Monday, May 12, 2025

News

Construction set to commence for new £190m science park

Construction firm Bowmer + Kirkland secured the contract last week to build Fabrica, Oxford’s largest commercial science park to date, with construction beginning at the end of May. The...

India Society cancels cricket match with Pakistan Society

Oxford India Society have cancelled a scheduled cricket match with Oxford Pakistan Society, citing...

Christ Church proposes construction of new graduate centre

Christ Church has proposed the refurbishment and extension of the Faculty of Music building...

Oxford’s DPIR issues guidance on US travel for students

Guidance on travel to the US has been shared with all postgraduate students in...

Professor latest implicated in Cambridge Analytica scandal

Raymond Duch, Fellow of Nuffield College and Director of the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, is the latest academic to be implicated in the...

Layla Moran voted down in fight to protect Erasmus Programme

Oxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran pushed two amendments to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to keep UK in Erasmus+ programme and to protect...

Union announces Hilary term card

Conan O’Brien, Governor Tom Wolfe, Tarana Burke and Paul Krugman are among names released on the Union’s Hilary term card.  Television host and comedian Conan...

BREAKING: Oxford announces record state school offers

Oxford University has announced that more than 69% of undergraduate offers have been made to students attending state schools. The increase of 4.6% is...

Petition launched to protect UK’s role in Erasmus

A petition to put pressure on the government to protect the UK’s role in the EU’s Erasmus scheme has received over 26,000 signatures.  MPs voted...

Moran calls for City Council to “step up”

Layla Moran has called for Oxford City Council to "step up" after an investigation revealed that almost 47,000 homes have been left vacant nationwide,...

1000s attended ‘Uncomfortable Oxford’ history events in 2019

‘Uncomfortable Oxford’, a project encouraging awareness of Oxford’s ‘legacies of inequality and imperialism’, has experienced rapid growth since its creation in 2018. Almost 3000...

Oxford’s Layla Moran becomes first publicly pansexual MP

Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon, has revealed she identifies as pansexual, announcing she is in a “really committed, loving,...

Oxford divided over trans rights, data suggests

Newly published polling data has indicated that Oxford citizens are divided over issues surrounding trans rights. The data, published by the news website UnHerd...

Oxford Retirement Policy Ruled Discriminatory by Tribunal

An Oxford University don has this week won a claim brought against the University after he was forced to retire aged 68. The controversial policy...

UCU Reopens Pensions Negotiations

A failure to make progress on pay and pensions disputes could result in further strikes in 2020. The University and College Union (UCU) has announced...

Oxford University receives €56 million grant

Oxford University has been awarded a grant of €56 million by the European Research Council (ERC).  The winners of the ERC’s latest Consolidator Grants Competition...

UN climate talks fail to tackle crisis

Emily Passmore This year’s round of UN climate talks has once again ended in disappointment, with UN member states merely acknowledging that current plans for cutting emissions...

Stubbly Saints: Hilda’s raises over £8000 for Movember

Moustaches made a moneymaking come-back for charity last month. St. Hilda’s College, taking part in Movember for the first time, has reportedly raised more...

Stubbly saints: St Hilda’s raises over £8000 for Movember

Moustaches made a moneymaking come-back for charity last month. St. Hilda’s College, taking part in Movember for the first time, has reportedly raised more...

Council makes £19 Million Climate Commitment

Oxford City Council has pledged £19 Million for a Climate Emergency Budget in response to the Assembly on Climate Change. They are working on a number of different initiatives, such as a network of charging ports for electric vehicles in the city and introducing electric busses.

Oxford Students Protest India’s Citizenship Amendment Act

Yesterday students gathered outside the Radcliffe Camera to protest the Citizenship Amendment Act, a bill passed in India’s Parliament which has been widely criticised...

St Anne’s attempts ethical investment, joining Responsible Investment Network

St Anne’s College has joined the Responsible Investment Network (Universities), alongside the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. The purpose of the Network is to assist educational...

Layla Moran amongst favourites to lead Lib Dems

Layla Moran, newly re-elected MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, is one of the most likely candidates to replace Jo Swinson as leader of...

Onyx Magazine launch celebrates Black voices

Onyx Magazine, which highlights the voices of Black creatives, with a particular emphasis on British Black students, held the launch of its second edition,...

Follow us