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Oxford students launch campaign group to support Iranian citizens

Students have formed a new group to protest the Iranian government's treatment of its citizens. In a statement, pre-released to Cherwell, Oxford Students Against...

The pressure of choosing your degree

"The future is always scary – I get stressed about what I am doing next week, never mind next year."

Hedgerows or hedge funds? Hitchens and Hannan at the Sheldonian

Hannan tempered Hitchens' despair with a call to hope. For him, Brexit really could represent a new dawn for Britain.

Ranking Oxford Clubs

"While all the clubs in Oxford struggle to compete with the rest of the country, we have what we have, and my relative ratings of each are below."

Too old?: Claims of age discrimination relaunched against University of Oxford

"The current campaign aims to get rid of the university’s ‘Employer Justified Retirement Age’ policy that states that all academic staff have to retire the September before their sixty-ninth birthday. "

Turtle Bay review – The Caribbean arrives in Oxford

"The remarkable thing about Turtle Bay is how it manages to cater to so many different customers and markets successfully."

Malala Yousafzai at the Oxford Union

MALALA – despite an impressive termcard, none of the Oxford Union’s speakers this Michaelmas are as well-known as her. Mononyms are for the super-famous,...

Is an essay crisis preventable?

Every evening at dinner many students stress over their uncompleted work. The term ‘essay crisis’ encapsulates the impending doom of an essay that is...

From Christian Cole to Andi Marsh to Deborah Ogunnoiki

"I am a Black, state-school-educated woman, and that is why Christian Cole is such an important part of Black British History in Oxford."

Engineering department chaos: students miss graduation, offers, amid marking debacle

Chaos has erupted among the fourth-year Engineering cohort as a number of candidates were marked incorrectly for their papers – or seemingly not marked...

Everything I know about (uni) love

During summer vacation, as part of my mission to read as little of my reading list as possible, I picked up Dolly Alderton’s first...

One of the flock

Time passes differently here in Oxford. It is something that I am not sure I will ever get my head around. As I rushed...

Alpaca-lypse: Oxford’s favourite animal hates human touch

If you search “Do alpacas like to be petted?” on Google, you will find a near consensus among alpaca farmers that alpacas in fact do not like to be petted or hugged, especially by strangers.

Being Scottish at Oxford

When I was seventeen, I moved over three hundred miles from Edinburgh to Oxford. I expected there to be more Scottish students. I pottered...

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