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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 Room (MCR) removes a Pride flag from its window. Students have also criticised the College's...

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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 Union believes the commodification of women has gone too far

Last Thursday, the Oxford Union passed the motion “This House believes that the commodification...

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Number of offers to state school students falls

The number of state school pupils who received an offer from Oxford University fell this year despite an increase in the number of applications....

University refutes racism accusations

Government minister, David Lammy has accused Oxford of prejudice against black applicants, a claim rejected by the University. In The Guardian newspaper, Lammy accused...

Dubious Oxford entry

Oxford may be obliged to earmark ‘wild-card’ places for state school pupils who gain unexpectedly high grades at A-level. The proposal aims to help...

Howard’s radical son takes orders

The son of Conservative Party leader Michael Howard is training to become an Anglican priest, six years after he was accused of “spiritual nazism” in Cherwell.Howard,...

No traffic charge

The Oxford City Council has ruled out a London-style congestion charge to ease the city’s grid-locked streets. Despite initially considering the scheme following the...

Worst shopping

Oxford is one of the worst places to shop in the UK, a new survey says, and is unlikely to improve. The survey of...

City Bursars

Amidst growing speculation over the financial future of British Universities, Oxbridge college bursars have increasingly been looking to the City to consider their investment...

OUP is top

Oxford University Press (OUP) is Britain’s top publisher according to an annual league published in the trade magazine ‘The Bookseller.’ A spokesperson from the...

Tasty – Kelis

Kelis has always been a lucky girl. Coming from a middleclass Harlem family, she learnt violin, piano and saxophone at private school, and ended...

The Diary of Alicia Keys

Being compared to Aretha Franklin, winning an unprecedented five Grammys, and selling ten million copies of her first album world-wide – all at the...

Squarking with Delight

It’s probably a safe bet that most British readers won’t have encountered contemporary Native Americans in their leisure literature. With the recent publication of...

Chatting up…Nigella Lawson

What books are currently on your bedside table?The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon; Just Like Mother Used to...

Playboy

“Hefner never believed Playboy was an art magazine”. As surprising revelations go, this is more 32AA than 36DD. Yet this is the introductory eyeopener...

Little Black Book of Stories

Short stories are funny things. I had never read any Byatt before and was, I confess, dubious about reviewing her new collection for the...

Tune ON, Tune IN

Out with the old and in with the new for this year’s TV - or rather, old formats dressed up as new ones. Among...

Varsity future in safe hands

Blues Rugby captain John Allen surveyed the past term and declared “This was the year to become more expansive”. The MMC Trophy may have...

Ex-Pembroke Master writes wrongs

Labour MPs, members of the Opposition, and opponents of topup fees all come in for withering criticism in an ex-Pembroke Master’s recently published treatise...

Baby Blues provide cheer in ruthless first half performance

Oxford U21 22Cambridge U21 0Oxford’s youngsters went some way towards making up for their senior colleagues’ narrow inability to pick up the MMC Trophy...

Czech Mates

Blues footballers enjoyed a tour of Prague as they looked to limber up for the second half of the BUSA season. Arran Yentob’s side...

Pegged back at the last

Oxford 11Cambridge 11In the 72nd minute, Cambridge winger and fresher, Charlie Desmond, lived up to his billing as the “speedster” and “bolter” of the...

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Hertford College faces student criticism for limiting display of Pride flag

Encaenia in photos: Oxford’s honorary degree award ceremony

Oxford admissions report reveals significant college and subject disparities

Oxford Union believes the commodification of women has gone too far

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