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Image Credit: Matt Buck (CC-BY-SA-2.0) Since July 6, all rail services, passenger and freight, have been stopped from passing through Oxford Station as controversial construction plans get underway. The works are part of Network Rail’s plan to expand the rail capacity in the Oxford Corridor. Network Rail have outlined the project detailing as follows: “We […]
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Image Credit: Photo © Andrew Shiva (cc-by-sa/4.0) Public consultation has begun on plans for a new business community to be developed by Thomas White Oxford, on behalf of St. John’s College. Previously known as Northern Gateway, Oxford North is intended for redevelopment into an expansive business space. The plans include a new central street, open green […]
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Image credit: Photo © Bill Tyne (cc-by/2.0) A report released by Student.com, the world’s largest marketplace for student housing, has revealed that student rent in Oxford is the second highest in the UK, and 8th highest in the world. The figures have been released in Student.com’s annual report which sampled over 12,000 students in 125 […]
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Cambridge has won both the women’s and men’s races in the 2018 Boat Race this afternoon, after winning both coin tosses. In the 73rd women’s boat race, Cambridge recorded a time of 19 minutes and 9 seconds, after a record-winning 18 minutes and 33 seconds in 2017. The men’s was closer, with a time of […]
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Data uncovered by MP David Lammy has found that inequality in Oxbridge offers is on the rise 81 percent of offers in 2015 were made to members of the top two social classes, which constitute 31 percent of the national population. This had risen from 79 percent in 2010. Geographical divisions were also stark; last […]
Continue ReadingProfessor Irene Tracey, head of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience, has been chosen as Merton’s new warden, the college has announced. Professor Tracey will be Merton’s second female warden after Dame Jessica Rawson, who held the position from 1994 until 2010. She will succeed Sir Martin Taylor in September 2018. An alumna of the […]
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The body found at Westgate Oxford shopping centre on Monday has been identified as Max Mian, a 2nd year student at Brasenose College studying Classics. Construction work on the centre, due to open in three weeks, has been halted for police to investigate the death. A Thames Valley Police spokesperson said that the death remains […]
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The planning application to redevelop The Cellar into retail space was withdrawn on Wednesday after public outcry against closing the nightclub. A Change.org petition to save The Cellar reached more than 13,000 signatures, and a Facebook event titled “Save the Cellar” had over 1,100 people register as “going” and a further 1,800 “interested”. “Support flooded […]
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Oxford keeps ticking even when its students are on holiday – so we at the OxStu News team have put together a weekly newsletter for all your Oxford news in one quick bite. Every Monday, to start your week, we’ll bring student, university, research and city news all together in one place. Student 100,000 sign […]
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Oliver Mears, chemistry student at St Hugh’s College, today made an appearance in court to plead ‘not guilty’ to charges of rape and sexual assault. Mears, who finished his first year at Oxford University this summer, has rusticated until 2018 in light of his trial dates, which were set to begin on 22 January and […]
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Oxford keeps ticking even when its students are on holiday – so we at the OxStu News team have put together a weekly newsletter for all your Oxford news in one quick bite. Every Monday, to start your week, we’ll bring student, university, research and city news all together in one place. Student Council clamp […]
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Andrew Warren, a senior treasury assistant at Somerville College, has been charged with first degree murder in the US for his involvement in the death of Trenton Cornell-Duranleau, a 26 year old hairstylist. He is charged alongside Wyndham Lathem, former professor of Northwestern University in Chicago. The results of a post-mortem examination, announced last Friday, […]
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A suspect has been arrested after six cars in North Oxford were set on fire in the early hours of Sunday morning, in what police believe to be a series of arson attacks. Residents reported that “flames were reaching to the top of the houses”, and believe that the attacks were random. No one was […]
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Oxford keeps ticking even when its students are on holiday – so we at the OxStu News team have put together a weekly newsletter for all your Oxford news in one quick bite. Every Monday, to start your week, we’ll bring student, university, research and city news all together in one place. Student NSS respondents […]
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New College has jumped to the top of the Norrington Table this year with 79.12 percent, knocking Merton into second place with 78.99 percent and Pembroke coming third with 77.47 percent. Of the 114 finalists of New College, 57 achieved Firsts, making them the only college to obtain more Firsts than Upper Seconds. Merton won […]
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Oxford keeps ticking even when its students are on holiday – so we at the OxStu News team have put together a weekly newsletter for all your Oxford news in one quick bite. Every Monday, to start your week, we’ll bring student, university, research and city news all together in one place. Student Admissions to […]
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Andrew Warren, 56, senior treasury assistant at Somerville College and murder suspect, has turned himself in last night, eight days after a 26 year old’s body was found in the apartment owned by his alleged accomplice, Wyndham Lathem, 42. The body of Trenton Cornell-Duranleau, a hair stylist, was found in Lathem’s Chicago apartment on 27 […]
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Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital is closing its trauma unit after assessment of its fire safety found the building had “serious and embedded fire safety issues”, according to a report by fire safety consultancy Trenton Fire. The Oxford University Hospitals NHS foundation trust (OUH) had commissioned the report in the wake of the fire which destroyed […]
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An international team of experts including Oxford academics have claimed that The University of Strasbourg may hold the remains of Holocaust victims in its collection of anatomical specimens. The assertion followed two years of research conducted after the discovery of remains of murdered Jews that had been brought to Nazi occupied Strasbourg. The academics revealed […]
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