‘Seek the truth courageously’: Here’s the Pope’s advice to Oxford students

Apparently your tutor isn’t the only person with thoughts on how you should approach your Oxford degree


University of Oxford offer holders lose High Court challenge to ‘visa brake’

The policy prevents nationals from Sudan, Afghanistan, Cameroon and Myanmar from applying for student visas

university students selling eggs

The UK unis where students are targeted by IVF clinics offering thousands for their eggs

One Edinburgh student was offered between £3,000 and £9,000 for her eggs

Count Binface is actually an Oxford alumnus – and here’s the backstory

He studied Classics at Oxford before becoming a 5,900-year-old intergalactic space warrior

The gap in Oxford college endowments per student – from £1.23m at Magdalen to just £2,400

Magdalen sits on £1.23m in endowment per student while Green Templeton has just £2,400 – according to The Tab’s analysis of Oxford’s latest college accounts

Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by NSS learning resources 2026 – Oxford tops, Glasgow lowest

Liverpool ranks third for learning resources ahead of Warwick and Imperial, while Glasgow scores lowest of any Russell Group university at 86.7 per cent in the National Student Survey 2026

Ranked: Russell Group unis by student value for money – Oxford seventh, Cambridge misses top 20

Ulster University topped the rankings overall while 15 Russell Group universities, including Cambridge, Manchester and Durham failed to make StudentCrowd’s top 20 for value for money

Ranked: All 24 Russell Group unis by NSS student voice scores – Oxford lowest at 67.3 per cent

Sheffield leads the Russell Group at 84.6 per cent for student voice – while Oxford scores just 67.3 per cent, the lowest of any Russell Group university in the National Student Survey 2026

Ranked: Every Russell Group uni by QS arts and humanities 2026 – Oxford tops, Southampton last

Oxford scores 97.8 for arts and humanities in the QS 2026 rankings – Southampton scores just 69.6, a gap of 28.2 points between the highest and lowest Russell Group universities

Ranked: All 24 Russell Group universities by interest and finance costs – Oxford pays £36.8m

Oxford pays over five times more in interest and finance costs than Cambridge, despite both being old, wealthy universities