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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."

OUBC attacked by Spanish gang

Two Oxford University Boat Club oarsmen were left wounded in a Seville hospital on Sunday 18 September after a group of the rowers were...

St Hilda’s invests in online poker company

The debate into Socially Responsible Investments of individual colleges continues as it has been revealed that St Hilda’s college held 24,796 shares in online...

Tributes for student who died saving friend

St. Peter’s College has been left “shocked and saddened” by the death of a popular and talented student during the vacation.Jonny Fraser, 21 from...

Archbishop of Canterbury’s spin doctor to be employed by University from October

Oxford University has appointed a new Director of Communications and Public Affairs, Jeremy Harris. Harris, who will start his new job in late October,...

Library expansion proposals compromised by flood concerns

Plans have been unveiled by Oxford University for a £100 million scheme to create a library system for the 21st century.The plans include major...

Big Screen

Serenitydir Joss Whedonout 7 OctoberIt depends on whom you ask: Serenity is either the highly-anticipated result of an unprecedented fan-led revolution, or the doomed...

Dark Blues rule the court

Oxford 12.5Cambridge 8.5The Oxford Men’s Blues Tennis Team finished off a successful year in style as they won a closely fought Varsity Match on...

Balliol retain college league title

Balliol (98-0) beat Pembroke (97 all out) by 10 wicketsBalliol regained their league title with a humiliating 10-wicket defeat of Pembroke, the newly crowned...

Blues have difficult start on South Africa tour

Oxford’s rugby Blues had a tough start to their season with a tour to South Africa. Coming away with a win and two losses,...

Oxford rowers strike gold at World Championships in Japan

Oxford’s oarsmen completed one of their most successful season ever with three gold medals at World Championships in Gifu, Japan. Great Britain’s Andy Hodge...

Tory party has salvation in sight

If you are taking even a cursory interest in British politics over the next few weeks, there are a few phrases which you should...

RadCam rumours denied

Rumours regarding the future of the Radcliffe Camera have recently been circulated in the national press.There were suggestions that the Lower Reading Room could...

Fools, squires, and bagmen

Miranda Kaufmann discovers that there is more to Morris Dancing in Oxford than just old bearded gentlemen with bells onInstantly recognisable by their white...

UEFA fails to deal with thugs

Tuesday 5 April 2005. A special moment in the history of European football as Liverpool fans atone for the horrors of the past with...

NUS anti-Semitism condemned by JSoc

The Presidents of the Oxford University Jewish Society have condemned the National Union of Students (NUS) for its “failure to confront anti-Semitism”.The Annual NUS...

Health

Bipolar disorderMANIC DEPRESSION, or bipolar disorder, is essentially a brain disfunction causing unusual shifts in a person’s mood and energy. These shifts are manifested...

‘Even though we train so much’

Binyamin Even talks to OUBC President Robin Bourne-Taylor in about life as a Blues rower in Oxford Robin Bourne-Taylor represents you. As President of...

Accident halts High Street

On Monday afternoon a 22-year old woman was involved in an accident with a Stagecoach bus on High Street, bringing the City Centre to...

Eat

Ben Coffer gorges on piesTHE BE-MULLETED eighties pop duo Tears For Fears were wrong about so much, yet in one respect they were right...

The sensitive iconographer

Fifty years after Satyajit Ray’s monumental debut ‘Pather Panchali’ stunned critics and enthralled audiences at home and abroad, Somak Ghoshal examines the legacy of...

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