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"The floors carrying the stacks under Broad St and the Radcliffe Camera penetrate up to four levels below street level. The water table in the alluvial gravels approaches street level during the wet season and rests only a few metres below it at other times. In effect, these storage facilities are like large tanks sitting in a surrounding lake." - John Hood, 3/5/2005
Special Akme Sub-Index of articles about Oxford's exciting plan to build Academe's first underwater library |
August 2005: CORRECTION: OXFORD IS RACIST - officialKeble pays Asian accountant 'substantial damages' exclusive reportLate in 2004, to celebrate the fact that no legal action alleging racial discrimination had ever successfully been brought against any Oxford college or the University, Akme assembled a special Oxford Is Not Racist subindex of reported incidents and failed lawsuits. Now with the dramatic conclusion of Diamond Versi vs Keble College & Roger Boden, in which both the college and its bursar have been found guilty of racial discrimination and unfair dismissal, Oxford's blameless record and reputation have been irrevocably shattered. For the benefit of scholars Akme has collated the papers in this important, fascinating, at times comical, and very Oxford case, and posted them in a special new indexed and linked series. Note Warden Averil Cameron's 'under payment'.Click now for the VERSINDEX or for the first item in the series Dramatis Personae or for The Reading Judgment. |
October 2005: Maglen Corp to concrete green belt |
27/3/85 The Times Bad Marx Diary entries about OUP 'definitions for hire' scam.
21/2/1987 The Times and Oxford Magazine Oxford dons seek sale of OUP: privatization proposal.
27/2/1987 The Times Higher Education Supplement Could Oxford proposal threaten the Freedom of the Press? The privatizing proposal rebuffed. Note Roger Elliott quotes: OUP profits to be ploughed back into scholarly publishing; "charitable status" at risk; funding of University.
16/9/1988 Private Eye 'Bookworm' piece Richard Charkin leaves OUP.
7/10/1988 Bookseller digest of OUP's annual accounts
Oxford maintains profit record.2-3/1989 OUP shock Closure of The Printing House, with the loss of 200 jobs, despite recent investment of £1.8 million. Reports and letters in The Oxford Times and Mail, The Observer, Publishing News, The Times, The Bookseller
7/5/1989 The Sunday Times, The New York Times report, leaders Books for the mullahs*. OUP breaks worldwide embargo of Tehran book fair.
13/10/1989 Bookseller digest of OUP's annual accounts
OUP held back by printing division .11/3/1990 The Observer Platonic labours lost* Pendennis piece by Tim Heald on Malcolm v. Oxford, pre-trial.
23/3/1990 The Times Commitment to publish does not establish contract Law report on Malcolm v. Oxford, post-trial.
25/3/1990 The Observer Macho man among the dons Pendennis piece by Laurence Marks on Richard Charkin and OUP's spat with Margaret Drabble.
3/4/1990 The Times Comment article by Alan Ryan The right to disobey. A political philosopher explains... plus response letters.
6/4/1990 Publishers Weekly (US) Where Was the Contract? Diary piece by Leonore Fleischer on Malcolm v. Oxford, pre-trial.
6/4/1990 The Bookseller OUP 'author' loses fight for publication Report on Malcolm v. Oxford, post-trial.
27/4/1990 The Oxford Times Author to fight on over book News report on Malcolm v. Oxford, post-trial.
11/5/1990 The Bookseller Malcolm v. OUP Letter from Andrew Malcolm - first in a series.
18/5/1990 The Bookseller Malcolm v. OUP Letter from Mark Le Fanu (pp The Society of Authors) - second in series.
27/5/1990 The Observer The old beggars of Oxford make a sorry sight Article by Andrew Stephen on Oxford's fund-raising in USA.
1/6/1990 The Bookseller Malcolm v. OUP Letter from Sir Roger Elliott (pp OUP) - third in series.
8/6/1990 The Bookseller Malcolm v. OUP Letter from Andrew Malcolm - fourth in series.
22/6/1990 The Bookseller Malcolm v. OUP Letter from Mark Le Fanu (pp The Society of Authors) - fifth in series.
19/10/1990 The Bookseller digest of OUP's annual accounts
OUP thriving in all areas.18-21/12/1990 Malcolm wins in Court of Appeal: reports in The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph The Brighton Evening Argus and The Bookseller.
23/12/1990 The Observer A builder's dialogue that silenced OUP* Foreword Article by Laurence Marks on Malcolm v. Oxford.
25/9/1992 The Times Education Supplement Cause celebre* Review of Making Names by R. W. Noble.
18/10/1992 Bookseller digest of OUP's annual accounts
Cost control increases profits for OUP.6/11/1992 The Brighton Evening Argus Never give up* report by Luke Harding on the launch of Making Names.
