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Student loan reforms promised following opposition from MPs

Concerns have been voiced among MPs over the state of the student loans system following the announcement last year of increased tuition fees for English universities and a freeze...

Catherine Xu wins Oxford Union presidency for MT26

Catherine Xu running for the #TRUST slate has been elected Union President for Michaelmas...

Oxford Union town hall HT26: Meet the candidates

With polls open for the next set of Oxford Union elections on Friday, Cherwell spoke to candidates running to be President in Michaelmas 2026.

Corpus Christi College unveils its first female portrait

Corpus Christi College recently unveiled the first portrait of a woman to hang in...

Raw Tongan power carries the day

Oxford 14Tonga 34Oxford came off worse in a match of brutal intensity against the touring Tonga national side. Though they remained competitive throughout the...

Morrisette for glory

The CollectionAlanis MorissetteOut 14 November« « « « «Since the glory days of her hugely successful debut, Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette has been...

A constant delight

There are some subjects, writer John le Carré once said, “that can only be tackled in fiction”. It is curious, then, that Fernando Meirelles’...

Wenger’s dilemma

I knew being at Oxford was like living in a bubble when, in five weeks, the only live football match I’d seen was Balliol...

Performing in the shadows of Pyramids

On a July evening in Cairo, Hussein Omar and I walked into “The place” or “Makan” as it is known to Egyptians. Outside, through...

Wadham student injured in leap from College buildings

A male first year student from Wad­ham is being treated in hospital after falling from the roofof his College. Paramedics were called to Wadham...

Gallic farce amidst golf’s gender battle

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club’s decision to allow women to enter the Open Championship will provide the likes of Michelle Wie, teeing off...

Opera

Don GiovanniCarte Blanche Opera Co.25 - 29 OctoberJacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s CollegeIt is a sad fact that the general attitude towards...

Student stunt death avoidable

The death of an Oxford student flung tothe ground by a stunt catapult in 2002 could have been prevented if furthersafety tests had been...

Commercial success for chemists’ spin off

Acompany founded by Oxford University Chemists has doubled in value since lastyear and is now estimated to be worth £58 million.The company, VaSTox Plc,...

Foreign theatre

Masqueradedir Rrimas Tuminas25 - 29 OctoberThe Oxford PlayhouseMikhail Lermontov, the great Rrussian playwright, had a fatal penchant for duelling. Fuelled with vodka, the duels...

Congregation dons raise reform concerns

Controversial measures to reform the way the University is run were the subject of a heated discussion at a meet­ing of Congregation, the University’s...

How would you like to die?

Some go peacefully, some “rage against the dying of the light”, some do it themselves,some let nature take its course, for some it is...

The play’s the thing

This autumn the BBC is laying on a lavish feast. Aas Rradio 3 announces a four year project to dramatise seventeen of the bard’s...

Arms and my childhood

In 1992, a european country was destroyed while the rest of the world watched. Its nucleus,however, resisted, fought back and survived three years of...

Stage

Design for Living,dir Sarah Branthwaite,8 - 12 Nnovember,OFS: Noel Coward’s Design for Living caused a scandal at its 1932 premiere, with its candid view...

Longbridges reopens

The Longbridges boathouse, whichwas destroyed by fire after an attack claimed to be by the Aanimal Liberation Front, has re-opened. In July, theboathouse which...

Scouting for students

 was six months old when my father started working at St John’s. That was in 1946, and heworked here thirty odd years, into his...

Out-thought and out-fought

Oxford 20Les Blues, on Monday by following a great performance from last week with a disappointing effort this week. against Wasps, the Blues were...

Cowley Road double abduction leads to sexual assault

On Saturday, 29thOctober, two twenty year-old women got into a car with a man, were taken fromoutside Kebab Kid on Cowley Roadto a car...

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