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The President of St John’s College JCR, Alasdair Lennon, has been found to have committed electoral malpractice, following a report made by five members of his JCR General Committee to the JCR Returning Officer, Andrew Riddles, on Monday morning.
Continue ReadingThirteen JCRs have passed motions supporting next month’s National Union of Students demonstration on free education, ahead of an OUSU vote on the policy.
Continue ReadingNew College has been forced to apologise to students who were sent an email that gave them less than half an hour to submit entry examination details.
Continue ReadingOxford University received a record number of applications this year, whilst demand for Cambridge places dropped after a rise in entry requirements.
Continue ReadingChrist Church JCR has voted against the creation of an Equal Opportunities Committee.
Continue ReadingOUSU is to start running training for people to facilitate sexual consent workshops specifically focused on issues surrounding consent in “queerer scenarios”, according to Anna Bradshaw, OUSU VP for Women.
Continue ReadingAll copies of the St Johns Gender Equality Festival zine have been doctored to ensure that a controversial article cannot be read.
Continue ReadingWadham freshers have “destroyed” a substantial amount of furniture and turned a rental house into a “bomb site” after a house party at a second year residence got out of control. The second year tenants of the house have set up a crowdfunding page at gofundme.com in order to pay for the damage caused, and […]
Continue ReadingThe academics’ union, University and College Union (UCU), has threatened “marking boycotts and a refusal to set exams” over pension changes. The dispute is over Universities UK’s proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), a pension plan for academics at the UK’s “old” universities including Oxford. The changes are in response to deficit in […]
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Union Secretary Dom Merchant has resigned for ‘health reasons’. Merchant, a 2nd year at New College, issued a statement, saying: “It is with great regret that I am resigning my position as Secretary for health reasons. I have greatly enjoyed my time on committee and am very sorry for the disruption this will cause to […]
Continue ReadingPiers Telemacque, NUS Societies and Citizenship Vice-President, has apologised after characterising all Oxford residents as “rich middle class people”. On 13th August, while at the NUS’ ‘Lead and Change’ seminar, Telemacque tweeted: “I’m so worried about the social issues the rich middle class people in Oxford will be talking about. I’m preparing to be heartbroken […]
Continue ReadingMerton has reestablished its reputation as Oxford’s brainiest college by taking the top spot in this year’s Norrington Table. St John’s moved into second up from third last year and Worcester jumped eight places from 11th to third. New, last year’s table toppers, were demoted to fourth. At the bottom of the table Somerville, Teddy […]
Continue ReadingOxford has won joint 9th place in the ARWU Rankings, moving up one position since last year. Oxford was the second highest ranked UK university, with Cambridge achieving 5th place. The only other UK institutions to be in the top 50 were University College London (20th), Imperial College London (22nd), the University of Manchester (38th) […]
Continue ReadingCongratulations to all 2014 Oxford freshers on your A-Level results. OUSU have produced a welcome video for the incoming 2014 class Twitter has responded quickly to the results with OUSU President, Louis Trup, tweeting “Congrats to everyone coming [email protected]#Oxford in Oct!” One new fresher tweeted “I got into Oxford Uni. I’m mad gassed right now” […]
Continue ReadingPop star Shakira has praised Oxford a cappella group, Out of The Blue, on Twitter. Shakira tweeted “hey @ootboxford we LOVE your a cappella Shak medley!” and linked to Out of The Blue’s ‘Hips Don’t Lie’ mashup video. The single was recorded in aid of Helen and Douglas House, an Oxford children’s hospice. The tweet […]
Continue ReadingThe CPS and Police have decided not to charge Union President Ben Sullivan for rape. Sullivan was arrested for rape and attempted rape on May 7th and bailed until today. At 3.50pm today, Sullivan’s lawyer notified him by phone of the decision of the CPS and Thames Valley Police that no further action would be […]
Continue ReadingLisa Wehden has been elected President of the Oxford Union with a margin of 82 votes. Wehden, a 2nd year at Worcester, beat her rivals Sunny Jain, Queen’s, and Christ Frost, Oriel, in an election held throughout the day yesterday. Both Jain and Wehden fought on a platform of reforming the Union – with Wehden arguing for […]
Continue ReadingThe Union chamber has tonight voted 254-101 to cancel the vote on the motion “This House has no confidence in Ben Sullivan”. The option not to vote on the no-con was proposed by Inigo Lapwood after a fiery debate over the record of Union President Ben Sullivan. Sullivan was arrested for rape and alleged rape […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to The OxStu’s liveblog of the Union debate “This House Has No Confidence in Ben Sullivan”. OUR COVERAGE CONTINUES ON TWITTER- https://twitter.com/TheOxStu 21:03 Mayank Banerjee, President-Elect, stands up to defend Sullivan. Mayank argues that if Sullivan resigns, the running of the Union will not improve because Banerjee will then be running the Union. Banerjee states that […]
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