1/1993* onwards Private Eye 'Bookworm' pieces, 1993 on Malcolm v. Oxford and also Noble v. Oxford, Oxford Times advert, Bookseller (William Boot) piece.
1-6/1993* Elliott retires. Varoius Bookseller and Private Eye items about Lord Otiose's retirement, OUP's search for a new chief executive and the Publishers Association.
10/4/1993 The Spectator Plato meets Kylie Minogue* Review of Making Names by Terence Kealey.
15/11/1993-4/2/1994 The Nygaard correspondence*. Letters to The Times and The Bookseller about the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie's Norwegian publisher, including an attack by AKME's Denis Dugdale on Sir Roger Elliott of OUP and the Publishers' Association.
10/1994
OUP's Annual Report and Accounts abstracts, 1995 (includes figures for 1994).30/1/1995 The Times Academically incorrect. Report and leader on the John Vincent affair.
27/7/1995 OU Gazette OUP's Manhattan walk*. Report of opening of OUP's new New York office (Keith Thomas' first skyscraper) - includes clowns photo.
20/10/1995 Bookseller digest of OUP's annual accounts
Profits slip as OUP says Hola! to Latin America. Also, OUP Report and Accounts abstracts, 1995.9/6/1996 The Times Publisher gets it teetotally wrong. Bizarre report by Catherine Milner. What is it with Oxford, New Zealand and poetry?
2/8/1996 Bookseller digest of OUP's annual accounts
Corby proves problem for OUP. Also OUP's Annual Report and Accounts abstracts, 1997 (includes figures for 1996).OUP's French row
14/4/1997 The Times Oxford returns £350,000 to Nazi's grandson. Report by Ruth Gledhill and David Charter.
16/2/1997 The Sunday Telegraph Save Oxford by privatising it, say dons Article by Jonathan Petre.
21/2/1997 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Dons tell Oxford to go private report by Harriet Swain.
3/10/1997 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Oxbridge turns to Robin Hood report by Harriet Swain.
17/10/1997 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Fees win sighted report by Phil Baty. Oxbridge turns guns on (Dearing) report.
24/10/1997 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Oxbridge gives case for its fees report by Harriet Swain.
31/10/1997 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Oxbridge defiant report by Harriet Swain.
31/10/1997 Bookseller digest of OUP's annual accounts
Record sales year for OUP. Also OUP's Annual Report and Accounts abstracts, 1997.7/11/1997 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Oxbridge stays 'special' report by Harriet Swain.
12/11/1997 The Guardian Oxbridge accused of corruption on subsidies Important report by education editor John Carvel on Sir Christopher Ball's exposure of Oxbridge's Candy-conning, plus leader comment Oxbridge fails the Dearing test and article by Ian Corfied The gold plated spires.
14/11/1997 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Blackstone fudge on college fees report by Harriet Swain. As predicted.
16/11/1997 The Sunday Times Oxbridge accounts reveal assets of £2 billion* Investigation by Jonathan Leake and Zoe Brennan. Leader artcle: Oxbridge cries wolf.
19/11/1997 The Guardian Give us the Money* Bleat for Oxford's government funding by Alan Ryan, Warden of New College.
21/11/1997 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Nexus proposes private Oxbridge report by Phil Baty. To stick, scrap or juggle? composite article by Harriet Swain, including Lawyers in for a field day, Charge of the bright brigade (history of Oxbridge's fee-charging) and comparison of Oxford with Liverpoool. Leader article: Fees, favour and formulae.
23/11/1997 The Sunday Times and Observer Blair spares Oxbridge colleges report by Andrew Grice and Michael Prescott. Blair backs down over Oxbridge fees report by Judith Judd.
28/11/1997 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Oxbridge Umbrage letter from Alan Ryan.
12/12/1997 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Oxbridge eyes deal on access report by Harriet Swain.
(1997) The Times Oxbridge dons: a crash course in change. An extract from an article by Noel Annan (in turn from his book The Dons, HarperCollins), reviewing the squeeze on Oxbridge's finances.
6/8/1998 Bookseller digest of OUP's annual accounts (Lead story)
OUP records a "very disappointing" year. Also OUP's Annual Report and Accounts abstracts, 1998.21/11/1998 The Times Anger over dead poets society news report by Dalya Alberge.
24/11/1998 The Guardian Neither rhyme nor reason news report by Robert Potts.
25/11/1998 The Times Beware the Philistines of publishing comment by James Fenton, Oxford Professor of poetry.< Also To Those who say poems don't pay: letters by Michael Holroyd et al. (Royal Society for Literature), Fiona Pitt-Kethley and Robin Chichester-Clark (Arvon Foundation).
