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Thanks to a number of crucial breakthroughs this year, the World’s media have centred their recent attention on the development of so-called ‘cancer vaccines’. But what are these potentially life-saving treatments? In the first installment of our new OxStu Explains series, we answer this fascinating question. The post
Oxfordshire County Council has written to the government’s Planning Inspectorate, formally objecting to the proposed expansion of the Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre near Kidlington. In a 21 Septemeber press release, the council noted that it had considered the controversial history of the centre, highlighting th
School’s back in, and for most, the long university summer is drawing to a close. Only for Oxford students is September yet another full month of ‘vacation’. But let’s cast our minds back to those magical school summers, when the impossible strictures of our world made a picnic at the common with friends or a lone swim
In 2026, film fashion exploded out from the silver screen and decorated premiere red-carpets worldwide in a phenomenon known as method-dressing. From Lili Reinhart’s love letter to rom coms on her The Love Hypothesis press tour, to Zendaya’s ode to the gods during her promotion of The Odyssey, this embrace of fashion-b
It is official - Oxford will have a second, brand new student political society in Michaelmas 2026: the Oxford Student Greens. I sat down with President Nidal Shah to dig into what students can expect of its inaugural term, what it plans to achieve, and why a Green society makes sense now. The post Mothin Ali, ‘Lemonad
Piddington, an Oxfordshire village of 358 residents, has voted in favour of independence from the United Kingdom in a council-organised referendum. On Tuesday 15 September, in a televised BBC broadcast, Susannah Parden, the Vice-Chair of Piddington Parish Council and Returning Officer announced the results of the vote
Oxford is a city, and university, of old and new. The fast approach of Michaelmas term, marking the start of a new academic year, is the perfect time to consider what came before and what lies ahead. ‘The universe from beginning to end,’ the latest lecture in Green Templeton College’s Astronomy for All series, provided
Music and politics have never existed entirely separately. Literature, paintings, photography, fashion, theatre, protest posters and songs have long given political movements a language — and, crucially, an audience. The post Daisy Chain Fields: The Power of Community appeared first on The Oxford Student .
Travelling through Northern Portugal and Galicia, in Spain, you’d never notice the unassuming stone pillars with a yellow arrow, pointing pilgrims towards Santiago de Compostela, that dot the region’s streets. When you become one of those pilgrims, however, and each marker provides the only small boost of adrenaline yo
Government plans to more than double the capacity of an immigration removal centre near the University of Oxford will face a public inquiry, bringing renewed scrutiny to immigration detention in Oxfordshire. The Home Office is seeking to expand Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre, near Kidlington in Oxfordshire, from
It was the evening of the 26th of June in the United Kingdom. Across the Atlantic, Spain were about to face Uruguay in the group stage of the World Cup. Here in Oxford, my college was hosting its summer ball, and I was wearing the Spanish flag as a cape. As I carefully made my way through a maze of extremely questionab
My Bengali roots are undeniably entwined with the earth of London’s ‘East End’. The historical melting pot of this little industrial part of London paved my way to Oxford. How? A generation of people migrated to London for work, established food places for convenience, and brought their families over too. I am often re
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