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Over 10% of Oxford offers come from just 14 schools

Many schools across the country dream of sending just one student to Oxford. For some, though, it’s an expectation. The image of Oxford as a training ground for the elite...

Exclusive: University spent over £360,000 in pro-Palestine protest clean-ups

Oxford University has incurred over £360,000 in costs as a result of pro-Palestine protests...

Pro-Palestine encampment established outside Magdalen

As of Sunday morning, the encampment has since disbanded, having relocated to the Angel...

Ukrainian energy delegation meets with Christ Church academics

A delegation from the Ukrainian government visited Christ Church on Friday 25th April to...

Rout sends Oxford up to cloud nine

Oxford 9 - 1 LeicesterAS THE dark clouds of October descended over Iffley Road, it seemed only the glaring pink jerseys of the two...

Amen, Greyfriars

Outraged students at Greyfriars have attacked the Hall authorities’ decision to permanently close without consulting any members of the student body.Greyfriars, one of the...

Blues leagues ahead of sorry Coventry

AFTER arriving ten minutes after the scheduled kick off time, Coventry must have hoped that it was time for their luck to change. Instead,...

Diary of a captain – Boxing

SOME flirt with the idea for a few sessions, maybe even a fortnight, but you can spot the reaction in people’s faces: this is...

Union snared in academics’ feud

A Union debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict almost collapsed on Tuesday after President Luke Tryl retracted an invitation to controversial writer Norman Finklestein, alleging...

Oxbridge Escorts

Varsity, Cambridge University’s student newspaper, started something big last week. It claims to have discovered students working as escorts, strippers and prostitutes to help...

JCRs call for no-platform referendum

JCR presidents are calling for a University-wide referendum on OUSU’s no-platform policy, claiming that “all members of OUSU should have a say in such...

Champs march towards title

Catz 3 - 51 Keble THE  reigning champions Keble virtually secured their crown for the third successive season, touching down seven tries on their way...

John Simpson

Everything’s going to be alright. Sort of. This is the message of John Simpson’s new book, Not Quite World’s End. Bombs may be falling,...

Careers advisor challenges summer internships

An Oxford University Careers Service advisor has claimed that students undertaking summer internships feel drained and unfit to continue their final year of study.Alison...

Catz underline promotion credentials with narrow win

BOTH Catz and Keble were relegated from last season’s premier division and each side was eager to demonstrate their wish to return to the...

Restaurant Review: Qumins

On first impressions, I could never have guessed what a disappointment Qumin’s would be. The waiters were friendly, the surroundings were modern yet cosy...

Just a Peep

By Phil Aherne Why do a different version of the show at the Burton-Taylor?Ben: It was mainly to give a better idea of what the...

Turkish leader declares war at Union

THE TURKISH Prime Minister told members of the Oxford Union on Monday night that he believed military action against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq...

Cherwell reviews the term’s play so far

WITH three weeks of term already behind us and sides beginning to settle after the influx of freshers, the league tables in college rugby...

Flip Side: Political Apathy

Jack Marley-Payne Promoting political apathy is likely to kick up a pretty impressive storm of indignation, so I better begin with a few concessions: politics...

Professor reopens immigration row

An Oxford Professor of demography announced this week that the UK’s total population is likely to spiral to over 75 million by 2050, threatening...

Rebuilding Mother Russia

It is a sweltering July day: the Russian weather, like the Russian soul, is a creature of passionate extremes. Natasha and I are sitting...

Isis haze for drug advocating MP

A CONTENDER for the Liberal Democrat leadership has claimed he “can’t remember” writing an article advocating the use of hard drugs which appeared under...

Big Brother: Stress in the Stacks

Back in those halcyon pre-Oxford days, the library was a place one might  quite easily walk past every day for twenty years and never...

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