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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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Mohsin Khan compares foreign arthouse to eating cornflakesForeign art-house cinéma: it makes you think of cultured ideas and high-brow creativity. The reality? Boredom, immaturity,...

Foreign art-house cinéma: it makes you think of cultured ideas and high-brow creativity

Foreign art-house cinéma: it makes you think of cultured ideas and high-brow creativity. The reality? Boredom, immaturity, wanton shock, and two minutes of cleverness...

Man in the Chair

4/525 January Ageism is not an easy subject for a filmmaker to tackle. Any film with an axe to grind runs the risk of...

Greater than its parts

Album review: Love Is All Mixed Up by Love Is All Modern Swedish music seems to be making quite a splash recently, with bands such as...

In the Valley of Elah

5/525 JanuaryThe clever approach of this thoughtful anti-war film lies in its choice of protagonist: Tommy Lee Jones plays a patriot, whose loss of...

Wanted: New Singer

 Album review: Beat Pyramid by These New Puritans Every song on this album follows the pattern of opening track, ‘Numerology’. An insistent drum-beat starts out, broken...

Life is like a box of chocolates…

Gareth Peters explores the allure of chocolate In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, one of my favourite children’s novels, most readers shriek with...

Burton’s Bloody Barber

Sweeney Todd3/525 JanuaryBetween the spurting blood, churning human flesh, and snapping necks, Tim Burton’s film of Stephen Sondheim’s musical retelling of Sweeney Todd, the...

The Flu Season

 2/529 JanuaryWill Eno’s The Flu Season sends out a very clear message: ‘This is drama! You need to switch your brain on.’ It’s a...

Running Out Of Steam

Athlete live at the Carling Academy, OxfordBoth papers sniggered at Athlete in their listings section last week, the full weight of Oxford snobbery crushing...

Alice is no child’s play

Frankie Parham discovers oysters and boiler suits in Through the Looking Glass4/5With the pantomime season over, audiences may find it hard to stomach more...

The Local: Orchestra Europa with James Bowman

Scott Ellaway, formerly organ scholar at Keble College, and James Bowman, previously a choral scholar at New, are just two of Oxford’s alumni making...

The Big Idea

 Ryan Hocking gets ideas from concept theatreA trip to the theatre evokes one of two images. The first is a mandatory, dreary trip with...

A day at the museum

Chris Baraniuk joins the 'cultured' crowdsYou might think that an afternoon trip to the Louvre in Paris would be a pretty tranquil outing....

Cuppers campaign gets serious

Lincoln v LMH Friday 25 January 14:00 Lincoln will be desperate to show that they are still a force to be reckoned with in...

Some perspective on a week of rain and cancellations

The rain. It never stops, does it? So there goes another week of wasted Oxford sporting talent, and they say more downpours are on...

Trinity/LMH survive relegation thriller

Christ Church 15 - 17 Trinity/LMH After a titanic match, in which the pressure of the occasion seemed at times to overwhelm both sides, it...

Blues still in the chase for BUSA league

by Paul Rainford - Blues football CaptainThe situation is no longer quite so simple. The 1-1 draw against Nottingham on Wednesday, in conjunction with...

Swimmers prepare for Varsity

Oxford University Swimming Club has just returned from a fantastic training camp in Lignano, which we hope will be a precursor to victory in...

Oxford register impressive victory away

After a disappointing 1-0 loss to Oxford Hawks, Oxford were looking to get back to the form they had showed before Christmas with a...
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