Accommodation crisis looms for Oxford
Oxford University is facing a potential student accommodation crisis, exacerbated by the increasing numbers of students being accepted by the University, and the Government's national target to raise the proportion of 18 to 30 year olds in Higher Education to 50 per cent.
News: Restrictions on Magdalen Bridge
Thames Valley Police have warned students not to jump from Magdalen Bridge in the traditional May Day festivities.
News: Drink safe: spike the spikers
How many times have you accepted a drink from someone you barely knew? How often have you shared a drink with somebody? Have you ever left your drink while you had a dance or a chat or just nipped to the loo? Even once may be one time too many.
News: All Work and No Play...
University used to be the time when students could let loose and behave badly, but recent research paints a very different picture.
News: Homeless hit by Hepatitis
A recent study initiated by the Institute of Sciences and Oxford University has shown that one in four homeless people in Oxford are infected with Hepatitis C, posing a major public health concern.
News: Students not intimidated by new celebration Code of Conduct
Despite the massive press coverage given to the University's new Code of Conduct for post-exam revelry Oxford's students seem to have paid little heed to the warnings to tone down their actions.
News: Elections looming for OUSU positions
OUSU Vice President elect for women, Ros Dampier, has been forced to resign this week due to ill health.
News: Boy Racers
A group of Engineering students from Oxford Brookes are to take their self-designed car to Detroit next month to compete in the Formula SAE championship.
News: Oxford's Sherlock Holmes dies
An inquest has heard how an Oxford graduate, who was one of the world's foremost experts on Sherlock Holmes, was found dead in mysterious circumstances writes Tim Partridge.
News: Alternative animal testing
Government plans are in progress to create a new research centre with the aim of developing alternatives to animal testing.
News: Stunt pair on trial
The trial began this week for the pair accused of the manslaughter of an Oxford undergraduate in 2002 after he fell 100 feet from a human catapult.
News: Icelandic Generosity
Icelandic Prime Minister David Oddsson on Tuesday donated £25,000 to Oxford University on behalf of his government for the development of Icelandic studies writes Tom Rayner.
News: The Week In Two Minutes
Arsenal won the premiership. Ron Atkinson resigned from ITV after describing Marcel Desailly as a "fucking lazy thick nigger" off-air after Tuesday's Champion League match.
