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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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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...

Exeter blown apart by Hall in point-a-minute thriller

Exeter 15Teddy Hall 76Teddy Hall continued their assault on the college rugby league with an embarrassingly one-sided victory over Exeter. The forwards set up...

Queen’s start season in style

Queen’s 4Corpus/Wadham 1Queen’s made a convincing start to their college hockey season with 4-1 defeat of Corpus/Wadham on Saturday. Queen’s dominated territory and possession,...

Unity and pride

They walked onto the podium wearing black socks and no shoes, to symbolise black poverty, and the badges of the Olympic Project for Human...

What’s all this fuss about Andy Murray for?

The frenzy surrounding Andy Murray’s emergence at Wimbledon earlier this year was overwhelming. You could hardly open a newspaper without seeing his face gurning...

Des Lynam: Dreamboat of the Desperate Housewife

Even for a man who’s been to seven Olympic games, numerous Wimbeldons and has travelled to World Cups and European Championships, October is going...

Passe Notes: The Oxford Union

So, how long do we have to stand in this queue?Well, everyone in Oxford wants to see the no confidence debate. Unless their lack...
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