Monday 2nd March 2026

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‘Connivery’ and ‘cheating’: Former officials interfered with Oxford Union tribunals

On 1st February, during a tribunal hearing, Samy Medjdoub – the former Secretary of the Oxford Union, who is currently suspended for having fabricated minutes – texted former President...

Students join protest outside re-opened Campsfield House

CW: Suicide  Students from the University of Oxford society Student Action For Refugees (STAR) today...

UKIP leader Nick Tenconi stages Cornmarket Street border control debate

Nick Tenconi, leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and Chief Operating Officer of Turning Point UK, visited Oxford today to take part in a public street debate on Cornmarket Street.

Royal Mail upgrades Oxford postboxes to ‘postboxes of the future’

Postboxes across Oxford – and across the UK – have been wrapped in black...

Tabs crushed at Fenner’s

One-DayCambridge (191-5) beat Oxford (190 all out) by 5 wicketsFour-DayOxford (610-5 dec) beat Cambridge (129 & 268) by an innings & 213 runsOxford extended...

Oxford earn thrilling win

Oxford (203-7) beat Cambridge (200 all out) by 3 wicketsOxford’s women claimed victory in an oustanding Varsity match, edging out a resurgent light blue...

New Shopping Centre Planned for Oxford

Big changes are planned for St Aldate's over the next few years. Development plans will see the previously unused part of the city transformed...

iLiKETRAiNS, Oxford Academy 2 (Zodiac), Saturday 29th September 2007

After receiving a considerable amount of indie hype over the last couple of years on the strength of some promising singles and last year’s...

John Hood Resists Government ‘Policing’ Pressure

Vice-Chancellor John Hood stood up to recent pressure from government over policing campus extremists yesterday.Recent government policy suggested heavier 'policing' at campuses, as a...

Time called on failing college bar

Health and safety inspectors have closed St Peter’s college bar after "significant failings" were unearthed during the summer, leading to the bar manager’s departure.The...

St John’s waive fees for asylum seeker

An asylum seeker who believed she would be unable to afford her place at Oxford has had her fees waived by St John’s College.Sholeem...

Presidents collide over OUSU fees

OUSU has clashed with the Oxford Union following a financial review that revealed generous subsidies for Union advertising were being paid without OUSU’s knowledge.Demands...

PPHs unfit for undergraduates

A review of Oxford’s Permanent Private Halls published last week has voiced concerns about their practices, academic standards and the experiences of those who...

Indefinite sentence for Oriel killer after his “ferocious and unrelenting” attack

I meet Jason Braham in a West London pub on a sunny day in September. He and his wife Julienne have come up to...

Key Hood ally ousted by University Congregation

Dons have forced one of Vice-Chancellor John Hood’s key modernisers to resign from the University Council after a rebellion against giving him a new...

Judge tells Oxford fundraiser to pay council tax despite rat infestation

An Oxford academic and fundraiser has been told that she must pay her council tax after she withheld it in protest at the city’s...

Graduate colleges to merge into Green Templeton

Plans to accommodate hundreds of additional graduate students to meet new University targets will be realised when Green and Templeton Colleges merge next year.The...

Triple attack on gay student clubbers

Three gay students were attacked outside the Coven II night club in the early hours of Saturday morning in what may have been a...

Merton retains Norrington top spot

Merton College remains top of the 2007 Norrington Table for the second year in a row, but the table continues to be criticised for...

Wildcat strike at Catz

St Catherine’s JCR have called a rent strike in protest at the College raising battels charges without consulting students or the College’s Governing Body.The...

How to get ahead in leadership

Have you noticed, thronging in quads and staring at architecture, groups of Malaysians that any sensible person would describe as ‘tourists’? And did you...

Beware colleges bearing gifts of welfare provision

Agatha Christie called herself a "perfect sausage machine", but her approach to murder was positively schizophrenic compared to the tabloids’ formulaic techniques. The perfect tabloid...

The latest review of drug legislation must not give in to media pressure

Endless newspaper reports link cannabis with suicides, murders and assaults. The headlines are dramatic: "Another cannabis teenager in knife killing: Boy on skunk butchered...

Got the Blues?

PERHAPS Oxford’s least-trumpeted asset is its ability to offer its students almost unparalleled opportunities to become involved in competitive sport whilst at university. Finding...

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