Doing an all-nighter
Surprisingly, the prospect of sleeping outside in a graveyard at the mercy of the biting wind and rain appealed to about 90 people on Saturday night as the annual sponsored Oxford Sleep-Out, which raises money for the town's homeless, got underway.
Features: The definitive word on access
Most people will remember the unfair comments about Oxford made by Gordon Brown in May. Since then the admissions figures for Oxford have been released and weren't as bad as expected. Laura Spence has gone to Harvard and is apparently having a good time. The work of the University Admissions Office, the Access Scheme and OUSU Target Schools continues. However, the problem about access to Oxford, and in fact access to Britain's best universities remains and is one that needs to be addressed....
Features: Skylight stars
The thought of Steven Spielberg putting on a production of Waiting For Godot would at best amuse and at worst appal the average person. It's not that you'd think he wasn't up to the job, in theory. But rather, how do you reconcile billion-dollar blockbusters with Beckett?