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University of Oxford reveals UN Climate Summit programme

The University of Oxford and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have announced the official programme and list of participating institutions for the...
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Former Hertford Principal urges action “to prevent genocide” in Gaza

Tom Fletcher, the former Principal of Hertford College, addressed the United Nations (UN) Security...
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Oxford study to examine brain injuries in young athletes

Oxford University’s Biomedical Engineering department is recruiting volunteers to participate in a two-year study...
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Town and Gown charity races set to raise £300k

The Bidwells Oxford 10k charity race is set to raise £300,000 for Muscular Dystrophy...
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Hood’s police “altercation” denied by Uni

THE UNIVERSITY has denied allegations published in a national newspaper on Sunday that Vice-Chancellor John Hood was engaged in a fight with police last...

Oxbridge airship link proposed

PLANS to establish a Varsity airship have been announced by a new company.Using the ‘SkyCat Hybrid Air Vehicle’, World SkyCat Ltd will directly link...

OxTales – Jonquil

By Sebastian Atay  8pm outside the Purple Turtle. It is cold, grey and distinctly sleazy. All in all, the exact opposite of the sunny,...

Thieves hit Cowley students twice in a week

THIEVES made off with thousands of pounds in electronic equipment after breaking into two student houses in the Cowley Road area last week.Police have...

Why is the rainbow flag a gay pride symbol?

It’s perhaps understandable that there are a lot of symbols that are used to indicate gay pride. The whole concept of being closeted seems...

Jeremy Cliffe explores gentility and feminism in Cheltenham

 The word ‘genteel’ seems appropriate to the point of cliché when talking about Cheltenham. A town of Regency terraces and horse racing, antique shops...

Books in 50 Words: Homer Iliad

Homer’s Iliad remains an excellent introductionto poetry for the under-fives; itslanguage proves accessible, and the availableGreek translations help you encouragechildren to foreign languages at...

Flip Side: Cheap Flighte

Elenor Matthews defends the rights of those who want to travel for less If Ryanair was a night-club it would almost certainly be Filth: only...

Jason Donovon

Guy Pewsey talks Neighbours, drugs and kilowatt smiles with Jason Donovan When we sit on our sofas and watch television, it’s often clear that the...

Union row splits University

OUSU COUNCIL passed an emergency motion condemning the Oxford Union last Friday after its decision to invite Nick Griffin and David Irving to address...

Happy People?

Heid Jerstad visits the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan in search of temples, politics and the truth behind Gross National Happiness Young people these days are...

Review: ‘Delete this at your peril’ by Bob Servant

This is a book that needed to be written. It is a declaration of defiance and warfare against one of the most dangerous threats...

Big Brother: Matriculation Madness

Michaelmas…sub-fusc…matriculation…on top of my modern languages degree, this time last year I had to learn the oxford lingo and prepare myself for one of...

The Devil reads Vogue

Deputy Fashion editor of The Guardian (and former editor of Cherwell) Hadley Freeman warns Daniel Rolle that fashion journalism isn’t all about doing lunch,...

Violence mars Wadham house parties

POLICE officers arrested a drunken man who violently attacked students at a Wadham house party on Iffley Road last Saturday night.The man, who witnesses...

Bishops to inspect Wycliffe

TROUBLED PPH Wycliffe Hall has come under further pressure after the Church of England announced this week that it had brought forward a scheduled...

High Table

 Millie Maler, DPhil Candidate, AstrophysicsA third year graduate student at Christ Church reading for a DPhil in Astrophysics, last year Millie took astrophysics tutorials...

How to be Queen of the Bop

Known for cringeworthy music, precarious outfits and floors sticky with the spilled vodka-cokes and lager of over-excited or over-drunk students, the bop is as...

Look Mum, I’ve downloaded a first class degree!

Let’s flashback a few years. Remember waiting anxiously for those A-level results to see if you’d ever get to punt on the Isis and...

German humour, part 2

A bit better this. The originally-named satirical blog Satire Blog thinks the top dogs should rename Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport "Willy Brandt Airport", "Helmut Kohl...
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