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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...
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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...
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Encaenia in photos: Oxford’s honorary degree award ceremony

The University of Oxford awarded eight honorary degrees at its annual Encaenia awards ceremony...
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Oxford admissions report reveals significant college and subject disparities

Oxford University has released its Annual Admissions Statistical Report, providing information about undergraduate applications,...
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Oxford’s image problem is the least of our admissions worries

As an applicant from an FE college to Oxford, I found some problems with James Lamming’s argument that many of the criticisms levelled at...

Respect, revenue and results: it’s time for a central OUSU venue

Ambition takes you places. Warwick University Students’ Union has two buildings which house seven bars, two clubs and a pub, a pizza outlet, a...

Stage Whispers: The Exec

The first time I played a careers “game” in year eleven, I got policeman. Last week the Careers Service asked whether I’d considered something...

Admissions: the final target

Targets are to Labour what alcohol and age are to the Lib Dems: a fatal weakness. From targets to cut NHS waiting times to...

The One That Got Away

By Sam PritchardThere is not enough new writing performed in Oxford. Mounting a production of a play written by a student is a demanding...

Universities are not here to fix the faults of schools

I’ve never been a fan of the word “admissions”. Entry to a fairground is an admission. The red-faced explanation you make to the A&E...

Living Together

By Elena LynchLiving Together is the story of what happens in the course of one weekend in the living room of the family home...

Editorial

If the elected leadership of the Oxford Union wish to invite a pair of controversial figures to argue with, then they are entirely within...

Small Change

 By Max Seddon Samuel Beckett’s influence on Peter Gill is obvious and acknowledged. Beckett as touchstone, in fact, for the drama sans drama is so...

Blues left short-changed by draw

Oxford 2 -2 Warwick MARTIN Keown is becoming more patient with age. The newly appointed Blues coach stood calmly on the touchline, despite witnessing a...

Why do we tickle?

Considered by some to be affectionate horseplay and by others a fairly sinister form of sexual harassment, tickling has long fascinated great thinkers as...

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

By Jeremy Cliffe Is there anything anyone doesn’t get off on, whether we admit it or not?” In this pithy question the protagonist of Edward...

Gaelic football Blues sail to victory against East Londoners

Oxford 4-9 (21)  -  University of East London 1-7 (10) A COMMANDING second half performance saw the Oxford Gaelic Football men walk away from their...

Rout sends Oxford up to cloud nine

Oxford 9 - 1 LeicesterAS THE dark clouds of October descended over Iffley Road, it seemed only the glaring pink jerseys of the two...

Amen, Greyfriars

Outraged students at Greyfriars have attacked the Hall authorities’ decision to permanently close without consulting any members of the student body.Greyfriars, one of the...

Blues leagues ahead of sorry Coventry

AFTER arriving ten minutes after the scheduled kick off time, Coventry must have hoped that it was time for their luck to change. Instead,...

Diary of a captain – Boxing

SOME flirt with the idea for a few sessions, maybe even a fortnight, but you can spot the reaction in people’s faces: this is...

Union snared in academics’ feud

A Union debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict almost collapsed on Tuesday after President Luke Tryl retracted an invitation to controversial writer Norman Finklestein, alleging...

Oxbridge Escorts

Varsity, Cambridge University’s student newspaper, started something big last week. It claims to have discovered students working as escorts, strippers and prostitutes to help...

JCRs call for no-platform referendum

JCR presidents are calling for a University-wide referendum on OUSU’s no-platform policy, claiming that “all members of OUSU should have a say in such...
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