Sunday 31st May 2026

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Transgender rights protest in central Oxford following updated EHRC guidance

A march took place this afternoon in central Oxford in support of transgender rights, after new Code of Practice introduced by the UK’s Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). 

Oxford launches initiative to measure national cohesion and belonging

The University of Oxford has launched ‘The National Conversation’, a new initiative to understand the public attitudes towards community, division, and Britain at large.

Physics teaching to relocate amid asbestos concerns

The University of Oxford is relocating its undergraduate physics practical teaching from the Denys Wilkinson Building amid concerns about the presence of asbestos at the ageing site.

Oxford and Ohio Universities receive £9.24 million in funding for research into rare blood cancers

The Oxford-Harrington Rare Disease Centre has received a share of a £9.24 million investment for their research into chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).

Working harder, playing harder

At any one time it is estimated that 0.7% of the world’s population are drunk. In a microcosm such as Oxford this figure, particularly...

Balk at the Wild Side

It seems extremism in all shapes and forms is permeating so many aspects of our lives these days; aside from the everyday worries of...

Shock and Whore

The problem with extreme sex is that I’m not entirely convinced such a thing exists. If anything, it conjures ludicrous images of overweight women...

Violence is not golden

This nefarious exploration of all things savage is a deliberately perverse piece, to such an extent that to grasp either where it’s coming from...

Smashing Entertainment

Bash is a series of three short pieces that show us people who have been pushed over familiar boundaries. Labute’s vision is a bleak...

Court “underestimated” student’s life

The mother of Edmund Sutton, an Oxford student killed in a car crash last year, has expressed her anger and grief after the Cambridge...

Untitled Archive Articles

Left turn Oriel JCR is considering the use of legal force against College bursars. Oriel looks set to take the Estate Bursars Committee to...

Dons call for privatisation

Top college chiefs are pushing the University towards privatisation in a blow to both government tuition-fee plans and the student campaign against top-up fees....

Freshers’ bus stalls after media hype

Oxford students were portrayed as molly-coddled and spoon-fed by the national press last week in the wake of foiled plans by the Oxford University...

Job struggle for poorer students

A new report reveals that for the large majority of working class graduates, the chances of getting “interesting and meaningful” work are slim. The...

Meeting to defend Kelly’s faith

The Oxford Baha’i Society held an open meeting this week following the media frenzy surrounding the death of one of its followers, Dr David...

Wadham bops threatened with closure

Police put an abrupt end to Wadham’s freshers’ bop on Friday night following complaints from local residents over the “unbearable” noise. The organisers cut...

Union defies anti-joining campaign

A University wide campaign, launched to discourage freshers from joining the Union has been traced to anti-smoking campaigners. In a renewed attempt to ban...

Girl survives 20 ft glass drop

Clubbing students watched in shock as a tourist plummeted two storeys through a glass roof outside the Bridge nightclub on Monday night. The young...

Merton don heads Booker

A former drug and gambling addict has been awarded the prestigious Man Booker Prize by a committee chaired by Merton’s Professor of English, John...

Saintly porn

University of Cambridge Cambridge’s Christian Union has some useful ideas about exam ‘technique’, as students attempting to access its revision advice website have been...

Bond-style

University of Melbourne, Australia A female Biology student was rushed to hospital last week after being accidentally shot by a friend with a James...

Builder chaos

University of York York builders, previously featured in Cross Campus for innuendo and sexual harrassment, have stepped up their campaign against exasperated students. Last...

Jesus bar prices raised

Students at Jesus were shocked to return to heavily inflated bar prices at the beginning of Michaelmas. A JCR mandate to reduce the price...

Oxford students UK’s least mothered

Mothers all over the country are going online to keep their children well-fed at university. Oxford students, however, seem more capable of buying their...

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