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New scholarship created for Afghan women at Oxford

One scholarship will be awarded to a woman of Afghan descent to study at the University of Oxford each year in a new endowment from the Weidenfeld-Hoffman Trust.
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Former L’Oreal CEO donates £30m for new Worcester College library

Worcester College has submitted a  planning application for a new £30 million library, funded entirely by a donation from alumnus and former CEO of L’Oréal Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones.
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University style guide criticised by international students 

A style guide issued by the University of Oxford advises staff to use “plain English” to avoid confusing international students.
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St Anne’s to close nursery called a ‘lifeline’ for women at Oxford

St Anne’s College will close its day nursery, ending an institution that was pivotal in supporting women students and academics at the University of Oxford.
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OUSU to review Target Schools

Discussions will take place atOUSU council this Friday to review the number of schools invited to Open Days and Regional Events through the Target...

Perfection in a cup

The best thing about the Café Metropole is the chairs. They are wicker, made out of real straw and have armrests which slope into...

Ethical investment protests continue

OUSU Social Justice Committeeorganised a walk around Oxfordon Wednesday afternoon to raise awareness about investment issues. Organisersestimated that between 50 and 100 people joined...

Are you getting enough

Professor Jim Horne of Loughborough University recently addressed the Oxford University Scientific Society with the question: "Why Sleep?" A room full of bright, talented...

St Anne’s bans football socials

St Anne’s football teamhas been banned from holding any team socials after an incident involving twomem­bers of the team and the College’s deputy dean. On...

The lot of the linguist

For many, Michaelmas term signals a return to a lifestyle we know so well that to describe it again would see innumerable clichés rehashed...

Ugly rumours of Blair Rockumentary

Channel 4 has revealed details of a documentary that will chronicle Tony Blair’s time as the singer in a student band he fronted while...

The other Oxford

I work at St Hilda’s College library and a lot of what I do involves making sure that the library runs efficiently. That’s not...

Trio guilty of ‘honour killing’

Three Oxford residents have been found guilty ofstabbing to death Brookes student Arash Ghorani-Zarin. ChomirAli, a Bangladeshi waiter, and his two sons Mujibar Rahman...

Obituary: the celebrity wedding

IT IS with an impeccable single tear that we announce the untimely death of the Celebrity Wedding, though it far outlived the marriages of...

Eminent Corpus classicist and ex-Vice President dies at 92

Francis Alfred Lepper,emeritus Fellow in Ancient History at CorpusChristi, has died aged 92. Lepperis remembered for his contribution to the study of the Ro­man...

Oxford’s secret garden

Rebecca BuckTurrill GardenSummertownIt is a long bicycle ride from the town centre up to the Turrill Garden, behind the SummertownLibrary, but once you arrive,...

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’...

New College Warden dismisses ‘nonsense’ university league tables

Professor Alan Ryan,Warden of New College, criticised league tables in a recent opinion piece forthe Times Higher education Supplement, say­ing that the “problem with...

Film

In Her Shoes,dir. Curtis Hanson,out now: When Stupid Girl by Garbage announces the start of the film, alarm bells ring over the pretext of...

Hall become rugby champions

St Peter’s 8St Edmund Hall 15St Edmund Hall claimed an attritional, nerve-wrecked title decider against St Peter’s to regain the college rugby title from...

Soc. Shots

This week, the infamous fifth week blues have brought out the moaning teenage solipsists in the best of us, and let’s face it, sixth...

Freshers fall to Tabs

Oxford Men 85Cambridge Men 96Oxford Women 92 Cambridge Women 98The Freshers’ individual performances suggested promise for the upcoming year. Oxford dominated the distance events...

What goes on tour…

The English music scene is a bizarre beast. To be sure, the market suffers from its pap bands that have endless sunshine blown up...

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...
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