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I was wrong. Oxford needs a ‘reading’ week.

In passing, friends often bemoan how their partners at other universities get a week off, mid-term, to, in essence, prat around. The deified ‘reading week’. I have always held...

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St Anne’s announces the Jane Schulz-Hood Travel and Research Scholarship

St Anne’s College has recently launched the Jane Schulz-Hood Travel and Research Scholarship Fund in memory of alumna Jane E. Hood. The initiative will provide travel and research grants to support students undertaking field work.

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Oxford-led study develops calculator to predict long-term cognitive impact of strokes

A new predictive tool has been developed by a team of researchers to help clinicians identify which stroke patients are most likely to experience long-term cognitive difficulties.

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Chewe Munkonge due to become Oxford’s first Black Lord Mayor

Councillor Chewe Munkonge has been announced as Oxford’s next Lord Mayor, becoming the first...

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Record crowds attend May Day celebrations

Oxford's annual may day celebrations took place last weekend, with record numbers of students, visitors and Oxford residents taking advantage of May 1 falling on Sunday. The...

Profile: Michael Møller

Daniel Kodsi talks to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva about the future of the United Nations

Competition: Win tickets to Common People 2016

Win tickets to Common People Festival, Oxford (28th - 29th May) via Twitter

Woman claims to be at Oxford, scams parents for £250,000

Nicola Boardman, 34, used the money to travel and party

Oxford and Cambridge lead in university donations

Oxbridge receives almost half of all donations to universities in the UK

Scientists fight prejudice in gowns

Petition suggests all wear commoner's gown to avoid prejudice

Prince William to open Magdalen library

The Duke of Cambridge will be visiting Oxford to open Magdalen’s recently completed Longwall Library. The Prince will come on May 11, spending his...

Oxford finishes second in CUG university rankings

For the sixth year, Oxford ﬁnds itself behind rival Cambridge

University and City Council release pro-European statements

The University's statement was shortly followed by the City Council's similar expression of support to the pro-European campaign. Analysis by Dan Sutton

Oxford students to stand for City Council elections

Students have been selected as candidates for the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems

Majority want NUS ‘Oxit’

Following announcement of NUS referendum, Cherwell survey ﬁnds that majority want out

Oxford to hold referendum on NUS membership

Referendum will be held on Oxford's affiliation to the National Union of Students before sixth week

Dissident philosopher protests outside Balliol

Julius Tomin, a well-known Czech political philosopher and classical scholar, protested today for the third day on Broad Street, claiming that Oxford academics were...