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Construction set to commence for new £190m science park

Construction firm Bowmer + Kirkland secured the contract last week to build Fabrica, Oxford’s largest commercial science park to date, with construction beginning at the end of May. The...

India Society cancels cricket match with Pakistan Society

Oxford India Society have cancelled a scheduled cricket match with Oxford Pakistan Society, citing...

Christ Church proposes construction of new graduate centre

Christ Church has proposed the refurbishment and extension of the Faculty of Music building...

Oxford’s DPIR issues guidance on US travel for students

Guidance on travel to the US has been shared with all postgraduate students in...

Wadham moderates anti-Formal stance

A motion to create a weekly formal is passed, but only after the name is amended to 'guest night'

Holocaust talk at Brasenose

Eva Clarke, whose mother survived Auschwitz, talks to Brasnose's Ashmole Society

St Anne’s keeps High Table

A motion calling for the college to abolish High Table is voted down

Spring school on Tolkein

An Oxford professor is setting up a Tolein Spring School with a series of introductory lectures on the author.

Oxford’s tweet week

Students access project records a week in the life of Oxford students

Queen’s rugby team raises money for charity

Rugby players from Queen's College pledge to wax and get a tattoo for charity

Prince Charles to visit Oxford

The Prince of Wales will visit St Stephen’s House in February to meet those training for the Anglican ministry

Break-in at Pembroke accommodation build

Students living in Pembroke College's New Build have suffered security problems as a result of ongoing works, which are running behind schedule

Boys missing out on university

Universities Minister targets “white working class boys” in admission process

Anger over Corpus housing

Next year’s finalists at Corpus will be moved out of the main college site into housing behind Park End nightclub

RAG organises Hitchhiking challenge

New fundraising event for Oxford students

Palin made honorary member of Exeter JCR

Exeter College JCR invited Michael Palin to become honorary member in Sunday's meeting

Mehdi’s kebab van loses its licence

Kebab van closed after numerous complaints and repeated failure to meet the council's standards of health and safety

Two skeletons found in Wadham back quad

Site in Wadham's back quad is suspected to be an old priory burial state

Union opens its doors to Assange

In Union talk WikiLeaks founder speaks of 'The Fifth Estate,' the Ecuadorian embassy and protests

Number of Oxford firsts increases at slower rate

Proportion of firsts awarded at Oxbridge is increasing more slowly than that of other UK universities.

Oxford bucks admissions trend

Increased tuition fees have led to fewer students applying to UK universities, excluding Oxbridge.

HIV breakthrough discovered

Oxford researchers help discover that a 48-week course of antiretroviral medication taken in the early stages of HIV infection slows the damage to the immune system and delays the need for long term treatment

Joke JCR motion passed to provide lube

Pembroke students vote in favour of a joke motion to provide lubricant to JCR members.

Carbon Rod runs for NUS President

Inspired by an episode of The Simpsons, an inanimate carbon rod is running for NUS Presidency