Keeping Tabs
Like a lot of graffiti, it is unintelligible to the majority of people.
Features: Going it a-loan: student finance
Delay scares, allegations of student profiteering, and growing concerns about the accuracy of assessment have punctuated these summer months. It is time for a major reconsideration of student loans.
Features: Bizarre and uncomfortable, but this week's great fun
There can be few feelings stranger than the one conjured up by being stood - smile lodged painfully in place, drink sat, a welcome distraction, in hand - in the corner of a room full of people with whom you know you are to become firm friends over the next few years, but about whom you presently know next to nothing: Freshers' Week is an odd time. ...
Features: An Evening with Lucian Freud
Having dismissed an approach for an interview I was surprised when out of the blue Lucian Freud got in touch with me. "Private number" flashed up on my mobile: "Hello Laura-Jane? It's Lucian Freud here. I was wondering if you'd like to come for dinner tomorrow night with myself and Frank Auerbach. I thought you might enjoy yourself". ...
Features: Competitions
Let's face it, Oxford students are a young, sparkly-toothed bunch. We see the sights, see our mates and feel all right on almost an hourly basis. What better way to express this jubilation than by entering our fantastic, celebrity fuelled competition and winning yourself a boheme classical guitar signed by Britpop legends Supergrass?...
Features: 300 Issues of The Oxford Student
From its first days as a struggling fortnightly, The Oxford Student has swayed from serious broadsheet to lurid tabloid and back, has endured threats of legal action and countless long nights, and has broken in the innumerable enthusiasts, who have thrown degree and sleep aside, united only by the desire to establish Oxford's 'other' paper as its best. ...
Features: Straight to Del Ponte
Surrounded by delicately prepared French fancies and brushing an errant soupcon of one from her lips in the Buttery of Lincoln College, Carla Del Ponte sits a universe away from the deeds and lifestyles of those she seeks to prosecute.
Features: The Weirdos of Wimbledon
Fifty-thousand balls, 27,000 kilos of strawberries, 7,000 litres of dairy cream, 206 ball boys, 305,000 cups of tea, 500,000 spectators and six electricians. Year in, year out the English institution that is Wimbledon fortnight pushes such statistics to the forefront of our knowledge.
Features: A Victory for Progress?
Joan Court was cold, tired, and hungry. She hadn't eaten for nearly two days. At 85, most of her peers would be quietly enjoying their retirement. But not Joan.
Features: A Victory for Progress?
Joan Court was cold, tired, and hungry. She hadn't eaten for nearly two days. At 85, most of her peers would be quietly enjoying their retirement. But not Joan.
Features: A Missed Opportunity
It is always a safe bet that a new academic year will see the issue of student funding rear its head once more; true to form, on 8th September the Conservative Party unveiled Funding the Future - its new 'vision' for the reorganisation of the country's higher education system. In fairness to the party, long troubled by a failure to transcend vague populist rhetoric on the topic, the policy articulated is practicable, novel and intriguing. ...
Features: A Missed Opportunity
It is always a safe bet that a new academic year will see the issue of student funding rear its head once more; true to form, on 8th September the Conservative Party unveiled Funding the Future - its new 'vision' for the reorganisation of the country's higher education system. In fairness to the party, long troubled by a failure to transcend vague populist rhetoric on the topic, the policy articulated is practicable, novel and intriguing. ...
Features: Money for Nothing
Twelve months ago, in a flash of snappy genius, the media types of Hansover Square came up with a new idea. Something was missing from the dawning cavity that is the life of the modern man.
Features: Dr Mike Woodin
One of my fullest and warmest memories of Mike Woodin is also one of the most recent. He had just published his book, Green Alternatives to Globalisation: A Manifesto. He had written it jointly with Caroline Lucas, one of the Green Party's first MEPs, and we were holding a party in the Master's Lodgings in Balliol to celebrate. The book, the party and the people in the room said so much about Mike. ...
