Tuesday 16th June 2026

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Twelve Oxford Scientists receive prestigious Royal Society Fellowship

Twelve University of Oxford researchers have been elected as fellows to the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences. They join a cohort of 90 scientific researchers elected this year from around the world who specialise in fields ranging from “astronomy and cancer research to mathematics and biotechnology”.

Oxford summer schools ranked among the fastest-growing companies in Europe

Oxford Royale Academy and Oxford Summer Courses have been ranked among Europe’s fastest-growing companies, according to the 2026 Financial Times’ FT Top 1000: Europe’s Fastest-Growing Companies.

University Council candidates warn of financial pressures, bureaucracy, and AI disruption at Oxford

Candidates standing in next week’s University of Oxford Council elections have warned of growing financial pressures, rising workloads, governance challenges, and the impact of AI on admissions and assessment.

Nine colleges indirectly invest in local Campsfield immigration centre

At least nine Oxford colleges invest indirectly in Mitie Group Plc, an outsourcing company...

243 years until our next black dot

Oxford witnessed an astronomical spectacle not seen in living memory when Venus crossed the face of Sun last Tuesday. Earth’s closest planetary neighbour...

Charity runners and riders

Three thousand women from Oxford took part in a charity race to aid the struggle against cancer last Sunday. The organisers hope that £180,000...

University of Life

A new book claims that life expectancy is linked to education: the longer you spend learning, the longer life you will have. Sir...

Live ChCh Cartridges

34 live shotgun cartridges were found abandoned in a green Nike bag in Christ Church Meadows last Friday. The cartridges were found by...

Mansfield Smokes On

Members of Mansfield College JCR have voted to continue to allow students to smoke in the college bar. Passions were raised amid divided...

DRINK: Hollywood Cocktails

Hollywood Cocktails 124 Walton St (01865) 511 668 As you come to the end of the Jericho “bar crawl” from the north of...

EAT: The White Hart

The White Hart Wytham (01865) 244372 The White Hart is set in Wytham, (a treesy hamlet just past Godstow), and has recently been...

Kepp Cool, Look Hot

Whatever you’re doing this summer, whether it’s strolling down the Champs Elysées, hitching a lift in the back of a chicken truck through Jordan,...

Sinners, repent!

The piazza was crawling with women. I would have felt like a kid in a candy store, had they not all been wearing habits....

Bored this summer? Try… Pimms and Punting

Everyone talks about how wonderful Pimm’s and punting are – you practically hear nothing else during Michaelmas and Hilary, and when Trinity comes round,...

Paul’s World

As Britain’s greatest fashion export, Paul Smith is remarkably modest. “Frankly,” he says, “I’m not exceptional at design. I’m medium.” This comes from the...

Paintbrushes and Pineapples

In the summer of 2003, a group of five first-year students from Somerville travelled to Ghana in West Africa. They had planned to meet...

Heading back Home

"So, do you have any exams?”Almost every day for the past few weeks I have been confronted with this question, and the response is...

Chatting Up… The Delays

What image are you trying to put across and how would you describe yourselves? Whilst we say that we have an “uncool” style, the...

The Gospel according to Berkoff

Stephen Berkoff’s Messiah: Scenes from a Crucifixion claims to be outré, obscene and blasphemous, which at times it certainly is. Lines like Jesus’s “Whatever...

Amy’s View – BT

There is no beginning, no end. As the audience enter, the actors are already on stage and it’s up to us to work out...

Much Ado Abouot Nothing

Continuing the theatrical trend for all things al fresco this term, Creation Theatre Company have returned to Headington Hill Park with the chaotic comedy...

Something adolescent this way comes

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Ozone and Odeon Wands out! Harry is back, older, angrier and with better special effects...

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

Like Mike Hodges’ best-known film, the 1971 thriller Get Carter, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead’s central premise sees a man out to avenge his...

Bon Voyage

The charm of Jean-Paul Rappeneau’s Bon Voyageis that it doesn’t take itself too seriously. For many years now, French filmmakers have been drawn to...

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