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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."

Cambridge student banned for poem protest

Disbelief as student rusticated for 'impeding free speech' of David Willetts MP

Oxford hits £1.25 billion target

Drive for donations launched in 2004 reaps rewards for the University

Thousands give up gap year dreams

40% of incoming students may have been forced to cancel their gap year plans following the rise in tuition fees, a recent survey has revealed

Heart disease drug may ‘reduce implicit racial bias’

Oxford researchers find that taking Propranolol, a drug used to treat heart disease, may reduce racial feelings at the subconscious level

£10,000 spent on fake Oxford room

East London college spends thousands recreating an Oxford Don's room to help students prepare for interviews

Sermon preaches accepting homosexuality

Pembroke Chaplain Andrew Teal holds service advocating the support of LGBTQ rights entitled, 'An Overdue Apology'

Lee wins Union presidency

Seung-yoon Lee beats Luke Eaton for the presidency of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas 2012

Radical Forum to be held

Weekend event for the radical left

Government criticised on postgraduate education

Universities suggest that the Browne review did not deal adequately with postgraduate issues

Degree courses change nationally

Oxford does not reflect nationwide trends in higher education

Researchers develop liver machine

Oxford scientists involved in plans to keep donor livers suitable for transplant

Bishop of Oxford walks on hot coals for charity

Rt. Rev. John Pritchard gets ‘toasted’ feet, raising nearly £1000

Trinity College restrict students’ access to porn websites

College cite security software updates, and say they take 'no moral stance at all on internet pornography'

University professors recognised by Queen

Two Oxford professors rewarded for Oxford's conservation research

Permission granted for University housing project

312 flats and bedsits to be built on former railway land

Student acquires rare book

Lincolnite finds 4th edition of 'On the Origin of Species' in book giveaway

£26 million donation for graduate scholarships

Widow of founder of Atlantic Records donates largest single sum of money to humanities students in Oxford's history

Residents express concern over energy centre

Summertown citizens write to the council to express worries

Union candidate promotes her assets before election

'Joke' draft manifesto sparks controversy

Museum seeks funds to buy valuable Manet painting

The Ashmolean Museum launches campaign to raise nearly £8 million

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