Wednesday 6th August 2025

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Lindsay Skoll announced as new Jesus Principal

Jesus College have announced that British diplomat Lindsay Skoll will take up the role of Principal from next year. She is the first woman to be elected to the...

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)...

King Charles opens new wing at Centre for Islamic Studies

His Majesty King Charles III visited the University of Oxford last week to open...

Sex pest harasses Corpus women

Police advise women to take care at night in Cowley/Iffley area

Students abuse travel grants

Drugs, clubs and sex on the beach: the real destination of educational travel grants

Balliol burglar may be student

Police are appealing for help after a burglar escaped porters at Balliol College.

The Futureheads – “This is not the world”

Monique Davis is underwhelmed by The Futureheads' latest offering

VIDEO: Protests mar Israel festival

Palestine supporters descend on iFest "Camels in Oxford" event, despite organisers' call to leave politics aside.

Union rule change poll opens

Members of the Oxford Union are voting today on a proposed change to the debating society's election regulations, despite a mistake in election publicity.   It emerged this weekend that printed publicity for the poll was erroneous, leaving out part of the proposed rule change.  A corrected version has been published on the Oxford Union website.   The poll closes at 9pm.   See also: Omkar triggers Union poll  

Bridge forced to clean up

Popular student nightclub The Bridge has been forced to change its door entry policies and has been forbidden from using glass bottles and glasses following a review of the club’s licence by Oxford City Council’s Licensing sub-committee.   The club will now be unable to admit customers in the hour before closing time. It will also have to serve drinks in polycarbonate containers as opposed to glass. 

Polish students in Oxford

Oxford University welcomed Committee members from Polish Societies across the country this weekend for the ‘Leading Our Future’ event, a Congress organised by students at the universities of Oxford and St Andrews.   Professor Zbigniew Pelczynski, former tutor at Pembroke, hosted some 60 students on the three-day event, which featured discussion panels, group workshops and leadership training.   Guest speakers included Oxford graduate and current Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radek Sikorski, and Professor Leszek Kolakowski, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls.

Music harms environment

Preliminary research conducted at Oxford University indicates that the UK music industry produces up to one million tonnes of CO2 annually.   The University’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI) believes the main contributors to be live concerts, the mass production and sale of music products and UK artists going on tour throughout the globe.   The ECI and Julie’s Bicycle, the organisation that commissioned the research, urge the UK music industry to think and act more greenly which they believe will inspire other companies as well.

College blamed for disease outbreak

Pembroke's JCR President has accused the college of putting students’ lives at risk.

Finalists evicted without warning

Landlord failed to keep up mortgage repayments.

JCR President told to plump up

President “dangerously close to being presentable and/or ‘attractive’”    

Case of meningitis at Catz

Male Welfare Rep praised for prompt reaction.  

Field trip price causes upset

Price of “massive piss-up” geography trip to Crete varied between colleges.

BNC fresher up for rural award

PPEist's one-man pig business shortlisted for Yorkshire Rural Award.

Oxford to profit from GTA IV

Zoology department research used to mimic human movement in best-selling video game.

Neighbourhood Watch: Figment

Sean Lennon digs the fig.

Omkar triggers Union poll

Two terms after Krishna Omkar was disqualified from Union elections, the ex-Treasurer is still trying to change the rules that ban him from running.

Anne’s flag tension escalates

UPDATED: Atmosphere in college "awkward" as political stand-off develops.{multithumb}

Four take May Day leap

Four men jumped into the River Cherwell within minutes of Magdalen Bridge re-opening.

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