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Striking workers demonstrate at Oxford University Press

A demonstration in favour of striking finance workers was held outside the Oxford University Press (OUP) last week, as the dispute over offshoring at the world’s oldest publishing house...
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Pitt Rivers Museum returns Māori artefact to New Zealand

The Pitt Rivers Museum, with assistance from The Homebound Project, has returned a kahu...
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Oxford-Cambridge “Growth corridor” falls behind global competition

The “growth corridor” connecting Oxford and Cambridge is falling behind its global rivals despite its world-leading research output, a new report has warned.
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Rhodes scholarships cut amid financial difficulties

The Rhodes Trust has restricted funding for professional degrees and reduced spending on events for scholars at Oxford amid financial difficulties.
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Top of a United world

Oxford University delegates shone in the World Model United Nations conference, held in Egypt this Easter. The twentyfour- delegate, intercollegiate team debated with other...

Foreign influx is fake

Oxford University dismissed talk of an influx of foreign students this week, following Saturday’s admission of ten new states to the European Union. ...

Tab creates colleges

Cambridge is set to meet a growing demand for places by opening three new colleges. The plans, if approved of by the local council,...

News in Brief

Harry’s the business Said Business School hired a man from East London to pose as Harry Potter for the day, brightening up luncheon at...

Thoughts of the Week…

If yet another malicious union tribunal wasn’t enough to further disillusion the ordinary student from the pathetic self-important joke that is Oxford student politics...

DRINK: Maxwell’s

There are so many great things about this stalwart of student alcoholism that it’s hard not to be too gushing in one’s praise. Drinks...

EAT: Liaison

It is so refreshing to find a restaurant in Oxford that is truly authentic; you won’t find the modern British twist on the spring...

‘Hats life

In a parallel universe, the sun is shining on Oxford, and the clever students are donning hats for a number of reasons. Not only...

Fashionistas ‘flaunt it’

The prestigious halo of academia which surrounds Oxford means that it is not often described as the central hub of student style and innovation....

It’s a wonderful world

A new book out this week: Fifty Facts That Should Change the World by Jessica Williams, charts a series of horrifying statistics that gives...

Safari Envy

The ranger sat back in his chair, his hands clasped comfortably behind his head. He gazed around at the collection of English gap-year students...

Charlatan by name, gentleman by nature

Tony Rogers is cheerful – and well he might be. The Charlatans are about to release their eighth album, Up at the Lake, which...

Just Hit Repeat

It was Oscar Wilde who remarked that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and this maxim couldn’t be truer than when discussing the...

Dead Icons Society

The recent tenth anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain may well have prompted an outpouring of grief from Seattle to London but such...

Chatting up… John Furse

Blind Flight is the true story of two hostages, Brian Keenan and John McCarthy. What drew you to make a film of their experiences?...

Gauloise cigarettes and classical gods

To be Antigone is to be doomed, laments the Chorus of her play. While certainly not doomed as a piece of theatre, there are...

Three Little Wolves

The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig is a children’s story (an obvious subversion of the traditional “I’ll huff and I’ll puff...

The Shield

Menander’s The Shieldis comedy in its finest form. The suberb translation by Giles Evans is complemented by fine acting, especially by Rose Pater’s Miss...

Kafka’s Dick

This production of Kafka’s Dick, directed by Sophie Buchan and Sara Carroll, is an excellent interpretation of Bennett’s absurdist comedy. It focusses on the...

Horror and Depp-ravity in the woods

Johnny Depp really should get himself a new agent. The man has worldwide adulation from female fans, and a talent as reliable as any...
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