

National Student Survey results placed Oxford in the top 20 nationwide, whilst OUSU took the bottom spot for student union satisfaction

Crayfish damage Magdalen College wall

American crayfish burrowing into a wall on the bank of the River Cherwell have caused its partial collapse

A little (qu)bit closer to a quantum computer

Breakthrough at Oxford's Clarendon Laboratory brings the computing dream a little nearer

OUSU backs criticism of higher education reform

Senior OUSU officers among signatories to Guardian letter criticising proposed Teaching Excellence Framework

Two Oxford Graduates win Olympic medals in first week

Constantine Louloudis wins gold and Tom Mitchell silver, as Oxford graduates perform well in Rio

Fire at Clarendon Institute ‘started in a toaster’

Twenty firefighters battled a fire at the Clarendon Institute this afternoon, with one woman hurt

Oxford research targets bone pain in cancer sufferers

Innovative project by a research team from the University seeks to end the agonising condition

Oxford graduates to compete in Rio

As the Olympics grandly opens in Rio, Oxford’s long-earned pedigree at the games will be once more put to the test. With a formidable...

Oxford Playhouse to reopen after refurbishment

Iconic Oxford theatre will reopen with production of Peter Pan sequel

Tuition fee rise accompanies fall in state school students going to university

State school entrants experience "a flattening of rates" while independent school numbers remain high

Full Royall report confirms cases of antisemitic behaviour at OULC

The report answers the concerns initially raised by the resignation of co-Chair Alex Chalmers

Wahoo to close

The immensely popular nightclub will close around the end of 2016 as the site is redeveloped.

NUS snaps at maintenance grant scrap

Maintenance grants for students in the poorest threshold replaced by "lifetime debt"

Oxford among least affordable cities for students

Oxford has been ranked the fourth most expensive city in the UK for students, with Edinburgh taking the top spot, according to The Royal...

Sunlight damaging exhibits at Oxford Natural History Museum

The museum's refurbished glass roof has failed to protect rare specimens during unusually warm weather.

Ndakuna Fonso Amilou, Oxford’s Rare rising star

Recruitment agency Rare has named the Cameroonian postgrad the country's best black student
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