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VIDEO: Student candidates fail to beat Lib Dems in Holywell Ward, but Labour win control of the City Council.

An email sent by Proctors last Friday warning against plagiarism caused confusion for some students who thought it was intended specifically for them. Students across the University emailed their tutors to ask if they were being disciplined. One Keble undergraduate concerned by the message said, “The email was a bit worrying.” “As far as I was aware I hadn’t engaged in any such activity, but I did email my tutor to say what I had received and that since none of the other Keble geography students has received his, ask if he had reported my work to the Proctors.” Academic registrar Michael Sibly claims he was asked to send the email by previous and current proctors in an attempt to make students aware of the regulations regarding plagiarism. “Whenever this [plagiarism] becomes an issue students often say that they just didn’t know,” he said. Sibly admitted that it was “mildly ambiguous” that the message, whic

Motion to rename college ‘The Socialist College of Keble’ falls flat at JCR meeting.

The average weekly student rent in the UK now stands at £61.48, a 1.5% increase from last year's figure according to statistics from accommodationforstudents.com.

One commenter has had cause to question Aldate's independence.  Be assured that this blogger maintains a professional distance from all Oxford media outlets... unlike some.   Word reaches Aldate that Martin McCluskey and his in-house newspaper are getting a little too close for comfort. It would seem that the OUSU President is a regular attendee at OxStu weekly meetings, 'just for fun,' and a recent sneaky peek at his mobile revealed his inbox to be full of texts from:   - Holehouse - Holehouse - Holehouse - Mum - Holehouse - Holehouse - Holehouse - Mum Let's hope the Stu's star reporter isn't being influenced by those in need of some positive PR.

Swing when you're winning, says Ash Barker.

Wadstock has also been marred by allegations of ticket touting.

A student-run initiative is pushing for pay of at least £7 per hour for all College workers.

Dean appeals for help after a student was attacked over a Tibetan flag.

Tom Callard has said he will be issuing “a full apology” after JCR members proposed a motion of censure against him.

 

The student was attacked by protesters before being fined £80 by police.

Students coughed up more £10,000 for trashings last year.

Double standards in network enforcement have left many students angry.

Union President says that he doesn't want “needless controversy”.

Oxford University has come top of The Good University Guide's national league table for the sixth time in seven years.   Vice-Chancellor John Hood said: "Oxford’s top position is the result of the commitment and enthusiasm of our outstanding scholars and students, assisted by committed administrative and support staff."   The University also came first in the subject tables for Geology, Middle Eastern and African Studies, Music and Politics.   More from The Independent

An Oxford scientist, Professor Gero Miesenböck, has made female flies produce the male courtship song using remote brain control.   The brain control techniques, which Miesenböck pioneered 3 years ago, use a laser to trigger certain actions. The ‘song’, which flies make by vibrating a wing, is never produced by females, so the findings indicate an astonishing similarity in male and female fly brains.   “Anatomically, the differences are so subtle,” Miesenböck told the Telegraph, “How is it that the neural equipment is so similar, but the sexes behave so differently?”   Researchers suggest that fly brains may have a ‘master switch’ that determines male or female behaviour.

Magdalen College voted by 98 votes to 28 on Tuesday to reaffiliate to the student union.   The college has been disaffiliated since Trinity Term 2007. 

Despite being dubbed the 'quad squad', they can only enter colleges if invited. 

All Souls and University Colleges, and Steve Howell, Head of Transport for Oxfordshire County Council, have publicly taken swipes at each other over the issue of signage and buses on Oxford's High Street. News that the Council wished to site more bus stops on the High Street, including one possibly in front of All Souls main gateway, has prompted a scathing attack on the Council's "vandalism" of the street, with All Souls bursar Thomas Seaman deriding the Council as being more concerned with bus passengers than they are with the environment or those organisations situated on the High Street. The Warden of All Souls, Dr. John Davis also expressed concern over the pollution control monitor at the front of the college, that he says the Council said was only temporary. Howell's reply cites the improvement in paving and road surfaces, and a claimed de-cluttering of signage as evidence of the Council's commitment to the welfare of the High Street, and cit