26/11/1998 The Guardian Oxford dons have done poetry a disservice: letters from "outraged OUP poetry staffer" and Richard Caddel.
27/11/1998 The Independent Oxford's poets fall foul of the bottom line In-depth news report by John Walsh.
27/11/1998 The Times publishing poetry: letters by Anselm Kuhn and Alan Brownjohn (The Poetry Society).
27/11/1998 The Times Literary Supplement Oxford's poetry list: letter by Janet Montefiore. Also NB piece re. the poets' fatal form letter.
28/11/1998 The Telegraph Poetic Injustice report by Michael Smith.
1/12/1998 The Independent There's no poetry in bookselling comment by Terence Blacker.
1/12/1998 The Guardian Prosaic business of putting price on poetry news report by Dan Glaister.
2/12/1998 The Guardian Leader: Downsizing poets Oxford's ode to Philistinism.
2/12/1998 The Times publishing poetry: letter by Oxford English dons Nigel Smith and Nicholas Shrimpton.
4/12/1998 The Guardian Don't abandon us now: collective letter from Sean O'Brien and others. Also letter from Rachel Billington (PEN).
4/12/1998 The Times Literary Supplement Oxford's poetry list: collective letter by Hermione Lee et al. . Also NB piece.
4/12/1998 Oxford Magazine Vandalism Article by Jon Stallworthy, Oxford Professor of English, former OUP Publisher and founder of Oxford's modern poetry list (with photo).
8/12/1998 The Times publishing poetry: letter by the Bishop of Basingstoke.
11/12/1998 The Times Literary Supplement Oxford's poetry list: letter by Anthony Storr.
16/12/1998 The Times Verse reverse diary piece.
18/12/1998 The Times Literary Supplement Oxford's poetry list: letter by Peter Green.
25/12/1998 The Times Literary Supplement NB piece.
8/1/1999 The Times Literary Supplement Oxford's poetry list seen from abroad: letter by Alastair Niven.
14/1/1999 House of Lords debate, Hansard, Column 276.
22/1/1999 The Times Literary Supplement NB piece re. closure of Clarendon imprint.
29/1/1999 The Times Literary Supplement Oxford's poetry list: letter by Brian Martin. Also NB piece.
30/1/1999 The Daily Telegraph Peterborough and Newman Noggs pieces re. Alan Howarth at Freud cafe.
3/2/1999 MSF (OUP) Oxford Union Group committee statement (Freud Cafe brochure).
4/2/1999 The Times OUP attacked for erosion of standards Speech by Arts Minister Alan Howarth, news report by Dalya Alberge.
4/2/1999 The Independent Minister attacks dons as 'barbaric' Speech by Arts Minister Alan Howarth, news report by David Lister.
4/2/1999 The Guardian Minister steps into Oxford poetry list row Speech by Arts Minister Alan Howarth, news report by Dan Glaister.
5/2/1999The Times Literary Supplement The Purpose and the Cost (+ photo). A defence of the poetry-axing by OUP Finance Committee chairman Sir Keith Thomas. Arguably this should be 'Exhibit A' in the event of a proper hearing (by a court, or by the Charity or Inland Revenue Commissioners) to review OUP's tax-exemption. Copyright permission for AKME's reproduction of the article was granted by the TLS but refused by Thomas, on the grounds that "it is already in the public domain and easily available to all interested persons". Well exactly, so it is. - A.M.
9/2/1999 The Times Ethos and standards of the OUP: letters by Henry Reece, OUP Chief Executive, Paul Helm, Henry Hardy, Andrew Malcolm.
11/2/1999 The Times OUP music and poetry: letter by Dr Margaret Bent about Oxford's axed music list.
12/2/1999 Oxford Magazine Minding Our Own Business Article by Jon Stallworthy, Oxford Professor of English, former OUP Publisher and founder of Oxford's modern poetry list (with photo).
12/2/1999 The Times Poetry cast loose on open market: letters by Prof. Jon Stallworthy and Adrian Bishop.
12/2/1999 The Times Literary Supplement Oxford's publishing policy letters by Charles Martindale and Henry Hardy.
12/2/1999 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Mammon's Imprint* comment by Oxford Eng. Lit. Professor Valentine Cunningham, including THES leader comment and launch of on-line 'soapbox' debate on university presses' tax-exemption. Also reports: OUP fights corner in poetry row* by Kam Patel (also includes figures for Cambridge University Press) and US presses enjoy tax freedom*.
18/2/1999 The Times Reprieve likely for OUP poetry news report by Dalya Alberge.
