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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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UEFA fails to deal with thugs

Tuesday 5 April 2005. A special moment in the history of European football as Liverpool fans atone for the horrors of the past with...

NUS anti-Semitism condemned by JSoc

The Presidents of the Oxford University Jewish Society have condemned the National Union of Students (NUS) for its “failure to confront anti-Semitism”.The Annual NUS...

Health

Bipolar disorderMANIC DEPRESSION, or bipolar disorder, is essentially a brain disfunction causing unusual shifts in a person’s mood and energy. These shifts are manifested...

‘Even though we train so much’

Binyamin Even talks to OUBC President Robin Bourne-Taylor in about life as a Blues rower in Oxford Robin Bourne-Taylor represents you. As President of...

Accident halts High Street

On Monday afternoon a 22-year old woman was involved in an accident with a Stagecoach bus on High Street, bringing the City Centre to...

Eat

Ben Coffer gorges on piesTHE BE-MULLETED eighties pop duo Tears For Fears were wrong about so much, yet in one respect they were right...

The sensitive iconographer

Fifty years after Satyajit Ray’s monumental debut ‘Pather Panchali’ stunned critics and enthralled audiences at home and abroad, Somak Ghoshal examines the legacy of...

Touched by Fire – BT Late

This intriguing drama deals with a theme which has never been more relevant to society, exploring as it does the nature of terrorism. Inspired...

British Sea Power Live

British Sea Power landed on a stage festooned with foliage and an assortment of plastic birds. The fresh-faced five have cultivated a country-life chic...

Drink: Browns

Browns 5 - 11 Woodstock Road 01865 319655 The bar in Browns may not immediately leap to mind as the ideal student hangout –...

‘We won’t win the war’

MI5 boss tells LMH students the Iraq-damaged ’War on Terror’ cannot be won The Director General of the Security Services (MI5) returned to her...

Bare-faced cheek of thief at Regent’s

A member of Regent’s Park kitchen staff had her belongings stolen during a bizarre incident at dinner on Tuesday evening. The man who made...

The grudge match: OUSU vs Oriel

OUSU, ever the whipping boy of right wing colleges, got one in the eye this week as it found itself sabotaged from within. No...

Illegal opportunities for student voters

Yesterday’s local and European elections were shrouded in controversy across the country as the postal vote system was lambasted from all sides and arrests...

Colleges force final chapter

Two central Oxford bookshops are set to close this year, because of ever increasing rent rises from the “utterly ruthless” colleges which own the...

Six hundred lawyers cunted

A New College student has been called up for a disciplinary hearing, after he ‘replied-all’ to the Law Soc mailing-list with a single abusive...

OUSU support Stu Two

OUSU will be debating an emergency motion today in support of the two OxStu journalists who are facing a Court of Summary Jurisdiction for...

Firefight closure may soon strike Bod

Firefighters in Oxford are recommending a ballot for industrial action at their conference on 15 June. Any industrial action is likely to cause disurption...

Massacre at Barbecue

The quiet of the small South Oxfordshire village of Henley was ripped apart this week as a father started shooting members of his family...

Ecstatic Strangler

A man is in court for strangling his fiancée to death in an Oxford hotel last year. He claims both he and his fiancée...
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