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SU launches new community fund for society events

The Oxford University Student Union (SU) is launching a new community fund to support student societies “to create exciting, inclusive events”. Societies can apply for up to £200 in...

SU Sabbatical Officers urge Government to “remove the barriers” to Gazan students reaching the UK

Sabbatical Officers at the Oxford University Student Union (SU) have signed an open letter...

Lindsay Skoll announced as new Jesus Principal

Jesus College have announced that British diplomat Lindsay Skoll will take up the role...

Oxford University Press ceases publication of Chinese-owned journal following ethical concerns

Oxford University Press (OUP) will cease the publication of the Forensic Sciences Research (FSR)...

Oxford names Shakespeare collaborator

Experts at Oxford have concluded that the play 'All's Well That Ends Well', commonly believed to have been written solely by Shakespeare, was co-written by former Queen's student Thomas Middleton

Students pitch Occupy camp outside Brookes

Occupy movement comes to Oxford Brookes as students make variety of demands, protesting the 'privatisation of education'

Oxford slips behind LSE in rankings table

New figures by Good University Guide place Oxford third under both Cambridge and LSE

Oxford launches Springboard program

Course driven by desire to eliminate lack of women in high-powered positions compared to men

Middle-aged partiers come to St Anne’s bop

St Anne's bop-goers were surprised to find guests from a 40th birthday party still in the club

Trenton Oldfield charged with causing ‘public nuisance’

Trenton Oldfield, the protestor who halted this year's boat race by swimming into the paths of the boats, has been charged and bailed subject to strict conditions

Armando Iannucci abseils down hospital for charity

The creator of the BBC 4 sitcom The Thick of It, has abseiled down the John Radcliffe Infirmary to raise money for the hospital's Silver Star baby unit

Oxford Council husts hotly contested

Students among number of prospective councillors hoping to win in the election on May 3

Disabled Keble drummer goes viral

Student Cornel Hrisca-Munn receives hundreds of thousands of YouTube views for his drum covers of songs

Home births could save NHS millions

A study by researchers at Oxford University has shown that the NHS could save millions of pounds every year by encouraging home births.

Oxford graduate under scrutiny

The father of Balliol graduate Bo Guagua is at the centre of a Chinese political scandal and murder investigation

Charity tax plans cause anger in Oxford

Vice-Chancellor Andrew Hamilton writes letter to George Osborne expressing concern over proposed reforms to the taxation of charitable donations, which could cost Oxford millions

World Alpaca Conference held at Keble

Keble College plays host to hundreds of international delegates as well as a pair of alpacas in the first World Alpaca Conference to be held in the UK

Oxford Martin School opens major economics institute

George Soros funded Institute for New Economics Thinking will collaborate with Martin School to create new unit for preventing and tackling future economic crises

Oxford professor will not be charged over colleague’s death

Professor Dr Devinder Sivia will not face any charges in relation to the death of friend and colleague, Professor Stephen Rawlings

Aung San Suu Kyi may visit ‘beloved Oxford’

Cameron extends invitation to Burmese pro-democracy politician while on business trip to Asia

Heartland Institute urges Oxford to cancel speaker

Controversial American think tank calls for scientist set to speak at the Oxford Amnesty Lecture Series to be barred

Oxford encourages Indian students

Despite stricter visa requirements the University has urged students from India to apply

Miss Representation to be screened

Film focuses on under-representation of women in high profile positions and premiered at Sundance Festival in 2011

Ancient Vatican texts to be shared online

Landmark collaboration between Bodleian and Vatican promises to make millions of pages of text available for free

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