19/2/1999 The Times OUP's scholarly record: letter by Richard Charkin. Also diary piece: Keith Thomas's servants.
19/2/1999 The Times Literary Supplement Oxford's publishing policy letters by Bridget Martyn about OUP's axed encyclopaedia department, Jamie McKendrick, Roderick Beaton, Michael Howard.
27/2/1999 The Daily Telegraph Peterborough piece: OUP spins a positive line on lost poets.
07/3/1999 The Observer 'Oxford poets' saved.
07/3/1999 The Sunday Times Poetry back.
08/3/1999 The Times Oxford's dead poets' society is resurrected (re. sale to Carcanet) News report by Robin Young.
12/3/1999 The Times Literary Supplement Oxford's poetry list: letter by Bridget Martyn. Also NB piece.
14/3/1999 The Sunday Times Books Section diary piece: horses bolted.
19/3/1999 The Times Literary Supplement NB piece.
2/4/1999 The Times Literary Supplement The War for Jericho: why the present constitution of the OUP cannot work. Commentary article by Andrew Malcolm (plus annotations) - a response to The Purpose and the Cost by Sir Keith Thomas, TLS, 5/2/99.
9/4/1999 The Times Literary Supplement letter by Patrick Thomas (see post-scripts).
23/4/1999 Oxford Magazine Counting the Cost Article by Jon Stallworthy, Oxford Professor of English, former OUP Publisher and founder of Oxford's modern poetry list (with photo).
17/7/1999 The Times OUP to invest £87 million in university* Business section news story by Jason Nisse. Also Business News leader comment.
18/7/1999 The Sunday Times Books section diary Congratulations to OUP poets Jane Dracott and Jo Shapcott.
19/7/1999 The Times OUP's profits: letter by Vivien Noakes.
13/8/1999 Bookseller digest of OUP's annual accounts
OUP returns to form in a tough market. Also OUP's Annual Report and Accounts abstracts, 1999.16/8/1999 The Times Employers give Oxford the blues* report by Mark Henderson, including Tumbling spires: Oxford's fall from grace with employers and Unwieldy Oxford regime blamed for setbacks report by John O'Leary.
7/10/1999 The Times Top award for discarded poet news report by Dalya Alberge (includes photo). Jo Shapcott wins the Forward poetry prize.
5/11/1999 The Oxford Times lead story OUP denies breach of charity rules* report by Reg Little on OUP's tax-exemption, Malcolm's The Remedy.
11/11/1999 Oxford Student OUP accused of tax offence report by Ike Nwafor on OUP's tax-exemption, Malcolm's The Remedy.
12/11/1999 Cherwell lead story Cooking the books? report by Caroline Duffy on OUP's tax-exemption, Malcolm's The Remedy.
12/11/1999 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) The dead (and live) poets' society comment on Oxford's poetics by Oxford Eng. Lit. Professor Valentine Cunningham (photo of Paul Muldoon, Oxford's new Professor of Poetry).
2/1/2000 The Sunday Telegraph The Literary Life (Books Diary) piece by Mark Sanderson.
12/2/2000 The Spectator It's time to scrap The Millennium Don. Splendid attack on Oxford's teaching ethos, regime and staff by three of its undergraduates, Bijan Omrani, George Baily and Catharine Gulick. See also Unfinished Business Response article by Andrew Malcolm submitted to The Spectator but unpublished.
13/2/2000 Sunday Telegraph Blair backs fees rise to create elite universities. Report by Martin Bentham, Education Correspondent on Tony Blair's (and Alan Ryan's) support for elite 'top-up' fees.
18/2/2000 Cherwell Why top-ups are terrible. Leader article condemning Alan Ryan's support for student top-up fees and privatisation of Oxford.
25/2/2000 Cherwell OUP profit row report by Ruta Nimkar on OUP's tax-exemption, Malcolm's The Remedy: OUP's 1978 conditional 'agreement with the Inland Revenue' acknowledged by Oxford; 'generous capital transfer' of £60 million by OUP to the Millennium Buildings Project (includes comments and research by A.M. and link to Oxford website for further information).
25/2/2000 Cherwell Fee story fury at New. New College JCR motion attacks Alan Ryan.
OXFORD IN INDIA: 1. THE ADVANI TAMASHA
OXFORD IN INDIA: 2. THE HISTORY TAMASHA
OXFORD IN INDIA: 3. THE TAX TAMASHA
OXFORD IN AUSTRALIA: MR. OXFORD UNIVERSITY
22/3/2000 Sydney Morning Herald A cybersquatter named Oxford.
1/4/2000 www.dninvestors.com item (with link) Cybersquatter avoids eviction.
