Friday 29th August 2025

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Gazan offer holders ‘relieved’ as government approves visas

Oxford University offer holders living in Gaza have told Cherwell that they feel “a deep sense of relief and hope” after the UK Government announced plans to approve visas...
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SU launches new community fund for society events

The Oxford University Student Union (SU) is launching a new community fund to support...
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SU Sabbatical Officers urge Government to “remove the barriers” to Gazan students reaching the UK

Sabbatical Officers at the Oxford University Student Union (SU) have signed an open letter...
News Conor Walsh and Arina Makarina -

Lindsay Skoll announced as new Jesus Principal

Jesus College have announced that British diplomat Lindsay Skoll will take up the role...
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Student bags searched as Bod tightens security

Security has been tightenedacross the University following the attacks by animal rights extremists overthe summer. Visitors to the Radcliffe Camera(Rad Cam) now have to...

Merton JCR to appoint anti-welfare officer

An anti-welfare rep is to beelected at Merton after the JCR unanimously passed a motion to institute theposition. A motion was submitted noting that...

Union speech protestors ousted by ‘burly’ officials

The President of Botswana’s visitto the Oxford Union on Friday 14 October was interrupted by 25 protesters fromSurvival International, some of whom were Oxford...

OUSU condemns Coke and urges NUS boycott

OUSU Council has passeda motion condemning Coca Cola and resolv­ing to cease commercial relations andall publicity with the company. It also resolves to lobby...

Welfare HIV e-mail hoax

A hoax e-mail warning ofHIV-positive needles being placed in cinema seats has caused panic across theUniversity as people anxiously forwarded the warning to friends....

‘What’s most interesting about squirrels?’ asks Admissions book

A book detailing bizarrequestions that have been asked at Oxbridge interviews has been produced by thecompany Oxbridge Applications. Tell Me About a Banana…So You...

University exhibits initial designs for Infirmary Masterplan

Oxford University has this week unveiled initialdesign plans as part of the Masterplan for the Radcliffe Infirmary developmentdue to commence mid-2007.The project team is...

Cleaners find faeces in SJC

Faeces and urine were found in St John’sCollege table tennis room by cleaning staff last Friday morning.Puddles of urine were discovered on the floor...

Oxford journalism success

Cherwell has been nominated for BestStudent Newspaper of the Year at the NUS/Mirror National Journalism Awards.Isis Magazine, which also is owned by Oxford Student...

ChCh poetry competition

The Christ Churchbased Christopher Tower Poetry competition has launched this year’s competitionwith a major increase in prize money. The competition, for budding poets aged16-18,...

Chinese funding scheme

Oxford University is establishing a newscholarship scheme for Chinese students. The project will run initially for twoyears from 2006 and is aimed at doctoral...

Fossils

Oxford-led palaeontologyresearchers have discovered some of the oldest, and smallest, remains of ourhuman relatives in Egypt.The mini teeth, jaw and facial bones of the...

BCG vaccine

A recent study led by Dr AjitLalvani, of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, has revealed that theBCG vaccine may not just prevent the...

Shelling out for Shelley

The Bodleian library and University College have acquired a new group ofletters written by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley who was a undergraduate at...

Physics prize for Don

Kenneth Peach, Visiting Professorof Physics at Oxford University and Director of the John Adams Institutefor Accelerator Science, has been awarded the prestigious Rutherford Medal...

In from the streets

We carried on as best as we could. My boyfriend became my full-time carer. I continued working but I was having seizures in front...

Eat: Chutney’s

Where to go… for a curry without the crew-dateWhere: Chutney’sWhy: The kind of cosy setting you would describe as ‘intimate’, with a colourful modern...

Obituary: the gap year

The life of the Gap Year, though short (but such an amazing experience) was a blessing to all of us - temping agencies in particular, as...

League opens with goalfest

The college football season got off to a scorching start last Wednesday with twenty-five goals scored in the first four Premier League matches. The...

Blues kick through Bees

Oxford 33Pertemps Bees 21The Blues bounced back from a difficult last week with a much improved performance to beat semi-professional Pertemps Bees 33-21 at...
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