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Oxford falls to lowest ever spot in The Times UK University Guide 2027

The University of Oxford has placed fifth in The Times’s 2027 UK university rankings, falling from joint fourth with the University of Cambridge last year. This marks Oxford’s lowest ranking in the guide’s 33 year history and only the second time the University has not been in the top three.

Protest held outside Town Hall over sale of Council-owned building to St Peter’s

A protest took place today outside Oxford Town Hall against Oxford City Council’s plan to sell 11 New Road to St Peter’s College, which would convert most of the building into student housing.

Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after...

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."

Justified…

People often describe Hollywood as a strange beast, by which they tend to mean it has a closed, glazed expression, piercing eyes, and a...

Suffering OUSU

The agenda for last Friday’s OUSU council meeting, where a vote toboycott Coca-Cola was passed by an overwhelming majority, contains twopoints of significant interest....

Tired of helping the Third World

I recently sponsored a friend of mine to go on a Rhino Run. This rather bizarre excursion involves jogging for many miles in a...

Justified

Few things in life can be said with certainty. The fact that the majority of people who come out of Oxford will go on...

Bachelors in the art of seduction

We live, it is said, in a city of beautiful buildings and ugly people. We are continually portrayed as lacking passion and social skills,...

The world is no longer a stage

Optimists for the future of British theatre have recently had little tosmile at owing to the plethora of articles by smug Fleet Streetjournalists who...

A case of a lack of ‘art?

What polystyrene is lacking aesthetically it usually makes up for infunctionality and low cost. More commonly known for its kebab-bearing virtues, the lightweight plastic...

The Talking Horse

Long-time childrens’ author Mark Haddon took the bestseller lists by surprise with the success of his last offering, Whitbreadwinning novel The Curious Incident of...

Coffee and broken flowers

Broken Flowersdir Jim Jarmusch4/5Director Jim Jarmusch won the Grand Prix at Cannes 2005 for BrokenFlowers, for which he also wrote the screenplay. Known as...

Sky High

Sky Highdir Mike Mitchell2/5Billed as the American answer to the Harry Potter series, Disney’s SkyHigh has raised expectations in line with its title. It...

The original material girl

The story goes that when Queen Marie-Antoinette was told that the French people were starving through a lack of bread, she flippantly replied, “If...

Student sexually assaulted in Cowley

Police are appealing for witnesses after an Oxford student was sexually assaulted in the early hours of last Thursday. The incident occurred at around...

OUSU VP (Women) position survives referendum threat

A motion to hold a referendum onwhether the OUSU position of Vice-President (Women) should be kept has beenrejected by members of OUSU council. The...

Hilda’s matriculation crashed

Two male students from StCatherine’s gatecrashed St Hilda’s matriculation photoshoot on Saturday, and willappear on one of the photos that will be available for...

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...

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