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Plans for new Oxford graduate college approved

Oxford City Council has approved plans for a new postgraduate medical college in Headington. The plans also include a mental health hospital and a modern facility for brain sciences research, forming a new Warneford Park development centred on mental health and brain research.

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Union President-Elect found guilty of electoral fraud by Tribunal

Catherine Xu, the Oxford Union’s President-Elect for Michaelmas 2026, has been permanently barred from holding office at the Society after an Election Tribunal found that she orchestrated a scheme to impersonate legitimate voters at the Hilary Term 2026 election.

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Honorary Degree recipients announced for 2026

The University of Oxford has announced its 2026 honorary degree recipients, with seven individuals to be conferred with degrees at the Encaenia ceremony on 24th June.

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Oxford research changes scientists’ understanding of the development of complex life

A collaborative study by researchers from the University of Oxford’s Museum of Natural History and Oxford’s Department of Earth Science, alongside experts from Yunnan University in China, has shown that complex animal life developed earlier than previously thought.

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My Cyber-friends have manners too

My mother says the scariest thing about Facebook is that there are no rules. How can I distinguish love interests from professional contacts when...

Strickland goes for MP

Earlier this week saw former OUSU President Alan Strickland vying to take over Tony Blair’s position as MP for Sedgefield. After more than 50...

Summer Archival

We've been getting a lot of questions about site archiving. Please rest assured we have not forgotten you or your previous work! We'll be...

I’m Running Faster, but the Finish Line is further away

There's a weird paradox in the way Gen Y lives and works. Everywhere I am reading about how the Millennials are super-driven, hyper-informed, search...

"Are We There Yet?": Interview with Rosie Whitehouse

In Sarajevo, as the wife of a BBC war correspondent, Rosie Whitehouse and her five children “heard the firing of the shots that started...

Voteforme.com: electoral politics and Web 2.0

Once upon a time, Facebook was for Ivy Leaguers, iPods were for tech geeks, and CNN was for the politicos.Nowadays, Oxford tutors are on...

Coffee Break: Introducing Instant Cappuccino

Hi all,I’m taking a break from end-of-year packing to introduce myself, and this blog, to you. Mine is a big packing job, since I’m...

First Night Review: The Balcony

Genet’s The Balcony is a very strange play. First performed in London in 1957, its opening night was laced with drama as Genet accused...

First Night Review: Government Inspector

This version of ‘The Government Inspector’, directed by Sophie Pinn, is a lively, fast-moving comedy that provides a fun night of light entertainment. Gogol’s...

‘Big Damn Movie’ on the Big Damn Screen: Firefly / Serenity at the UPP

I’ve just heard that some members of OU staff are screening the feature-length pilot of Joss Whedon’s show Firefly at the Ultimate Picture Palace...

The Writing on the Wall

Graffiti currently covers most international cities’ public surfaces and urban scrawl can even be seen deep into the suburbs and country villages. Yet debates...

Feature: The "Mile" High Club

t’s that time of the year again. Thesps all over Oxford are frantically scouring the OUDS website in search of a ‘free’ ticket to...

Aeneid: The Musical

Aeneid: The Musical is thigh-slapping, hearty, old-fashioned nerdy fun. The classics department’s jolly panto is high-brow slapstick; it’s not veering into the sub-terrain of...

The Balcony

Trinity 8th Week has got to be the elephant’s graveyard of serious drama. All the big productions with your Chanyas and your Charlies have...

The Government Inspector

Set in Tsarist Russia, this fast-moving, almost corybantic comedy of errors extols the energy of a Carry On and farcical irony of an episode...

Product

For those of you who believe that a play marketing itself as a "monologue for two" smacks of typical Oxford pretention, go against your...

I Once Was Lost

Film enthusiasts call a film once thought to be lost and subsequently recovered a ‘Lazarus film’, after the distinctly dead man whom the Good...

Ocean’s 13

It’s back again. Following the logical pattern of increasing numbers (i.e. counting), we now have Ocean’s Thirteen. Perhaps Ron Howard should have used the...

Taking Liberties

The government doesn’t want you to watch this film. You might get ideas. You might get angry. Or at least, Chris Atkins hopes so....

Chumscrubber

This film tells the story of a revenge kidnapping amongst a group of teenagers whose drug dealer commits suicide. Jamie Bell stars as the...

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