Monday 23rd June 2025

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Oxford admissions report reveals significant college and subject disparities

Oxford University has released its Annual Admissions Statistical Report, providing information about undergraduate applications, offers, and admissions. It reveals a mixed picture, particularly between colleges and subjects, on areas...

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...

Former EiCs criticise OxStu independence decision

Oxford Student Union’s (SU) announcement that The Oxford Student will begin the process of...

BBC comedy visionary awarded Murdoch professorship

Comedy writer Armando Iannucci hasbeen appointed as the next news International Visiting Professor of BroadcastMedia. Iannuchi, who wrote and directed I’m Alan Partridge with...

It’ll break your heart

The Beat That My Heart Skippeddir Jacques Audiardout nowA film that shows the transition of a man from sleazy debt collector to passionate classical...

Corpus/Somerville win relegation battle with Exeter

Corpus/Somerville kept themselves in top flight rugby for at least another week with a 35-8 win over Exeter in a high quality relegation dogfight....

Crowd heckles Rocky Horror Show at OFS

TheOld Fire Station nightclub on GeorgeStreet cut short a produc­tion of the rocky HorrorShow on Monday night following rowdiness and complaints from audience members....

An un-natural storm

Here’s how it goes: a young band is spotted in the right place, at the right time, by the right person, who immediately signs...

Oxford women secure tight league victory over Tabs

Oxford 59-Cambridge 56: The Oxford Women’s Basketball team got their season off to a positive start in the University League with a close victory...

Ex Hilda’s Principal and pro-Vice Chancellor dies at 92

Mary Bennett, the former Principal of St. Hilda’s College, has died in her home at the age of 92. Mary Bennett was Principal of...

Destined for success

#1’sdestiny’s ChildOut nowDo Destiny’s Child really need to bother with another album? Beyoncé Knowles is Rr‘n’B’s undeniable queen, hunted down for her services in...

Refugee studies centre earns extra funding from government

The Refugee Studies Centre, a division of the University of Oxford’s Centre for Development Studies, has this month been awarded £2.5 million in government...

The demise of broadmindedness

A friend of mine was recently told by his economics tutor that “you used to be able to get a First in PPE if...

Music

Fabric 25Carl Craigout 7 NovemberThink you don’t like techno? Have a listen to this release and you’ll think again. It’s strangely accessible and challenging,...

Swimmers excel at season opener

Despite being early in the season, the standard of the competition was high. The men’s 100m freestyle which saw Oxford new recruit Josh Preston...

A slanging match

Cherwell notes with relief the return to form of those two bastions of political potty-training, OULC and OUCA, just when things seemed to be...

Wheels within wheels

The Caucasian Chalk Circledir Lily Sykes9 - 12 NovemberThe Oxford PlayhouseThe Caucasian Chalk Circle is Bertolt Brecht’s epic tale of the struggle for sympathetic...

Student stunt death avoidable

The death of an Oxford student flung tothe ground by a stunt catapult in 2002 could have been prevented if furthersafety tests had been...

Commercial success for chemists’ spin off

Acompany founded by Oxford University Chemists has doubled in value since lastyear and is now estimated to be worth £58 million.The company, VaSTox Plc,...

Foreign theatre

Masqueradedir Rrimas Tuminas25 - 29 OctoberThe Oxford PlayhouseMikhail Lermontov, the great Rrussian playwright, had a fatal penchant for duelling. Fuelled with vodka, the duels...

Congregation dons raise reform concerns

Controversial measures to reform the way the University is run were the subject of a heated discussion at a meet­ing of Congregation, the University’s...

How would you like to die?

Some go peacefully, some “rage against the dying of the light”, some do it themselves,some let nature take its course, for some it is...

The play’s the thing

This autumn the BBC is laying on a lavish feast. Aas Rradio 3 announces a four year project to dramatise seventeen of the bard’s...

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