Thursday 26th June 2025

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Encaenia in photos: Oxford’s honorary degree award ceremony

The University of Oxford awarded eight honorary degrees at its annual Encaenia awards ceremony today. Among the recipients were British athlete and Olympian Sir Mo Farah; Irish author and...

Oxford admissions report reveals significant college and subject disparities

Oxford University has released its Annual Admissions Statistical Report, providing information about undergraduate applications,...

Oxford Union believes the commodification of women has gone too far

Last Thursday, the Oxford Union passed the motion “This House believes that the commodification...

Exclusive: St Catz racks up £3.4 million bill on concrete repairs

St Catherine’s College spent over £3.4 million in less than one year due to...

Don’t mention the w-word

Mixed messages for the grim North from the Munich-based Süddeutsche Zeitung. A travel piece on the east coast of England from the Wash upwards...

You started it… You invented printing

It’s some 600 years since Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was born in the historic German city of Mainz. After moving to...

Review: Norman Lovett

Familiar to many as “Holly” from the BBC sitcom Red Dwarf, Norman Lovett will be coming to St Hilda’s Jacqueline du Pré Building on...

Sir Victor Blank bows to pressure to quit University Council

A senior businessman who sits on the highest executive body in the University has stepped down after a group of dons launched an offensive...

Sizing Up the Internet

While the editors here at 24 have been updating our archives, I have been somewhat off-duty in my coverage of the Internet and student...

University Trials Free Cycle Service

Staff at Oxford University will soon be able to use a free ‘pick up and pedal’ cycling scheme, inspired by those set up in London and...

Seasick Steve at the Edinburgh Fringe

'Got any spare change, Stevie?' yells a Scot from the back of the sell-out crowd. 'I do now, brother,' replies Steve. 'An' it's mostly...

Online UCAS delays

UCAS’ move to scrap traditional paper applications in favour of the online system has caused problems in the efficiency of this year’s Oxford admissions...

A Victorian invasion

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Hollywood studio in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a Victorian novel...

Draft corporate plan may lead to graduate cuts

A follow up to January’s Green Paper on university governance has been published outlining a strategy for improving the University’s financial status. In a...

Review: Seasick Steve

'Got any spare change, Stevie?' yells a Scot from the back of the sell-out crowd. 'I do now, brother,' replies Steve. 'An' it's mostly...

Police Plan Cowley Road Crackdown

Police are planning a crackdown on alcohol-related crime in the Cowley Road area, to coincide with the return of students.The first two weeks of...

Pick of the week

Best start to the termWith a distinct absence of plays kicking off Trinity Term, there is disappointingly little competition for this slot. Be this...

Oxford tops University league tables

Oxford has come top of a list of UK universities in an annual study carried out byThe Guardian and Campus Pi, an applied research...

Oxbridge airline fails to get off the ground in time

AlphaOne Airways, an airline started by eighteen year old Oxfordshire resident Martin Halstead, has delayed all flight activity until further notice, failing to make...

Reality Show Restaurant Goes Bust

Oxford restaurant Porters, which features in chef Raymond Blanc’s new reality TV show ‘The Restaurant’, has closed.The show sees nine couples take an empty...

Life in the Fast Lane

A motorist has admitted to travelling at 172mph on a road in Oxfordshire – the fastest speeding incident of its kind recorded in Britain. ...

Cherwell24 meets poet Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis performs one of her poems for Cherwell24 at the Oxford Literary Festival 2007.

Oxford beats Cambridge to Top Spot

Oxford has beaten Cambridge to the top spot in the Times Good University Guide for the sixth year running, reports The Times Online.Cambridge came...

The Summer Blog: A-Level Results, Archives and Everything Else

Hello! Over the past few days, you might have noticed that the site has been offline. This is because we are currently moving the archived articles from...

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