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Students encounter issues with voting registration during local elections

Multiple students across Oxford have reported being turned away from polling stations during Thursday’s local elections.

Access to Canvas temporarily suspended by University following cyberattack

Access to Canva has been temporarily suspended by the University today as a precautionary measure following an external breach of Instructure, the third-party supplier of Canvas.

Oxford Union town hall HT26 re-run: Meet the candidates

A re-poll for the Oxford Union Presidency for Michaelmas 2026 is set to take place on Monday. Cherwell spoke to the candidates running about the state of the Union and their vision for the society.

Oxford Labour defies national trends at city council elections

The Labour Party defied national trends in the Oxford local elections yesterday, with their seat count in the City Council dropping slightly from 21 to 20, against a national backdrop of major losses for the party.

Petition launched against ‘academic racism’ at Oxbridge

Russell Group university researchers call on Oxford and Cambridge to stop excluding black academics

Exeter College pays tribute to student

Exeter College mourns the death of one of its students

Bo Guagua threatened by Neil Heywood

Details have come to light during the trial of Guagua's mother over Neil Heywood's murder.

Exeter hosts ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy Day’

Exeter starts morale-boosting event to banish Fifth Week Blues.

Oxford academics criticise Higher Education Reform

Prominent UK intellectuals, including many with ties to Oxford, form The Council for the Defence of British Universities, a campaign to 'defend' universities.

250 year-old opera revived

St Hilda's Director of Music, Jonathan Williams, reconstructs score of Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Anacréon and plays it in Oxford

Bronze Age arrowhead found in Oxford

Oxford University-run dig uncovers Bronze Age remains

Corpus propose conservative rep

JCR members try to create JCR Officer to protect conservatives from being “attacked”

Tom Rutland elected OUSU President

Rutland trumps Westbury with 2179 votes to 1232

Students to elect new Police Commissioner

Elections for the role of Police and Crime Commissioner took place yesterday.

St John’s bop shut down after students damage ceiling

Presence of non-St John's students and damage to the bop room results in event's closure

Students protest against Willetts

Protest against MP and his role in education reforms takes place outside St Peter's

Trenton drops appeal

Boat Race protester abandons appeal against his six month sentence

St Anne’s Ball cancelled

St Anne’s students angry after their ‘Carnival’ ball is postponed due to insufficient ticket sales

Man stabbed during Iffley Road fight

Police appeal for witnesses after a funeral in East Oxford sees a 31 year old man stabbed in the neck

Bishop of Oxford praises new Archbishop of Canterbury

Bishop of Oxford Rt.Rev.John Pritchard congratulates Rt.Rev.Justin Welby on appointment

French aristocrats trapped in Oxford by conman

French court sentences Thierry Tilly to 8 years in jail for convincing a family of aristocrats that their lives were in danger

Academics criticise bank regulations

Academics, including Prof Alan Morrison of the Saïd Business School, call for financial regulations 'U-turn'

‘Eton of the East End’ pushes for Oxbridge acceptances

London Academy of Excellence focuses on getting students into Russell Group universities

Kensal Rise Library to be turned into flats

Campaigners protest against All Souls' decision to sell library

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