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Oxford falls to lowest ever spot in The Times UK University Guide 2027

The University of Oxford has placed fifth in The Times’s 2027 UK university rankings, falling from joint fourth with the University of Cambridge last year. This marks Oxford’s lowest ranking in the guide’s 33 year history and only the second time the University has not been in the top three.

Protest held outside Town Hall over sale of Council-owned building to St Peter’s

A protest took place today outside Oxford Town Hall against Oxford City Council’s plan to sell 11 New Road to St Peter’s College, which would convert most of the building into student housing.

Oxford Reform Society registers for Michaelmas

The University of Oxford has a Reform UK society for the first time, after...

Finance workers strike at Oxford University Press

Finance workers are on strike at Oxford University Press (OUP) over plans to offshore jobs to India, with trade union officials warning that “before long this great British institution will exist in the UK in name only."

Students assaulted in brutal beatings

Hertford student left with severe head injuries after attack on Parks Road

£35m quad for St John’s

Kendrew Quadrangle took ten years to build

Pounding the hacks: £5 charge

President's Drinks set to reduce 'hack patronage', members say measures do not go far enough

University alarm at spending cuts

Comprehensive Spending Review slashes £3 billion from university budgets

Chemistry staff get iPads

Department splashes out on new gadgets whilst fourth years told there is no funding for their projects

Dancing on lies

Blues awards downgraded as punishment for white ribbon protest, while unaffiliated Featherwaits dancers gain half-blues

Banks ignore student rules

Cherwell investigation reveals possibility of multiple overdrafts

Browne Review: Wadh-is to be done?

Over two hundred meet to discuss action against Browne's reccomendations

Jesus, it’s so boring round here

Students wear black armbands in protest at increased academic pressure

Full-frontal fright for freshers

Students strip off to disrupt fresher photograph

Browne review released

Review recommends uncapped tuition fees meaning the cost of a degree could rise to £50,000

Varsity sell out

Varsity tickets sell out in record-breaking time

OUSU protest against A* grade

OUSU Council has passed a motion to mandate its officers to lobby the University against the introduction of the A* grade at A Level....

Cowley stabbing in early hours

An Oxford Brookes was stabbed in the early hours of yesterday morning outside the O2 Academy on Cowley Road. The incident took place...

Thatcher snatcher

OUCA concerned about ''sick socialist'' actions

Fined: University gives student a megabyte

Student fined by St Hugh's for watching Iron Man II in the comfort of his own home

Can we grow our own? Yes ve-gan!

Backlash against Meat Free Mondays is replaced with new "green-keen" allotment trend

Even more cash for Cashmore

Brasenose Principal will be paid £1250 per day for a post advertised just two days after expenses scandal

Tragic death of German tutor at St John’s College

German Tutor found at the bottom of a spiral staircase, in "unexplained" circumstances

Raunchy ‘Milton’ poem discovered

Sexual verse could have been written to smear the poet

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