Thursday 15th January 2026

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EIT Global President Santa Ono elected senior research fellow at Worcester College

Worcester College has elected Professor Santa Ono – the current Global President of the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT) and President of EIT Oxford – to a senior research...

Farmers block traffic outside Exam Schools to protest minister’s visit

The Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs secretary Emma Reynolds was giving a speech at the Oxford Farming Conference, hosted in the Examination Schools 

£17,000 on grass, redacted files, and 250,000 parcels: Cherwell’s 2025 FOI review

As the Cherwell Investigations team, we take our job very seriously. A big part...

Vice-Chancellor’s pay package rises to £666,000, among highest paid in Russell Group

This represents a 2.5% increase in her base salary, placing her as one of the highest paid Vice-Chancellors across Russell Group universities.

Nose runs to Hockey Cuppers victory

Brasenose won their second Mixed Hockey Cuppers title in three years after defeating a combined LMH/ Trinity side 1-0 in at Iffley Road. ...

Parker’s Party in the Parks

A sublime fourth-wicket partnership for Oxford on Monday saw off Cardiff ’s hopes of victory in the Parks after two days of edge-of-theseat action....

Terminal collapse kills four

Part of a terminal at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris collapsed on Sunday killing four people and injuring three others. A thirty...

‘Such a Terrible Waste’

St Catherine’s student dies after traffic accident on Cowley Road Emilie Harris, a twenty-year-old student at St Catherine’s College, has been killed after being...

Student ‘critical’ after fall

A Christ Church student is in a critical condition in hospital after falling from a first-floor window in Blue Boar Quad. The first...

Anger at ‘costly’ Oriel rejection

The decision by Oriel undergraduates to remain outside OUSU has been criticised by 23 JCR Presidents who feel that their members “subsidise” services which...

OUSU gambles with new Entz venture

After a year in which OUSU made less than £5,000 from running Entz, the student union has decided to create a position with a...

Black bike market at Union

Questions of dodgy dealing have arisen regarding the sale of bicycles at the Oxford Union this week, following a complaint from a student who...

Radiohead serenade Oxford

A lucky Oxford audience salivated over a topless Jude Law and bartered over Jonny Depp’s pants last Sunday to raise money for terminally ill...

Oxford to be cigarette free city?

An Oxford city councillor has called for a citywide ban on smoking in public places, provoking anger from city pubs and students. Susanna...

Shotgun hold-up at Co-op

Two men violently robbed an Oxford supermarket last Friday night, escaping with a five-figure sum. The robbery occurred at approximately 10.30pm at the...

Tabs win second

Oxford has finished runners up to Cambridge in The Guardian’s league table of UK Universities for the second year running. It scored 83.33 out...

Oxford to Oxford in an Oxford

A couple have set out to travel from Oxford, England to Oxford New Zealand in a 1954 Morris Oxford. They expect their mammoth journey...

Tolkien’s House for Sale

No. 20 Northmoor Road, the Oxford house in which J.R.R. Tolkein lived for seventeen years and wrote The Hobbit, is up for sale. It...

Boat race inspires Chelsea garden

An exhibition at this year’s Chelsea flower show has been created to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the Oxford and Cambridge boat race. ...

Motion in the Ocean

St John’s JCR has decided to buy an island. The “Motion in the Ocean” was passed on Sunday in an attempt to alleviate the...

Queen’s sized Bedrooms

Members of Queen’s College JCR have accused their President of using a provision which ensures tall people do not get attic rooms to fix...

PM Oxford Loner

India’s new Oxford-educated Prime Minister was a “loner” with little charisma, according to his former doctoral supervisor. Manmohan Singh studied economics at Nuffield...

Bus disaster kills boy

An eleven-year-old girl saw her thirteen-year-old brother killed on Monday, when their school bus collided with a tractor. Tomas Ryan-Vig from Bicester, ten miles...

RON Labours to Win

RON has reared his ugly head once again in Oxford JCR elections. Last week, the ubiquitous but eternally silent candidate stormed to victory in...

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