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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."

I Love Peach Blossom

Review by Rees Arnott-Davies.One anticipates when seeing a play in a foreign language (especially one so distant as Mandarin) that something is always going...

Desert of the Real

Review by Frankie ParhamConflict can always make good drama. From Homer’s Iliad to Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, warfare offers the perfect environment for man...

Video: The Wychwood Warriors

Max Thompson and Rachel Fraser find out what it is to be a Viking in the 21st century.

Week 5 Mid-Week News

Sangwon Yoon and Jenny Moore keep us update on news this week in the mid-week news round up . 

Tosh. Or a joke, perhaps

The excellent German blog Die Achse des Guten ("The Axis of Good") has drawn my attention to this bizarre claim in today's Daily Record:Legendary...

Facebookieren

It didn't take long to notice that the Germans have no equivalent of the verb "to facebook".So I thought I'd coin one. "Facebookieren."It uses...

Anarchists

Last Saturday, I went to my first ever anarchist non-party. That is not to say that it was an non-anarchist party as I went...

Blues Athlete of the Week -Beth Wild

College: St Hilda's Clubs: Oxford University Hockey Club, Oxford University Women’s Cricket Club Year/Course: 3rd Year Geography Positions: Centre Forward, RHB, OB  How are you preparing for Hockey...

Exhibition Review: Helen Ganly: Journey into Light

What do a cake of the Radcliffe Camera, a stencil, a video of a river and a pile of notebooks have in common? -...

Book Depository Decision Delayed

A bid by Oxford University to build a £29m book depository will now be decidedin early May, pending a planning inquiry. Permission for the...

German quote of the week

Thanks to the big screen in the Frankfurt underground for this: Der Utopist sieht das Paradies, der Realist das Paradies plus Schlange — Friedrich...

Here’s one lot who’ll be smiling about the Guevara story

I should welcome Billy as the latest entrant to the Cherwell24 blogging community. His funereal post on how McCain’s going to be six feet...

Single Review: David Ford, "I’m Alright Now"

February 14th sees the release of “I’m Alright Now”, the newest single from English singer-songwriter David Ford. Thematically, the single sits between the somewhat...

Maggini String Quartet at the Hollywell Music room, 10th February 2008

The Maggini String Quartet gave a solid performance of a diverse and challenging programme at the Holywell Music Room, as part of the...

Quartetto di Cremona at the Holywell Music Room, 10th February 2008

Click here to listen to the Quartetto di Cremona performing Haydn op.76 n.4 Sunrise Menuet.  Four men, three unshaven, enter the room wearing dark suits:...

Oxford Philomusica play Tchaikovsky, 8/2/2008

Oxford Philomusica play Tchaikovsky, 8/2/2008   “Worthless, unplayable”, said Nikolai Rubenstein of Tchaikovsky’s first piano concerto soon after it was written.  Yet it has...

Catching the tiger and the dragon

I think we all agree now that China and India are the economic powers of the future. But do the German media do justice...

Foreign Students like "Safe" UK

95 per cent of international students rate Britain as being an “attractive or very attractive” place to study, research has shown.The study, undertaken by...

Coffee Concert: The Adderbury Ensemble playing Vaughan-Williams and Mozart

Holywell Music Room, 3rd February 2008  Every Sunday morning at the Holywell Music Room some of Britain’s finest musicians come to display...

DJ Hazard Interview

Friday 8th February @ Hit & Run’s 7th Birthday Tru Playaz night. Carling Academy, Oxford. On Friday night, I made my way...

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