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Bangladesh July Revolution leaders speak at Oxford Union as protesters clash outside

Protesters clashed outside the Oxford Union this evening during a panel discussion on the 2024 Bangladeshi July Revolution, entitled “The Student-Led Uprising and the Future of Post-Revolutionary Bangladesh”. The...

Oxford Union election count suspended amid electoral fraud allegations

he Oxford Union’s Trinity Term 2026 election count has been suspended after the Returning Officer identified substantial evidence of interference, before any ballot boxes were opened. 

Mansfield College redevelopment plans approved by Oxford City Council

Oxford City Council unanimously approved Mansfield College’s development plans on Tuesday, 26th May. The project, known as the Estate Transformation Project, will be delivered by architects Feilden Fowles. Mansfield told Cherwell that the development would “provide students and the College with up-to-date facilities they need for generations to come”.

Oxford Union town hall TT26: Meet the candidates 

With polls set to open for Oxford Union elections tomorrow, Friday 12th June, Cherwell spoke to the candidates running to be President in Hilary Term 2027. Milo Donovan and Prajwal Pandey discussed their vision for the society, the challenges facing the Union, and how they would respond to recent controversies surrounding speaker invitations and free speech.

UKIP councillor blames flooding on gay marriage

Students in uproar as David Silvester claims recent Oxfordshire floods are down to government’s legalisation of gay marriage

Academics strike back in two-hour boycott

Oxford UCU members hold afternoon strike to protest recent pay cuts

Students accuse Exeter of "discriminatory" hiring

Exeter MCR members attack college for excluding non-EU students from Junior Dean applications

We still have a nineteenth century approach to welfare

The Tutor View: Arthur Downing, examination fellow at All Souls, argues that the way we discuss social security has harrdly changed since 1834

Wadham MCR’s Men’s Rep calls undergrads "little shits"

SU President condemns 'clearly unacceptable' tone of 'offensive and hostile' email

Treasury debates scrapping student fund

Oxford MP and OUSU condemn cuts to national fund for disadvantaged students

Missing Bean needs major hygiene improvements, says FSA

Food Standards Agency gives the coffee shop 1/5 for hygiene, calling for 'major improvements'

Student banned from college after flamethrower incident

Student receives one year ban from college for using a flamethrower in Arcade Fire costume

Oxford academic warns of blackouts in UK by 2015

Oxford economist warns government ministers of blackouts by 2015, after inadequate response to rising energy needs.

Planning Minister calls Castle Mill "disgraceful"

Nick Boles brands university accommodation 'one of the worst' designed building projects in the last ten years

Ashmolean Cézanne exhibition on 15th anniversary of theft

Fifteen years after a Cézanne painting was stolen from it, the Ashmolean is opening a new Cézanne exhibition

University’s reputation remains cut-proof

Oxford bucks the trend as university applications fall nationwide

Brasenose students receive security warning

Brasenose JCR and HCR presidents have issued a warning to students following reports of a police investigation.

Merton submit proposals for student accomodation

Merton has put forward plans for 294 new student residences

Councillor gambles away pensioner’s life savings

John Morgan sentenced to 5 years for stealing £154,000 from pensioner

Student shortlisted for Mars mission

Oxford student shortlisted for controversial Mars colonization defends project

Merton apologises for amped-up Winter Ball

Revelries could be heard from over a mile away, local residents and councillor complain

Study shows social networks have limits

People have a limited capacity for close friendships, according to Oxford professors

Univ apologises over email blunder

Univ's Senior Tutor has apologised after accidentally emailing the collection results of 50 students to all of the college’s undergraduates.

Animal Testing Campaigns Launched

The Anti-Vivisection Coalition calls for public funding to be stopped to some Oxford labs while the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics proposes an international strategy to deal with animal cruelty.

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