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MML Faculty cuts almost half of special subject final options

Over 40% of Modern Languages Special Subjects have been cut for those sitting finals next year, with up to eight out of eleven options being cancelled in certain languages....

Oxford City Council proposes unified Great Oxford Council

Oxford City Council have released details on a suggested proposal to abolish Oxfordshire’s six...

Possible delay to Oxford’s only winter ball despite ‘committed’ students

Merton College is understood to have asked students on the winter ball committee to...

Oxford University drops disciplinary case against OA4P protestors

Disciplinary proceedings against the 13 student protesters that were arrested at a sit-in last...

CCTV suggested for Somerville kitchen thieves

Students frustrated after variety of items taken from fridges, including chorizo and salmon, and some look to Poirot for inspiration

For the love of all that’s Holi

Students celebrate colourful Holi festival once more despite gloomy spring weather

Students survive on a pound a day

Charity drive involves living below the international Extreme Poverty line as defined by the World Bank

Student signs six-figure book deal

Samantha Shannon-Jones, a second-year student at St Anne's, has signed a three-book deal with Bloomsbury for her series of urban fantasy novels.

Text a question about LGBT for a cocktail

Exeter students set up event similar to Exeter Christian Union's 'Text a Toastie'

Union finds Madeline Grant guilty

English student fined £120 at hearing for breaching Union rules by talking to the press without permission

Exeter students to seek college apology

Petition to be launched after controversial conference held over Easter vacation upset students

UKIP Candidate slammed for ‘homophobia’

Oxford University alumnus Dr Julia Gasper has stated that she has received 'death threats' for her comments regarding homosexuality and linking the Koran to Mein Kampf

Origami fairy hits Corpus Christi

Mysterious paper cranes discovered in the Corpus library

Report: Oxford Council Elections

Cherwell reports direct from the council election count in Oxford Town Hall, bringing you coverage of the first results to be announced and the reactions of Oxford students who stood for election.

David Willetts dines at Keble High Table

Students express outrage as Willetts is invited to dinner despite the University's no-confidence vote in him in June 2011

Keble crackdown on library noise

Dean sends strongly worded email to students warning of 'no second offences' and 'no grey areas'

Christ Church statue dressed in Chelsea colours

Students festoon Mercury statue in Christ Church's Tom Quad with Chelsea flag after the London team won their Champion's League semi-final

Don’t apply to Oxbridge, say teachers

60% of teachers at state secondary schools would not advise even their brightest pupils to apply to Oxbridge

Doctoral students set up Brilliant Club

Two doctoral students have set up a company which aims to help students from the most under-privileged background to gain access to the UK's top universities.

OUSU delegates argue for weighted loans

Oxford students at NUS conference in Sheffield propose expanding London specific weighted loans to other parts of the country

Bo Guagua defends lifestyle

Son of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai speaks out after media frenzy surrounding his time at Oxford

Oxford’s International Affairs

In the second of two international investigations, Cherwell examines the experience of overseas students at Oxford.

New College anger at JCR student lockout

Students at New express disbelief after being barred from their JCR over the Easter vacation to make room for conference guests

Investigation: British students flock overseas

Recent statistics show a sharp increase in British applications to American and European universities

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