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Image Description: Four players gather around the net during a training session College sport has been severely disrupted due to the pandemic. Despite the difficulties, at Merton college Roheena Buckland, Victoria Moon, and Ebube Akojie have managed to set up a mixed-gender Netball team to compete in the cuppers league. The three co-captains detailed the […]
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Image Description: a picture of one of the quads at Merton College. Merton College has officially announced its commitment to paying its staff the Oxford Living Wage. The college joined the scheme in April 2020 but delayed its announcement due to the pandemic. The Oxford Living Wage is an hourly minimum rate of pay that […]
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Leonie Woodland is a third-year at Merton College who lead the Merton team in the University Challenge final of 2018. The team played against St John’s College, Cambridge, who were victorious in winning the overall competition with a score of 145-100. However, the Merton Team excelled throughout the whole competition, Leonie particularly catching attention due […]
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Image Credit: Alex Kumar Today at 5pm, a number of homeless people are set to be evicted from a site owned by Merton College, Oxford. The field, which is claimed to be overgrown and unused, has been a place several homeless people have been using as a place to sleep. A photo of the sign […]
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The performance of this year’s finalists has seen Magdalen and New College rise to claim first and second positions in the famous college rankings, while Merton has unprecedentedly sunk from first in last year’s table to fourth from bottom. One college whose ranking did not change from last year was Pembroke, remaining in final position. […]
Continue ReadingMerton College has announced that it has met its £30 million fundraising goal ahead of the end-of-year deadline.
Continue ReadingScientists at Oxford, St Andrews, Bristol and The Max Plank Institute in Nijmegen, have identified a link between a network of genes, whose role is to influence growth of young embryos, and the characteristic known as left or right handedness. Handedness has been a social and cultural issue for thousands of years, with 70-95% of […]
Continue ReadingMagdalen College has reclaimed the place at the top of the Norrington Table which it lost last year to Merton College. A preliminary version of the table, which ranks Oxford colleges by undergraduate degree classifications, was published by the University on Monday. The latest table sees Brasenose continue its seemingly unstoppable ascent to take second […]
Continue ReadingRichard Foord reports on a game that leaves both sides flirting with relegation
Continue ReadingRadio 3 broadcast evensong from Merton choir as they launch their album
Continue ReadingMerton have forced MedSoc to relocate after their dissection drinks was ‘a bit too much’
Continue ReadingAs colleges release their undergraduate degree results for 2010/11, Merton has come top in the interim Norrington Table as last year’s leader Magdalen falls to fourth.
Continue ReadingSome colleges’ welfare practices revealed to be more harmful than helpful, with inconsistent application across the University
Continue ReadingA closer look at the pay and perks of Oxford’s senior administrators
Continue ReadingIn the college contest for top results in Finals, just one exam can make all the difference – and money doesn’t hurt either.
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