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Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after registering with the Proctors.  After a six-month wait to approve their application, the political society announced...
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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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Oxford academics sign open letter opposing Nathan Cofnas’ suspension

Cofnas, a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium, and self-described “race realist”, was responsible for publicising allegations that the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday had plagiarised his doctoral thesis.
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Over 500 sign open letter urging Oxford to resist “transphobic” EHRC code

Oxford University LGBTQ+ Society (OULGBTQ) has urged the University of Oxford’s Vice Chancellor and the wider Oxford community “not to passively accept transphobia,” in an open letter signed by over 500 students and staff.
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Bishops to inspect Wycliffe

TROUBLED PPH Wycliffe Hall has come under further pressure after the Church of England announced this week that it had brought forward a scheduled...

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 Millie Maler, DPhil Candidate, AstrophysicsA third year graduate student at Christ Church reading for a DPhil in Astrophysics, last year Millie took astrophysics tutorials...

How to be Queen of the Bop

Known for cringeworthy music, precarious outfits and floors sticky with the spilled vodka-cokes and lager of over-excited or over-drunk students, the bop is as...

Look Mum, I’ve downloaded a first class degree!

Let’s flashback a few years. Remember waiting anxiously for those A-level results to see if you’d ever get to punt on the Isis and...

German humour, part 2

A bit better this. The originally-named satirical blog Satire Blog thinks the top dogs should rename Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport "Willy Brandt Airport", "Helmut Kohl...

Funfairs

People here go to funfairs, some people go twice a week. They look forward to it.The whole af-fair (apologies) began when I exitted the...

Laptops Stolen From Office

£3000 worth of computers were stolen from an office in South Bar, Banbury, on Monday night.Four Toshiba laptops, each costing around £800, were stolen...

Plans for New Exchange Programme Announced

Plans have been announced for a new exchange programme with a university in Taiwan. Earlier this month the President of the National Taiwan University...

Review: Slam Poetry at the Port Mahon 15/10/07

By William HarrisHammer and Tongue 'Protect the Human' Poetry Slam “We’re running on poetry time”, said the bubbly, pink-clad Sophia Blackwell. That’s when...

First Night Review: Greek

by Marley Morris Berkoff’s tragedy ‘Greek’, based on Sophocles’ ‘Oedipus Rex’, thrusts in front of us a vision of a decadent and brutal London.  It...

First Night Review: Chicken Farmer

by Marc Kidson It is a pet fact of many History teachers that before becoming one of the chief architects of mass murder for the...

Sniffling and Spluttering? Help is at Hand…

The problem with having a cold is that people don’t generally feel sorry for you. In fact, they tend to feel rather annoyed. Your...

First Night Review: Fewer Emergencies

 by Luke Bullock  I have to admit that I went to see Martin Crimp’s Fewer Emergencies with a degree of trepidation.  Like many theatregoers these...

Oxford Academic lands Australian University Top Position

A leading Oxford academic is to take on the position of vice Chancellor at Sydney University next year. Michael Spence, an expert in intellectual...

Cherwell24 Comment: Tom Lowe

When I applied to Oxford I didn’t really understand how the collegiate system worked. To the naïve Irish kid, the only difference between Hertford and...

Architect opposes boatyard redevelopment

Local residents campaigning against the redevelopment of a historic boatyard in Jericho were joined today by a senior architect condemning the plans.A former president...

German humour, part 1

The usually serious weekly broadsheet Die Zeit has allowed a bit of rare 'humour' to fill its politics pages this week. German speakers might...
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