“You only find out what you love by doing it”
Deborah Meaden talks to Emily Belton about careers and why she almost turned down Dragons’ Den
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Cooking doesn’t get toffer than this
New College appeared on primetime television last week as it hosted BBC One’s MasterChef programme. The culinary show, filmed in October, aired on Wednesday 30th March at 9pm and featured six contestants attempting to cook a three-course formal dinner for 150 students and 15 senior fellows of the college. Judges John Torode and Greg Wallace […]
Continue ReadingBodleian purchases Kafka correspondence
The Bodleian Library and the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach have joined together to purchase a collection of correspondence by celebrated author Franz Kafka to prevent them being auctioned to private collectors. It is believed to be the first time that two such institutions in different countries have cooperated to acquire a literary archive. Richard Ovenden, […]
Continue ReadingOxford offers places to New Zealand students
University gives free places to students affected by Christchurch earthquake.
Continue ReadingUniversity announces tuition fees
University officials have announced tuition fees will be charged on an income-dependent scale from £3500 to £9000 per year for students starting undergraduate courses from 2012 onwards. The University Council last week approved proposals under which most Oxford students will pay the maximum possible fee of £9000, with waivers to reduce the cost for those […]
Continue ReadingChemistry Department goes out with a bang
Students hospitalised after explosion at Chemistry Lab.
Continue ReadingRory and Tim Make Some Friends
Mark Hawley talks to Rory O’Keeffe and Tim Schneider in anticipation of their new sketch show at The Wheatsheaf.
Continue ReadingLosing your RAG: Team No. 2
Jessica Tomkinson recounts her Lost experience. Find out whether her experience restored her faith in humanity or not…
Continue ReadingLosing your RAG
Armed with only a ukulele, tiger pyjama suits and a cardboard sign, George Hicks braved Oxford Lost. Read on to see how he fared…
Continue ReadingGuilty Pleasures
For the last issue, this term’s Features Team bid you farewell with confessions of their own guilty pleasures. While it may be nearing Lent, there is no way we’re giving up these indulgences. Read on to be suitably shocked…
Continue ReadingA guilt-free pleasure
Hannah Martin tells you how and why you can get involved with The Oxford Hub volunteering.
Continue ReadingSoc-Hopping No. 15: The Oxford Muse Society
This Week: Thomas Moyser chews the cud with The Oxford Muse Society.
Continue ReadingAskStu: Issue 8
Stu answers all your questions…
Continue ReadingOxford dominated by white tutors
The number of academic staff in Oxford from ethnic minorities is lower than the national average, according to figures obtained by The Oxford Student. The statistics show that only 6.3 percent of academics at the University identify themselves as a member of an ethnic minority group, compared to a national average of 8.6 percent, taken […]
Continue ReadingLegal challenge to new fee levels
Two teenagers are launching a judicial review into the government’s decision to increase university fees.
Continue ReadingMissing Brookes student appears
A student who was reported missing after failing to attend lectures for two weeks has been found safely.
Continue ReadingWhite paper reforms delayed
Next year’s applicants may be in the dark about fee levels.
Continue ReadingImprovements in college finance
he reports show an improvement in the general financial state of colleges.
Continue ReadingTutors rage at coalition cuts
Porter has faced criticism for his handling of tuition fees debates.
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