6/4/2000 Oxford University Libraries (Bodley) Newsletter No. 23 Oxford's legal proceedings.
24/3/2000 Evening Standard diary piece attacking OUP's plummeting (US) editorial standards.
18/5/2000 The Times Front page lead story by Damian Whitworth and Tim Hames, plus page 18 story and leader comment President Clinton dreams of a return to Oxford's spires. Alan Ryan heads The Rothermere Institute's DIM-squad wooing of the great philanderer-statesman (includes link to Ryan's own webshite).
23/5/2000 Guardian (Higher) Education supplement Is small still beautiful? Donald Macleod asks about the future of Oxford's collegiate system (concerns a forthcoming book and includes a quote from Edward Gibbon).
MAY 2000: THE LAURA SPENCE AFFAIR The story of a bright Tyneside medical student who was rejected by Magdalen College, Oxford, but then won a scholarship to study at Harvard. The incident, attacked by Gordon Brown as a scandalous example of Oxford elitism, generated so many thousands of articles, that rather than include them in this archive, Akme suggests instead doing a separate Google search, entering simply 'Laura Spence'. Two articles of particular Akme interest are included below.
24-29/5/2000 The Guardian (G2) Oxford Blues Article by Alan Ryan on the Laura Spence affair, including angry letters provoked by his bad grammar, style and logic, plus further responses from Keith Thomas and Ryan.
26/5/2000 BBC news online Leak fuels Oxford admissions row. Leaked story of notes made by Laura Spence's interviewer.
28/5/2000 The Sunday Telegraph It is Blair who really dislikes Oxford commentary on the Laura Spence affair by Matthew d'Ancona.
25/6/2000 The Oxford Magazine Admissions: Changing our ways? Alan Ryan squares Oxford's circle.
27/6/2000 The Daily Telegraph Don argues for overhaul of Oxford admissions and Successful trial of the 'culture free' intelligence test. Two reports by Education Editor John Clare. More on Oxford's metric psycho.
7/7/2000 The Times University chiefs want students to pay £12,000 Report by David Charter on the Russell Group of 19 UK universities' (including Oxford and Cambridge) plans to take the first steps towards privatisation; includes a link to the full text of the Russell Group's study document.
18/8/2000 The Bookseller CUP's turnover hits £100m Report by Liz Bury; growth attributed to Internet sales.
22/9/2000 Private Eye, Bookworm piece. OUP to lose its Indian tax exemption? re. Malcolm's involvement in the story (see above) + history.
10/00
OUP's Annual Report and Accounts abstracts, 2000. Includes entry for £62 million supposed 'donation' to the University and notes.November 2000: John Kay's resignation from Oxford's Said Business School
3/10/2000 EEC law report Regina v. HM Treasury ex parte: Is Cambridge secretly going private?
INDIA IN OXFORD: THE CHAIR TAMASHA
11/11/2000 The Times Authors Lose Out as Book Chain Increases Cut. News report by Dalya Alberge on latest Waterstones greed.
18-27/11/2000 The Times Authors' Rights Sparked by above development, letters from Doctor Vivien Noakes, Professor Emeritus Luke Herrmann and Mr Francis Bennion on OUP's derisory royalties.
12/2000 - 3/2001* The Gloucestershire Echo CORPUS CHRISTI'S BROTHEL Hilarious, late-broken (9/04) reports on Corpus' immoral earnings, including photo-story of 'Operation Greyhound'.
5/1/2001 The Bookseller OUP and CUP in discounts row Lead news report by Richard Lewis, plus William Boot comment, (19/1). Beyond avarice.
8/2/2001 Private Eye Intifada 'Bookworm' piece on Oxford's scandalous encyclopaedia entry, and on Malcolm, "long-time scourge".
9/3/2001 Private Eye OUP India loses charity status 'Bookworm' piece puffs www.akme, warns of a fresh look at OUP's tax in UK & US.
16/3/2001 The Bookseller OUP India forced to pay back tax News report by Liz Bury - UK tax now in question.
18/3/2001 The Sunday Telegraph Wafic Said interviewed by Andrew Alderson "Do I deserve to be labelled a Syrian terrorist?" Unsavoury background behind Oxford's Said Business School.
March 2001: THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY THEME-PARK ROW, aka 'GREATGATE'
9/3 The Oxford Times Bodleian plan faces tough oppositionNews report.
16/3 The Oxford Times Staff condemn 'cynical' plan for Bodleian News report and letters.
18/3 The ObserverAnger over plan to turn Bodleian into 'theme-park'* News feature by Vanessa Thorpe.
