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Students frustrated over filming at Brasenose College during exam season

Students at Brasenose College expressed their frustration last week after scenes for a forthcoming sequel to My Fault: London were shot on the College’s grounds. At the time of...

Hertford College faces student criticism for limiting display of Pride flag

Hertford College is facing backlash from students following a request that the Middle Common...

Encaenia in photos: Oxford’s honorary degree award ceremony

The University of Oxford awarded eight honorary degrees at its annual Encaenia awards ceremony...

Oxford admissions report reveals significant college and subject disparities

Oxford University has released its Annual Admissions Statistical Report, providing information about undergraduate applications,...

Magdalen topples Merton in latest Norrington table

Magdalen leads latest Norrington Table, while Merton, historically the most successful college, plummets 13 places

Tolkien fans gather for the 38th Oxonmoot festival

Festival celebrates Tolkien's works on the Hobbit’s 75th anniversary and Bilbo Baggins's birthday

College accommodation issues cause problems across Oxford

Unfinished and overdue building works have prevented students from moving into college rooms allocated to them last year, with some forced to commute more than 30 minutes to their colleges.

St Aldate’s Tavern to reopen

A city centre pub is to reopen after refurbishment

Residents renew objections to Port Meadow Development

Although no objections were received during the planning permission stage, residents are now protesting about the planned building of student flats on Port Meadow

PPE finalists create revision musical

Three PPE third years are writing 'John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice: The Musical!'

Cory Bernardi withdraws from Oxford talk

Australian politician pulls out of speaking at Oxford University summit after making comments on same sex marriage

Mark Thompson takes up professorship at Oxford

Mark Thompson, the former director general of the BBC, is to be Humanitas Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford this term.

Jamal’s restaurant closes down

New Indian restaurant Arzoo opens in Jericho on the same site as venue Jamal’s, which closed earlier this summer

OUP hit out at photocopiers

Oxford University Press joins lawsuit against Delhi University’s photocopying service

St Catz porter’s inquest reaches verdict

The inquest into the death of David Lord, a night porter at St Catherine's College, has concluded that it was suicide

OUSU voted least popular student union in the UK

Oxford University and Oxford Brookes Student Unions rated worst in the country for 'student satisfaction'

Oxford alumna creates porn website

Cindy Gallop, a Somerville graduate, has created a new website which is attempting to change accepted standards of pornography by only using user-submitted videos

Fallen Oxford graduate repatriated

A University College graduate has been repatriated to Oxford after being killed while serving in Afghanistan

New app makes Oxford landmarks disappear

Tourists are left baffled after colleges switch location and the train station vanishes on the iPhone's latest navigation program

Boat Race protester found guilty

Trenton Oldfield, the man who disrupted this year's Boat Race, has been found guilty of causing a public nuisance

Director of Modern Art Oxford passes away

Turner Prize judge Michael Stanley is found dead in a garden, aged 37

Boat Race swimmer in court

Trenton Oldfield, who caused the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race to be suspended in April, faces the charge of causing a public nuisance

Iain Banks to attend Charity Literary Festival at LMH

Five writers will take part in the '5 x 15' festival at Lady Margaret Hall

Medical science facilities to be extended

Oxford University will purchase the site of Headington Park Hospital and use it to expand its medical science facilities on the Old Road campus

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