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£8.4 million gift to establish new Oxford Professorship and Centre for Global Primary Care

An £8.4 million gift will enable Oxford University's Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences to expand its work in global primary care with a new centre and a...

‘My Oxford Year’ release date announced

Netflix has confirmed the release date for the project it filmed in Oxford last...

University of Oxford reveals UN Climate Summit programme

The University of Oxford and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for...

Former Hertford Principal urges action “to prevent genocide” in Gaza

Tom Fletcher, the former Principal of Hertford College, addressed the United Nations (UN) Security...

Catz underline promotion credentials with narrow win

BOTH Catz and Keble were relegated from last season’s premier division and each side was eager to demonstrate their wish to return to the...

Restaurant Review: Qumins

On first impressions, I could never have guessed what a disappointment Qumin’s would be. The waiters were friendly, the surroundings were modern yet cosy...

Just a Peep

By Phil Aherne Why do a different version of the show at the Burton-Taylor?Ben: It was mainly to give a better idea of what the...

Turkish leader declares war at Union

THE TURKISH Prime Minister told members of the Oxford Union on Monday night that he believed military action against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq...

Cherwell reviews the term’s play so far

WITH three weeks of term already behind us and sides beginning to settle after the influx of freshers, the league tables in college rugby...

Flip Side: Political Apathy

Jack Marley-Payne Promoting political apathy is likely to kick up a pretty impressive storm of indignation, so I better begin with a few concessions: politics...

Professor reopens immigration row

An Oxford Professor of demography announced this week that the UK’s total population is likely to spiral to over 75 million by 2050, threatening...

Rebuilding Mother Russia

It is a sweltering July day: the Russian weather, like the Russian soul, is a creature of passionate extremes. Natasha and I are sitting...

Isis haze for drug advocating MP

A CONTENDER for the Liberal Democrat leadership has claimed he “can’t remember” writing an article advocating the use of hard drugs which appeared under...

Big Brother: Stress in the Stacks

Back in those halcyon pre-Oxford days, the library was a place one might  quite easily walk past every day for twenty years and never...

Fresher photos vandalised

PEMBROKE JCR are hunting for a group of students who scrawled offensive messages on photos of freshers pinned up in the JCR. In an...

Week at the Union: Homosexual Parenting

This house believes that children need heterosexual parents: A packed and glorious debate.Though not one whose outcome was ever in question – as opener...

How to be a gap year bore

So you’re a year older than everyone else and twice as mature? That’s a good start to being a Gap Year Bore. Got a...

Facebook ban after nude Rad Cam forfeit

A MAGDALEN student was temporarily banned from Facebook after uploading a photo of a Brasenose fresher’s penis taken during a drinking game.The explicit photo...

The Simplicity of Chic

Here’s a random fact: 99% of women want a man in a plain white t-shirt or a plain black t-shirt, v-neck or round-neck, along...

State schools attack entrance tests

STATE school heads have warned that new Oxford entrance tests discriminate against their students.The Association of School and College Lecturers (ASCL) raised concerns that...

New College JCR forced to pay in paintballing fiasco

NEW COLLEGE JCR has been forced to pay for an intercollegiate paintballing trip after Magadalen’s Entz Committee failed to sell enough tickets to the...

Dons defend DNA pioneer in race row

Dons have rallied behind a Nobel laureate accused of racism after he told reporters that black people were of lower intelligence than white.James Watson,...

Trisha Donnelly at Modern Art Oxford

Katherine Eve sheds light on Donnelly's multimedia exhibitionDespite Donnelly’s strong reputation within the art community, she is little known in the public domain,...

Living out costs to rise after new Council plan

Oxford City Council has announced plans to extend licensing requirements for rented accommodation in the city, raising concerns that students will no longer be...

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