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Plans for new Oxford graduate college approved

Oxford City Council has approved plans for a new postgraduate medical college in Headington. The plans also include a mental health hospital and a modern facility for brain sciences research, forming a new Warneford Park development centred on mental health and brain research. 

Union President-Elect found guilty of electoral fraud by Tribunal

Catherine Xu, the Oxford Union’s President-Elect for Michaelmas 2026, has been permanently barred from holding office at the Society after an Election Tribunal found that she orchestrated a scheme to impersonate legitimate voters at the Hilary Term 2026 election.

Honorary Degree recipients announced for 2026

The University of Oxford has announced its 2026 honorary degree recipients, with seven individuals to be conferred with degrees at the Encaenia ceremony on 24th June. 

Oxford research changes scientists’ understanding of the development of complex life

A collaborative study by researchers from the University of Oxford’s Museum of Natural History and Oxford’s Department of Earth Science, alongside experts from Yunnan University in China, has shown that complex animal life developed earlier than previously thought. 

Forget the aliens, watch the weather

Roland Emmerich, the director of The Day After Tomorrow, doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to making a political statement. The most iconic...

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter…and Spring

I usually have to steel myself for watching a Kim Ki-Duk film. Ki- Duk has made a name in Korea as an uncompromising director:...

A Beauty just Skin Deep

Avril Lavigne Under My Skin Out Now Avril Lavigne is a strikingly attractive woman. Her huge dark eyes, lank hair and ripped jeans make...

Live: PJ Harvey @ The Zodiac

Contrary to understandable but misguided popular belief, PJ Harvey does not belong in the waify indie chick-rocker department. Her second of two sold-out shows...

Ash: Meltdown

Nothing beats the good old days of 1977. How the 17-year-olds managed to come up with classic, catchy rock is anyone’s guess. Pity they...

Kings of Convenience: Riot on an Empty Street

They told us Quiet is the New Loud in 2001. Now, the Kings of Convenience are back with their Riot on an Empty Street....

Kaboom! Comic explosion hits Oxford

The Imps and the Revue are the two main branches of Oxford student comedy. The more famous Revue has existed for 50 years and...

David Levinson – Most of us are here against our will

Texas is the backdrop for this remarkable collection of short stories, which portray characters including drug addicts, out of work actors and a porn...

Helen Walsh – Brass

I was handed this book on the way to the gym. Wandering through sun-dappled cloisters, the sounds of birdsong and cricket practise enveloping me,...

Love Eight Relationship on Isis

Summer Eights 2004 After last year’s historic double headship, Pembroke College came down to earth with a bump or two during this year’s Summer...

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...

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