Union Turns Over a New Leaf
Poor students coming up to Oxford will from this year get the chance to join the Oxford Union at a substantial discount. Life membership, which currently costs £160, will be offered to some freshers for as little as £95.
News: Bursar No-Conned Over Building Fiasco
St Anne's JCR have passed a motion of no confidence in their Domestic Bursar following a series of failed building projects.
News: JCR Rents
Balliol JCR obtained significant concessions from college authorities over proposed rent increases last week.
News: Well Don
A Wadham don has won Britain's richest non-fiction prize on Monday night for his biography of the poet Pushkin.
News: Graduate Arrested
An Oxford graduate briefly became a political prisoner during the Welsh Assembly last month, for holding up a ProLife poster of an abortion whilst standing on a busy street, it has been exclusively revealed to the OxStu.
News: State of Schools
Alan Ryan, the Warden of New College, has advocated the abolition of state school education. Writing in the TLS last week, Ryan criticised the organisational bureaucracy inherent in today's education system, saying that "no interesting advance in twentieth century education began in state schools."
News: Value for Money
The controversy surrounding affiliation to OUSU has provoked a variety of responses from JCRs.
News: Ox Bishop in Gay Bash
The Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, is under fire from evangelical clergy following his appointment of an openly gay minister as Bishop of Reading.
News: Exeter Rector
A senior editor of the Economist has been appointed Rector of Exeter College, writes Hannah Parham.
News: Useless Degrees
University degrees have been criticised by Charles Kennedy for not containing enough "intellectual rigour". The comments of the Leader of the Liberal Democrats have angered both universities and their students.
News: Finalists' Fun?
News: Boat Race Bumped
The date of next year's Boat Race has been announced - for the third time in its history the race will take place on a Sunday, and for the first time ever at 6pm in the evening.
News: Students Green With Rage
Angry students were forced to evacuate the Green Bar on Friday night following a sudden power-cut - the second such incident in a fortnight.
News: Costly Dining
As term comes to an end, Oxford students will face widely varying food bills. In some colleges students are finding that they are paying for meals they did not eat.
News: NEWS In Brief
Early humans became hairless in order to avoid bugs and become sexier, according to a new theory put forward by an Oxford biologist.
News: This week in...
The appearance of a large bee's nest has caused concern amongst apiphobic Hertford students and delight for drunken post-exam revellers.
