Sunday 7th June 2026

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Oxford City Council announces new cabinet for 2026/27

Oxford City Council leader Susan Brown has announced her new cabinet for the 2026/2027 year. Brown, who also leads the Labour group on the Council, has appointed seven Labour councillors to the cabinet following local elections on 7th May in which Labour lost its overall majority but remained the largest party on the Council.
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Prime Minister of Sri Lanka delivers annual lecture at Oxford School of Global and Area Studies

Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya, delivered the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OGSA) Annual Lecture at St. Antony’s College on 19th May.
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Oxford researchers collaborate to release open data to accelerate AI drug discovery

University of Oxford researchers have released a new open data set and AI model to accelerate drug discovery.
News Isaac Gavaghan -

Rare Oxford University photo of Oscar Wilde sells at auction

A newly-discovered photograph of Oscar Wilde at the University of Oxford was recently sold for more than £5,300 at an auction.  
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Vote on Union rules changes to be held on Thursday

Vote on introduction of RON and slates to go ahead amidst calls by some members to move the poll to 6th Week

OUSU to decide on Free Education Demo

OUSU forced to reconsider support for Demo following NUS withdrawal

PPE-mail list spammed by trolls

Harmless email inquiry provokes thread of spam for society members

Oxford grad wins one of six £3,000 Amazon Student Prizes

Prize gives DPhil student Thomas David money for academic books and digital equipment

Fellow banned from conference amid Ebola concerns

Strict quarantine laws exclude academic from American conference because he has been to affected Guinea

RAG’s "Firewalk" a success despite shaky start

Around 25 students walk six metres across hot coals for RAG's charities, after organisers were forced to halve the initial funding target

Oxide radio suspended for forseeable future

Students rue the lack of funding and support made available to the station

St John’s ban mobile phones in hall

The Senior Dean announces students will be 'removed' if they are caught using their phones at dinner

Race for OUSU Presidency begins

Adam Roberts, Becky Howe and Will Obeney are all in the Presidential race, after ‘joke candidate’ Sam Wiseman pulls out

“Weird” and “unnecessary” club night criticised

Students have expressed distaste for an Oxford Brookes club night called “Midget Night Bridge” which featured men of short stature in superhero costumes

Review: Love, Rosie

Rosie Sykes found this tale of living with the life choices we make a lurching, clumsy affair

NUS withdraws support for Free Education demo

NUS President and Vice-Presidents decide to stop supporting demo due to 'unacceptable level of risk' to members

Clegg claims Oxbridge graduates face ‘prejudice’

Deputy Prime Minister makes claims about employment prospects of Oxbridge graduates in the public sector

‘Big Sleepout’ held in New College

Students held sleepout as part of Homelessness Awareness week

Oxford joins Google in Artificial Intelligence partnership

Google Deepmind and Oxford University have recently announced AI partnership

Missing Exeter cartoon found

Exeter's 'Cut the Catering Charge' cartoon has been returned

Merton celebrate historic Time Ceremony

Mertonians parade backwards around the Fellows' Quad in a ritual dating back 43 years

Record number of applicants to Oxford

Oxford applications have risen sharply this year with numbers exceeding that of Cambridge

OUSU joins the march to adopt Free Education policy

OUSU Council votes to adopt Free Education, following JCR mandates and much debate

£110 million cancer research centre for Headington

Precision Cancer Medicine Institute to open in 2017 or 2018 after £35million government grant
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