"Capital of Suffering"
Oxford University's new facility for housing laboratory animals, currently under construction, will be a "legitimate target" for violent protests, according to animal rights activists.
News: Universities warned over fee fixing
Representatives from Oxford University have supposedly held meetings with other top British universities about issues surrounding top-up fees, leading to possible allegations of price fixing.
News: Oxford's Number Two
Despite being highly praised, Oxford's public toilets have lost out in the Loo of the Year competition.
News: Heroin Death
A man has died after taking a lethal dose of a dangerously pure batch of heroin, a week after it hit the streets of Oxford.
News: Sale Stopper
The Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, has called on the government to do more to prevent important works of literature being sold abroad.
News: Manslaughter Hearing
Two men charged with the manslaughter of an Oxford University undergraduate will undergo a Directions Hearing later this week, to hear how their case will progress, writes Patrick Foster.
News: Violent Wave Hits Students
The recent crime spate in Oxford escalated this week with three students from Wadham College being viciously attacked on Wednesday evening.
News: Bannister breaks 50 barrier
Sir Roger Bannister's record-breaking achievement of the first four-minute-mile run is to be celebrated 50 years on in Oxford on 6th May.
News: Celebrity Varsity
It has emerged that the BBC is producing an alternative boat race, featuring celebrities who attended Oxford and Cambridge.
News: Green-eyed over Greenfield
The nomination of one of Oxford University's most high-profile professors, Baroness Susan Greenfield, to the fellowship of the Royal Society has sparked a controversial row within its membership.
News: Beeb Bites Back
Staff at BBC Oxford added their voices to the nationwide protest in support of the BBC's independence last Thursday.
News: Get Ethical
On the 21st February Oxford students will be offered an alternative to the usual series of corporate milk rounds.
News: Sports to be Scrapped?
Students at Southampton University have been told of possible plans to scrap their subjects and transfer them elsewhere to finish their courses, writes Richard Bliault.
News: Going for Gold
Sir Michael Beloff QC, the President of Trinity College, has been appointed to the Ethics Advisory wing of the Board of London, the organisation responsible for overseeing the capital's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.
News: Bird Brain Research
Oxford research received considerable exposure last week as the national press reported pioneering work into pigeon path-finding.
News: Love is in the air
Societies from all over the University have organised events this week from blind dates to balls in preparation for Valentine's Day this Saturday.