This latest vandalism, apart from anything else, finally gives the lie to OUP's trumpeted grand £30 million Bodley 'donation' of July 1999 (see The Times, 17/7/99, Oxford Times, 30/3 and related cuttings). - A. M.
21/3/2001 The Oxford Mail OUP facing 'huge' tax bill* Report by Maggie Hartford (includes Scotter-Mainprize puff for www.akme).
26/3/2001 The New Statesman How we let more mean worse Alan Ryan argues that British higher education has betrayed egalitarian football. See also Robert Leach's response.
30/3/2001 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Any final say in war of words?* Review of The Remedy by... Henry Hardy (!) Foot & Mouth out of control - official.
30/3/2001 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Stalin had to to die too By irresistible coincidence, in the same issue another illiterate rant from Alan Ryan, this time against - yes - the QAA (university inspectorate). Plus ca change. See also University watchdog quits over teaching standards, The Times & Sunday Times, 22 & 26/8/2001 on John Randall's resignation from the QAA.
30/3/2001 The Oxford Times A Message from India*. Splendid 'in-depth' report by Maggie Hartford (includes the University's admission that OUP's 'donations' of 1999 were bogus).
6/4/2001 The Oxford Times Disturbing philological flounderings*. Juice letter from Andrew Malcolm.
9/4/2001 The New Statesman This ex-polytechnic adds more value than Oxbridge Entertaining response by Robert Leach to Alan Ryan's own goal.
13/4/2001 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Words fail in war of words Letters page leads from Giles Gordon and Alan Ryan - the weakest link!
20/4/2001 Private Eye Hardy's review of The Remedy 'Bookworm' piece suggests saga has come to a full stop. Met men say exclamation marks to follow.
20/4/2001 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Changing minds Letter from Henry Hardy accuses Alan Ryan of lying.
26/4/2001 Calcutta Grovel OUP India found to be in contempt of court, controversial books withdrawn, ceo Manzar Khan personally apologises to Bengal bench. Apology "not accepted". Court retires for consideration.
18/5/2001 Private Eye Mystery editor mystery. Bookworm's "required reading".
20/5-1/10/2001Times, Sunday Times reports and pix The Clintons in Oxford: Alan Ryan caught with hands up Bill's armpits in purple drape melee. Mars of zero pedagogic value says cool-milk Chelsea babe rollerskating on Balliol limousine.
10/7/2001 The Guardian report by Helena Smith Falling behind US. Outgoing president of Harvard Neil Rudenstine rants about Oxbridge 'nightmare' (includes pic).
13/7/2001 Daily Telegraph Peterborough piece by Sam Leith Thesaurus author upset, cross, angry, peeved The Tergiversators strike again: OUP shafts master lexicographer.
13&20/7/2001 The Times Higher (Education Supplement)Cambridge is worth 170 Guildhalls. Major investigation of UK universities' assets, attack on Oxbridge disparity.
14/7/2001 Spectator article by Robert Stevens, recently retired as Master of Pembroke College Eviscerating Oxford. Attack on New Labour HE policy and All Souls wooden ducks. Includes spin-off report by John O'Leary in The Times, 13/7/01 with top-ten table of UK universities' assets.
17/7/2001 The Times article by Richard Morrison Oxbridge, the home of slow learners. Woe-upon-woe attack on Oxbridge's antique collegiate system.
22&26/8/2001 The Times & Sunday Times report by John O'Leary, interview with Jenny Shields University watchdog quits over teaching standards. John Randall's resignation from the QAA, Oxbridge's refusal of scrutiny. Includes Universities have failed the reality test.
27/9/2001 The Times Bursar predicts Oxford top-up fees. Paltreyman at it again.
28/9/2001 Bookseller digest of OUP's annual accounts
Reece drives OUP growth. OUP's Annual Report 2001. Includes Blackstone exodus about OUP takeover of law publisher and consequent lay-offs.20/11/2001 The Guardian Oxbridge colleges called to account report by David Walker on Cabinet Office (Performance and Innovation Unit) investigation into the Oxbridge colleges' charitable status.
29/11/2001 Accountancy Age journal article by David Walker The corridors of power... Oxbridge dons are well-connected and would make their influence felt in high places...
19/12/2001 The Times Oxford donor quits as son fails to win place. Front-page report by David Charter, Oxford degrees bribery exposed.
20/12/2001 The Times Why money cannot - and should not - buy a place at Oxford. Holier-than-thou claptrap from the Honourable Michael Beloff QC, President of Trickery College.
22/12/2001&ff The Times The donor and admissions dilemma for universities. Letters from Philip Keevil (the ex-donor) and others.
22/12/2001 The Times Donations can buy an Oxford place, says Professor. Report by Glen Owen and Andrew Sutton: Valentine Cunningham talks straight bat.
