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Oxford falls to lowest ever spot in The Times UK University Guide 2027

The University of Oxford has placed fifth in The Times’s 2027 UK university rankings, falling from joint fourth with the University of Cambridge last year. This marks Oxford’s lowest ranking in the guide’s 33 year history and only the second time the University has not been in the top three.

Protest held outside Town Hall over sale of Council-owned building to St Peter’s

A protest took place today outside Oxford Town Hall against Oxford City Council’s plan to sell 11 New Road to St Peter’s College, which would convert most of the building into student housing.

Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after...

Finance workers strike at Oxford University Press

Finance workers are on strike at Oxford University Press (OUP) over plans to offshore jobs to India, with trade union officials warning that “before long this great British institution will exist in the UK in name only."

Oxford rejects proposal for university report cards

The University dispels the idea that traditional degree classifications may be replaced by the 'Higher Education Achievement Report'

Bo Guagua defends father

Former Balliolite says his father Bo Xilai is “devoted to duty”

Oxford police crack down on crime against students

Thames Valley Police have launched new campaign to prevent students becoming victims of crime

Oxford alumnus wins Nobel Prize

Sir John Gurdon shares the Nobel Prize for medicine

Oxford’s only strip club closed

The Lodge Gentlemen's Club stripped of its licence

Students produce poetry anthology

Students around Oxford produced the collection in aid of Oxfam's GROW campaign

Magdalen topples Merton in latest Norrington table

Magdalen leads latest Norrington Table, while Merton, historically the most successful college, plummets 13 places

Tolkien fans gather for the 38th Oxonmoot festival

Festival celebrates Tolkien's works on the Hobbit’s 75th anniversary and Bilbo Baggins's birthday

College accommodation issues cause problems across Oxford

Unfinished and overdue building works have prevented students from moving into college rooms allocated to them last year, with some forced to commute more than 30 minutes to their colleges.

St Aldate’s Tavern to reopen

A city centre pub is to reopen after refurbishment

Residents renew objections to Port Meadow Development

Although no objections were received during the planning permission stage, residents are now protesting about the planned building of student flats on Port Meadow

PPE finalists create revision musical

Three PPE third years are writing 'John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice: The Musical!'

Cory Bernardi withdraws from Oxford talk

Australian politician pulls out of speaking at Oxford University summit after making comments on same sex marriage

Mark Thompson takes up professorship at Oxford

Mark Thompson, the former director general of the BBC, is to be Humanitas Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford this term.

Jamal’s restaurant closes down

New Indian restaurant Arzoo opens in Jericho on the same site as venue Jamal’s, which closed earlier this summer

OUP hit out at photocopiers

Oxford University Press joins lawsuit against Delhi University’s photocopying service

St Catz porter’s inquest reaches verdict

The inquest into the death of David Lord, a night porter at St Catherine's College, has concluded that it was suicide

OUSU voted least popular student union in the UK

Oxford University and Oxford Brookes Student Unions rated worst in the country for 'student satisfaction'

Oxford alumna creates porn website

Cindy Gallop, a Somerville graduate, has created a new website which is attempting to change accepted standards of pornography by only using user-submitted videos

Fallen Oxford graduate repatriated

A University College graduate has been repatriated to Oxford after being killed while serving in Afghanistan

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