Saturday 21st March 2026

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‘Emergency Brake’ on student visas leaves Oxford students facing uncertainty

Students at the University of Oxford are facing uncertainty after the UK government imposed an “emergency brake” on new study visas for nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan.

Significant Arabic manuscript collection donated to St John’s College Library

St John’s College Library has received a significant donation of Arabic-script manuscripts.

Reported sexual misconduct at Oxford University Hospitals lead to six dismissals

CW: Sexual harassment New data reveals that six staff members at Oxford University Hospitals NHS...

Oxford and Liverpool universities join forces in landmark partnership

The University of Oxford has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Liverpool, Oxfordshire County Council, and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.

Ash Live at Oxford Brookes

Ash are back, and they arrived in style. Tim Wheeler appeared on stage brandishing his flaming ‘flying V’ in front of a sold-out Oxford...

PJ Harvey: Uh Huh Her

The seventh long player from P J Harvey is a return to form. The follow up to Stories from the City, Stories from the...

Chikinki – Lick Your Ticket

The pumping beats and synthetic effects of the first track on Chikinki’s latest album signal what has been heralded as an ‘electronic dawn,’ with...

Oxford’s own… Charlie Mauleverer

For those seeking relaxing classical music outside the wearisome confines of Classic FM, solace comes in the form of Vista Musicale. Their album, From...

The Cosmos: A Curious Book of Dreams

The acknowledgment of Islamic culture’s contribution to Western civilisation remains, for the most part, restricted to the margins of public knowledge in the West....

Cold Comfort Farm

The world of literature boasts a vast and varied landscape. The compulsive reader may wander through dense forests of almost impenetrable prose translated from...

Midnight Cab

On the evidence of Midnight Cab, James Nichol, established as one of Canada’s prominent playwrights, has made a perfectly seamless transition from acts to...

Students fail to score enough

20/20 Cricket Oxford UCCE 137-8 Oxfordshire 138-5 Thirteen runs in the last over of this TwentyTwenty encounter saw Oxfordshire home after two and...

RBT: From Christ Church to Athens

Mention the letters RBT to anyone involved in Oxford rowing and they’ll know who you are talking about: Robin Bourne-Taylor, of Christ Church, and...

Ultimate Queens

Queen’s followed their victory in the Ultimate Frisbee League by winning cuppers, beating Pembroke/Jesus 5- 2 in the final. Their run of competitive victories...

Keble PemBroken

Before the Blues game against Oxfordshire on Friday evening, it was the turn of the colleges to try 20/20 cricket as last year’s cuppers...

Hugh’s granted final berth

What could have more drama, more nail-biting sleepless-night inducing tension than the Semi-Finals of the 5-a-side Football Cuppers? Exams, perhaps. If the matches at...

Second ‘cry for help’

A man had to be talked down from St Michael’s Tower on Cornmarket Street on Monday afternoon, after threatening to commit suicide for the...

Hoorah a d hyperboled at the Oxford Union

The recent speculation and hyperbole surrounding the vulnerability of British democracy following the ever-so dangerous attack of a flour-filled condom found its parallel when...

Squaddies smash up student

Two on-leave soldiers from Northern Ireland have been arrested following an assault on three students. The Jesus College students and their friend from...

Students are incompatible with OUSU

OUSU was in confusion this week as it attempted to implement the result of last term’s referendum on the future of higher education funding....

AIDS orphans’ blood stolen

An Oxford researcher has been accused of unlawfully bringing the blood of HIV infected African orphans back to Britain and plagiarising another scientist’s work....

Cycle safety for Cowley Road

Mourning for the death of St Catherine’s student Emilie Harris continued this week as the Council approved a multi-million pound road safety project for...

Journalists investigated

The two student journalists who exposed insecurities in the University computer network are facing a police investigation into their activities in obtaining the story....

Shoplift Syringe Scare

Security staff at Debenhams on George Street were threatened with a syringe after confronting an alleged shoplifter last Tuesday afternoon. The man threatened to...

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