30/1/2002 The Times Big mistake. Item about OUP thesaurus bungle.
10/3/2002 The Sunday Times Culture Section The DIM Kamasutra. OUP follows Malcolm's suggestion and enters the pornography trade. Also, new 'Oxford Blue' project.
22/2/2002 The Times Higher Education Supplement, 'Whistleblowers' article on Alan Ryan's 13/4/01 breach of contract, the latest round in Malcolm v. Oxford etc.
24/3/2002 The Sunday Times Revealed: degrees for sale at Oxford college*. Sensational front-page report by Jonathan Calvert, plus detailed inside page Money talks at Oxford, with phone transcripts and leader article Oxford's begging bowl etc.
25/3/2002 The Times Academics resign over 'bribe' for Oxford place*. Report by Sam Lister, plus responses, Pembroke facts, and Ivy facade hides cash shortage.
25/3/2002 The Guardian Oxford fellows resign after bribery claims. Report by Will Woodward and Rebecca Allison.
26/3/2002 The Times Oxford pledges to root out scandal of cash for places. Report by Andrew Pierce.
29/3/2002 The Times Higher Education Supplement Is it really wicked if it works?*. Masterful contribution to the Pembroke debate from exact thinker Alan Ryan, Warden of New College.
31/3/2002 The Sunday Times Why Oxford is going begging. Full-page Focus investigation by John Elliott and Rosie Waterhouse.
31/3/2002 The Sunday Times Lessons from America. Article on the Ivy League colleges by David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald.
29-31/3/2002 The Times & Sunday Times Hackles rise*. Various letters on the Pembroke scandal.
21/12/2001-24/8/2002 The Observer & Guardian Oxford cons, Bully for Beloff, Favoured Friends. Three delicious pieces by Richard Ingrams on The Philip Keevil affair, the Pembroke scandal, The Honourable Michael Beloff QC and the Blairs' son Euan, plus report on the latter's eventual choice of Bristol.
26/4/2002 The Times Higher Education Supplement, Critic offers Oxford his latest work of friction*, news report by Phil Baty.
26/4/2002 The Oxford Times Bookshop opened in anger*, news report by Reg Little.
30/4/2002 The Guardian G2 education section (higher browsing) The Third Degree*.
2/5/2002 The Oxford Student, Vendetta on the Broad*.
2/5/2002 Oxford Star, New chapter in feud opens*.
3/5/2002 Cherwell Centre for dissent on Broad Street* report by Alex Fak.
10/5/2002 Publishing News The strangest bookshop I've ever seen. Diary piece by David Blow on 'Akeme Expression' (sic).
11/5/2002 South China Morning Post Philosopher having fun with latest a dig at Establishment. Report on Akme Expression in education supplement.
17/5/2002 Private Eye Bookworm column.
30/5/2002 Oxford Student, Mourning becomes electron*, rave review of Making Names by Arina Patrikova: "Electra remains one of the most powerful statements of the human condition written in the past century."
31/5/2002 The Times Higher Education Supplement Ryan quits as 'ill-paid' Oxford don* - Ryan's shock departure for USA, amazing rant*, photo, plus letters (7/6).
31/5/2002 The Guardian Report by Polly Curtis Widening access policy dismissed as 'pipe dream'. The LibDems get realistic.
7/6/2002 Cherwell, New Warden quits town, report by Jonas Twitchen links Ryan's departure with Malcolm case. Malcolm: "It's just a splendid coincidence."
13-18/6/2002 The things people say*. More extraordinary fall-out quotes, including Ryan's departure puff in The Independent, 13/6/02, "Sell off OUP" suggestion made by New College Bursar David Palfreyman in The Oxford Magazine, 14/6/02 and a delicious Beloff* boast from a profile in The Guardian, 18/6/02.
21/6/2002 The Oxford Times.
ANDREW'S LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS* Full-page finale. Superb 'Our World' article by Reg Little.25/6/2002 The Guardian G2 education section (higher browsing) The Third Degree on the Akme Ball.
23/8/2002 The Guardian Ros Taylor reports on special coaching for Oxbridge applicants Money talks .
Sept/Oct 2002 Change, 'Potpourri' Author Pummels Oxford*. Excellent summary by Harold Orlans, homing in on OUP Inc's tax.
Sept/Oct 2002* The Philosophers' Magazine MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE*. Major 2-page article by Natasha Gilbert, featuring yet more Ryan/Charkin/Hardy fun. Plus link to the TPM website.
10/10 The Oxford Student Borders on Madness*.
