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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.
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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.
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Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after...
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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."
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Subfusc gender restrictions removed

Academic dress code is altered to accommodate the needs of transgender students

Oxonian’s Olympic Ode a success

Ode written by Oxford Professor and read by Boris Johnson received enthusiastically

Flotilla commemorates Alice in Wonderland

Celebrations on the river commemorate the 150th anniversary of Carroll's classic story

65% of state schools send no students to Oxbridge

Newly available data reveals low Oxbridge intake for the majority of UK state schools

Oxford researchers solve MS drug mystery

Oxford University scientists discover gene flaw which explains why certain drugs are unable to treat multiple sclerosis.

Subject tests for Oxford entrance on the rise

More and more Oxford applicants made to sit admissions test before interview

Olympic Torch passes through Oxford

Olympic Torch procession arrives in city before start of London 2012 Games

University unveils £300m Moritz-Heyman Scholarship

Oxford alumnus pledges scholarship fund to help disadvantaged students with the cost of university

Oxford-developed bionic eye restores sight

Oxford researchers help blind patients regain sight with implantation of electronic retinas

Environmentalism conference brings big names to Oxford

Bill Clinton, James Cameron and Sir David Attenborough to speak at Oxford forum on resource scarcity

Campaign to save All Souls’ owned library continues

Local community determined to save Kensal Rise Library

University publishers fined over bribery scandal

Oxford University Press charged following discovery of corrupt activity

Oxford researchers win ovarian cancer funding

Oxford University scientists receive funding for research into drugs used to treat ovarian cancer

East End Classics Centre to launch

Oxford and Birkbeck help found Classics Centre in Hackney for local students

Oxford research predicts most expensive Olympics ever

Research from the Saïd Business School suggests that this summer's Games will be the most expensive in history

Oxford unveils plaque for cricket star

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who played for the Blues while at Balliol and captained the Indian national side, was honoured by a plaque at the Oxford University Pavilion

Oxford extends support to all UK students

Oxford University is to extend its UK financial support package to Scottish and Northern Irish undergraduate students, with a potential £7,470 of bursaries and fee waivers on offer per year.

Scientists claim to find bones of John the Baptist

Bones which Bulgarian scientists argued are those of John the Baptist have been dated to the first century AD

Oxford scientists help with malaria breakthrough

Researchers discover a more direct way of analysing the DNA of malaria parasites

Radiation link to childhood leukaemia discovered

Oxford University researchers have shown that low amounts of gamma radiation can increase the risk of childhood leukaemia, contrary to former scientific consensus
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