Exams and Music Fac could move, says Uni
A planning document drawn up by Oxford City Council has revealed that the University is intending to relocate examinations out of Ewert House in Summertown.
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Fun run raises £100,000
Development offices in Oxford played host to a town vs gown charity fun run. Estimates suggest it raised between £100,000 and £120,000.
Continue ReadingPembroke to build footbridge
First bridge to be built in Oxford since the Bridge of Sighs just under a century ago.
Continue ReadingOxford University Press unveils plans for expansion
Plans to knock down Victorian workshops and build a modern extension are criticised by residents and heritage groups
Continue ReadingOxford researchers find new benefits of aspirin
Three studies support previous evidence and suggest that a daily dose may aid cancer treatment
Continue ReadingCowley Road Carnival cancelled
Annual celebration to take a break in 2012 to allow for Olympics and Jubilee celebrations
Continue ReadingHilda’s U-turn on student housing
College pulls out of graduate accommodation development as councillor compares the plans to a “Trojan horse”
Continue ReadingBank robbery in Summertown
Search on for two men who robbed Lloyds TSB in Banbury Road and assaulted manager
Continue ReadingSaïd wants a new Thatcher-ed roof
Controversial Saudi-Syrian billionaire criticised for reportedly wanting to name new building after former Prime Minister
Continue ReadingBallot reforms at Teddy Hall and Hilda’s
Teddy Hall flatly rejects motion to reform ballot system while Hilda’s passes a similar motion
Continue ReadingStudents’ charitable abstinence
Students to donate money saved from giving up alcohol to Oxford-based charity
Continue ReadingHere come the fun police?
City Council “extremely likely” to spend up to £12,000 on night-time “party patrols”
Continue ReadingMagdalen balls-up
All students who have rusticated, including those on medical grounds, to be banned from Commemoration Ball
Continue ReadingBodleian finishes book move
Bodleian 2015 plans approach completion after seven millionth book is moved to Swindon storage facility
Continue ReadingBod makes big bucks on books
Library takes in over £400,000 fines in three years but reports over 20,000 books missing
Continue ReadingUni pencils for Polish pupils
University’s commercial affiliate signs three-year deal for branded school stationery in Poland and Romania
Continue ReadingTolkien snubbed by Nobel judges
Newly released files from 1961 show author’s work was deemed unsatisfactory by Nobel committee
Continue ReadingStudy analyses the role of Twitter in protest movements
A timely Oxford study looks at how Twitter and social media are used in protests and riots
Continue ReadingWilletts defends policies in front of academics at British Academy
Review of panel discussion at British Academy in London which saw the Universities Minister defend and debate his policies with the country’s leading academics
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