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Mansfield College unveils plans for major redevelopment

Mansfield College has submitted plans for an extensive redevelopment of the College that would create 174 additional student bedrooms, as well as new teaching facilities. Mansfield described its estate...

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Hague to confer nine honorary degrees to celebrate first year in office

Lord William Hague has announced the conferral of nine honorary degrees to mark his...

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‘Rage bait’ named Oxford Word of the Year

Oxford University Press (OUP) has revealed that “rage bait” is their official Word of...

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International student fees increased by 37% since 2022

Overseas student fees have increased more than 37% over the last three years, a...

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OUSU marked with initiative failure

The University has advised students not to waste their money on an Oxford University Student Union (OUSU) initiative encouraging students to apply to see...

RC church to be dominated by gays

Priestly celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church has broken down and may have to be abandoned, an Oxford monk, and former Master General of...

Tabs better Oxford

Universities in the UK are set to be left out of the running when it comes to recruiting overseas students, a study by the...

Incensed? Uni buys Â£1million perfume burner

The Ashmolean Museum has saved a valuable Renaissance perfume burner from the clutches of the Getty Museum.The Oxford establishment has had its eye on...

Number of offers to state school students falls

The number of state school pupils who received an offer from Oxford University fell this year despite an increase in the number of applications....

University refutes racism accusations

Government minister, David Lammy has accused Oxford of prejudice against black applicants, a claim rejected by the University. In The Guardian newspaper, Lammy accused...

Dubious Oxford entry

Oxford may be obliged to earmark ‘wild-card’ places for state school pupils who gain unexpectedly high grades at A-level. The proposal aims to help...

Howard’s radical son takes orders

The son of Conservative Party leader Michael Howard is training to become an Anglican priest, six years after he was accused of “spiritual nazism” in Cherwell.Howard,...

No traffic charge

The Oxford City Council has ruled out a London-style congestion charge to ease the city’s grid-locked streets. Despite initially considering the scheme following the...

Worst shopping

Oxford is one of the worst places to shop in the UK, a new survey says, and is unlikely to improve. The survey of...

City Bursars

Amidst growing speculation over the financial future of British Universities, Oxbridge college bursars have increasingly been looking to the City to consider their investment...

OUP is top

Oxford University Press (OUP) is Britain’s top publisher according to an annual league published in the trade magazine ‘The Bookseller.’ A spokesperson from the...

Tasty – Kelis

Kelis has always been a lucky girl. Coming from a middleclass Harlem family, she learnt violin, piano and saxophone at private school, and ended...

The Diary of Alicia Keys

Being compared to Aretha Franklin, winning an unprecedented five Grammys, and selling ten million copies of her first album world-wide – all at the...

Squarking with Delight

It’s probably a safe bet that most British readers won’t have encountered contemporary Native Americans in their leisure literature. With the recent publication of...

Chatting up…Nigella Lawson

What books are currently on your bedside table?The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon; Just Like Mother Used to...

Playboy

“Hefner never believed Playboy was an art magazine”. As surprising revelations go, this is more 32AA than 36DD. Yet this is the introductory eyeopener...

Little Black Book of Stories

Short stories are funny things. I had never read any Byatt before and was, I confess, dubious about reviewing her new collection for the...

Tune ON, Tune IN

Out with the old and in with the new for this year’s TV - or rather, old formats dressed up as new ones. Among...

Varsity future in safe hands

Blues Rugby captain John Allen surveyed the past term and declared “This was the year to become more expansive”. The MMC Trophy may have...

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Mansfield College unveils plans for major redevelopment

Hague to confer nine honorary degrees to celebrate first year in office

‘Rage bait’ named Oxford Word of the Year

International student fees increased by 37% since 2022

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