Students are united against fees - almost
Stacey Berriman reports. Oxford's campaigners against tuition fees gained an important victory in a vote taken by an OUSU special council on the issue last Friday. The special council, the first in OUSU history, was convened to clarify the position held by OUSU on the issue of student finance.
News: It's take two for Oxford film crew
STILL SUN-KISSED from a recent location search in Italy, the up-and-coming Oxford Film Production Society is currently planning its new project. It follows the success of a joint venture with Cambridge University's Talamasca Films. The Lost Domain, a film adaptation of Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier, was screened on six nights across Oxford and Cambridge and attracted an audience of over 700....
News: Sighs and hert-ache at unlucky College
HERTFORD STUDENTS HAVE been finding out that sometimes it is not good to talk, especially when being overcharged for the privilege.
News: Bike bashing causes scarlet
UNLUCKY HERTFORD HAS experienced more than its share of bad luck this week. As well as problems with the internal phone system, several hapless students found that their bike locks had been ripped off, and their bikes moved from where they had left them.
News: Smokescreen lifted
On Tuesday night 617 Oxford Union members voted in a poll to decide whther smoking should be banned on the ground floor of the institution. The poll was brought by Ashley Peacock, ex-CCC of the Union, after a motion brought to the chamber in 2nd week. Patrick MacKerras, head of Student Action on Smoking and Health (SASH) was the driving force behind the campaign and drummed up a lot of support by canvassing before and during the poll....
News: A dark end for Oxford's nightlife?
OXFORD IS ONE of the dullest universities in the country, according to The Virgin Alternative Guide to British Universities, edited by Piers Dudgeon. The guide offers a "student's eye view of the pubs, the clubs, the buzz", and slates Oxbridge on this score, ranking their social 'scenes' at only 12 out of 20, putting them on a with Essex, Keele and Portsmouth. The universities of Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester achieved full marks....
News: Gently down the stream ... to London
THE NEXT TIME you hear a rower complaining about early mornings or long training periods, tell them about the latest venture by the Hertford rowing club.
News: Gates scholars at Cambridge
OXFORD'S RHODES SCHOLARSHIP is being threatened by a £130 million rival scheme being set up in Cambridge by Microsoft chief Bill Gates.
News: Is this class warfare?
CHANCELLOR GORDON BROWN'S pledge to allocate extra funds for the creation of 'talent-spotting' teams aimed at preventing exceptional students from slipping through the net has been targeted at Oxford.
News: Oxford's defence...
OXFORD UNIVERSITY WAS this week attempting to defend itself in the face of the national accusations of elitism.