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New RAI donation to fund Oxford’s first US politics postgraduate course

The Rothermere American Institute (RAI) has announced a major donation to fund a new Associate Professorship in US Politics and support the launch of a specialist postgraduate course in the field.

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Rachel Reeves doubles funding for Oxford-Cambridge corridor

The Chancellor has announced plans for a Greater Oxford Development Corporation and doubled funding for the "growth corridor" to £800 million.

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Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care launches International Advisory Board

The Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences has recently announced a new International Advisory Board (IAB) to provide independent advice and international perspectives to support the Department’s Strategy 2025-2030.

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Timothée Chalamet appointed Visiting Professor of the Arts

The French-American actor Timothée Chalamet has been appointed Visiting Professor of the Arts for...

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French finalists were dealt yet another blow last Thursday when the Chairman of Examiners and the Proctors issued a letter stating that the listening...

Colleges Deny "Rent Conspiracy"

A number of JCR Presidents believe that an inter-collegiate conspiracy is to blame for soaring student accommodation costs across Oxford University. Suspicions were raised after...

Mansfield Fire Failure

Faulty electrics at Mansfield College were the cause of a fire which left undergraduates without a computer room last week. Students, tutors and staff...

Don Demands Carnal Knowledge

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Tories Target Top-Up Fees

The University has controversially adopted policy in support of top-up fees in the same week that the Conservative party pledged to eliminate all university...

Vitamin Value

Vitamin supplements are ineffective, a study by Oxford scientists has shown writes Rosa Silverman. While millions of Britons have been taking these pills in...

JCR Pres Resigns

Penny Berrill resigned as Hilda’s JCR president this week, citing ill health as the reason why she could not continue in Oxford this term....

Atwood

Margaret Atwood, acclaimed Canadian writer and former Booker Prize winner, is to visit Oxford this week to promote her new novel, Oryx and Crake....

Oxford Spies

Speculation has been sparked recently about the existence of KGB-run Oxford spy ring in the 1930’s, writes Christopher Harris. Christopher Andrews, a professor at...

Stock Exchange

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Royal Pretender to Address Union

The Oxford Union may face awkward questions on Sunday after advertising its speaker as ‘The Crown Prince of Burma’ although neither the country nor...

Sexy Christians

In what has been breathlessly described as ‘the most exciting Christian Union meeting in the world ever’, the Cambridge CU has introduced the ‘Sex,...

Essex Bunnies

Due to a particularly slow news week, the Essex Rabbit set out to tackle the burning issue: ‘Is Essex an ugly University?’ 77% of...

Food Riots

A criminal investigation is underway at the Glenbrook campus after five students were injured in an annual initiation ritual; one with a broken wrist,...

Is Medieval History Bunk?

I don’t mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is reason for the State to pay for them.” These comments,...

Watch all the Clocks

The passing of time has always been a fascinating and troubling notion for mankind, and the thought of somehow ‘caging the minute’, to borrow...

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Truthis a fish. So speaks the hero of Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (Atlantic Books, £7.99) by Richard Flanagan, a...

Living the High Life

Smalltown America is not a pretty sight. For the most part the towns are modern yet faded and characterless with minimal allure, unless of...

Three Goats Heads

The Three Goat’s Heads is the kind of pub that you only get in city centres. First impressions are that it is a joyless,...

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News

New RAI donation to fund Oxford’s first US politics postgraduate course

Rachel Reeves doubles funding for Oxford-Cambridge corridor

Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care launches International Advisory Board

Timothée Chalamet appointed Visiting Professor of the Arts

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