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Local election manifestos published as student candidates contest key wards

The Labour Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats have released their manifestos ahead of the upcoming Oxford City Council elections, as a number of current and recent University of Oxford students contest seats across the city.

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Carl Benjamin disinvited from Oxford Union amid backlash from FemSoc and IHH

On Thursday, the Oxford Union held a debate on the motion ‘This House Believes That Being British is a ‘Birthright’, Not a Choice’. Carl Benjamin, who had been scheduled to speak, was disinvited from the event shortly before it took place.

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Second Oxfordshire Patriots protest this term met with counterprotesters

The Oxfordshire Patriots held a demonstration last Saturday in the city centre outside the Oxfordshire County Council offices. They were met by counter-protestors from Oxford Stand Up To Racism (OSUTR).

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University of Oxford paid private firm for ‘intelligence’ on student protest

The University of Oxford has been named as one of twelve UK universities that paid a private intelligence consultancy run by former military intelligence officials to monitor student activism.

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VC embraces Chinese uni

Oxford to increase academic cooperation and exchanges with China according to announcement by Professor Andrew Hamilton. Oxford and Tsinghua will begin an increased program of co-operation over the next 5 years.

Students caught in Syrian unrest

The University of Oxford advises students still in Syria to leave following a shooting close to where a student was staying

IDB scholarships launched

Oxford University and the Islamic Development Bank announce joint science and technology PHD scholarships

Cambridge overtake Oxford

The 'other place' overtakes Oxford in The Complete University Guide

Mast we deface the High Street?

Planned mobile mast on the High Street meets opposition from nearby colleges

Bod showcases Bible

Bodelian exhibits King James Bible to commemorate the book's 400th anniversary

Oxford’s right royal parties

Tortoise weddings, royalist bops and an anti-royal street party: Oxford celebrates the royal marriage in style

Clegg under fire over unpaid internships

Clegg promises to end informal internships in Whitehall, while the University speaks out against the 'exploitation' of students in unpaid internships.

University fee rises reviewed by UK government

The government begins assessing tuition fee rises, as three-quarters of universities opt to charge the maximimum fees of Â£9000 per year

Oxford stands proud

Oxford gears up for LGBTQ Pride Festival which will take place throughout Trinity term. Students and academics in Oxford have been expressing their support for this increasingly popular celebration of diversity

Former Oxford student dies in Libya

LMH alumnus and photo-journalist Tim Hetherington dies while covering Libya conflict for Vanity Fair magazine

Cameron standoff over branding Oxford as disgraceful

Downing Street continue to defend Cameron's comments based on 'one black student' statistic, despite University's claim that this is incorrect

Oxford supports alumni career changes

OUCS host a variety of initiatives to support alumni who have had a change of heart

The university’s Â£11.5m health care plans under fire

Criticism from both town and gown over plans to build a new healthcare centre complex in Walton Street

Privacy concerns over new student database

Oxford students given until 4th May to opt out of database

Aloha Lola Lo!

After the closure of Po Na Na last August, Oxford's students, residents and cheese-loving-clubbers alike will be thrilled to hear that the club is re-opening this week