11/10 The Oxford Times front page Controversial author is ousted by police after bookshop sit-in* (plus listing, 4/10).
11/10 The Oxford Mail front page plus Leader comment Author's talk ends in chaos - Stranger than fiction*.
12/10 The Daily Telegraph (page 13) Squad cars break up bookshop soiree*. Liz Lightfoot reports on the "Pinteresque drama", with 4 photos.
15/10 The Brighton Evening Argus Writer books in for unsavoury episode*. Barbara Davidson reports on OUP's tax-exemption.
At this point, www.akme mysteriously became jammed, with any attempt to edit upload files, texts or images, resulting in their erasure. Just in time, U.S. Akme agent Michael Sayers established a Link to a mirror Akme site (www.geocities.com/mjsayers/BORDERS_ON_THE_INSANE), which visitors are advised to keep bookmarked. In February 2004 a change of service provider restored control of/to www.akme.
10/11/2002 The Independent on Sunday Roy Jenkins gave Tony Blair Idea of Top-up Fees; also includes The Oxford Student articles: Jenkins behind fees, 14/11/02 and Our Chancellor, the villain Jenkins faces no-confidence vote, 28/11/02.
15/11/2002 The Guardian Report by Will Woodward Top-up fees would hit poorer students, Cambridge warns .
20/11/2002 The Guardian Report by Patrick Wintour Chancellor at odds with Blair over top-up fees.
21/11/2002 The Oxford Student College charity status reform; possible effects of the government report on charity law proposals (Click for extracts and recommendations).
30/12/2002 The Independent From beneath the duvet. Splendid puff by Terence Blacker (columnist of the week) for Malcolm's talk at Borders, Charing Cross Road, 7.00 pm 30th January 2003.
6/1/2003 The Witney & West Oxfordshire Gazette OUP second on list of top publishers. Interesting report featuring reference to OUP's dodgy tax status. Malcolm credited with OUP's recent 'donations' from 'the surplus'.
17/1/2003 The Oxford Times and Oxford Mail Bookshop gives a say to author. Front page puff, plus listing.
22/1/2003 The Guardian Oxford and Cambridge offered deal to take more state pupils. Government wants universities' individual colleges to lose control of admissions. Interesting article by Will Woodward.
24/1/2003* Cherwell Akme allowed expression report by Amanda Walsh, plus photo.
29/1/2003 Brighton Evening Argus Author to finish what he started news report.
7/2/2003* Private Eye 'Bookworm' report Through gritted teeth. The police hold back.
January - March 2003: Carry on Chancellor
7/1/03 onwards A linked series of articles on Oxford's search for a successor to Woy Jenkins; Alan Ryan is right behind Bill Clinton (where else would he be?) - the dry cleaners' choice. A Tough Act to Follow by Donald Macleod, 7/1; Position Vacant by Rodrigo Davies, 8/1; Clinton the Wrong Man for Oxford by Catherine Bennett, 9/1; Students back Clinton by Rodrigo Davies, 16/1; Clinton fights shy by Will Woodward and Sarah Hall, 17/1; Open to First Woman? by Rodrigo Davies, 17/1; How to become Chancellor by Will Woodward, 17/1; Chancellorship election rules (plus links for nomination forms etc.) OU Gazette, 23/1; Oxford race wide open The Times Higher (Education Supplement), 31/1.
6/2/2003 The Oxford Student Loon attack news report.
7/2/2003* The Oxford Times First candidate steps forward news report by Reg Little.
7/2/2003* Cherwell Chancellor choice "lacklustre", report by Sophie Colombeau and Rowena Mason, plus photo.
8/2/2003* The Brighton Argus Author courts top uni post news report by Barbara Davidson.
11/2/2003* The Guardian Hands-on reformer Higher browsing, The third degree, G2.
11/2/2003 The Guardian Report by Anne Perkins Universities to levy fees before access deal.
13/2/2003 The Oxford Student Stay tuned... Malcolm the serious contender." Editorial and news report by Tamara Cohen.
25/2/2003* The Guardian G2 Higher browsing, The third degree charcanery 1.
26/2/2003* The Guardian G2 Higher browsing, The third degree charcanery 2 .
4/3/2003 The Guardian Feisty article by David Walker Oxbridge Identity Crisis.
6/3/2003 The Oxford Student news report charcanery 3.
7/3/2003* Cherwell news report charcanery 4.
March 2003 The Sunday Telegraph, Oxford Student, Cherwell Oriel Flogs First Folio. Reports on Oriel's £3.5 million Shakespeare sale, plus update in The Art Newspaper on the future of Paul Getty's collection.
24/3/2003 The Guardian Report of Mike Woodin's brave but doomed resolution before Oxford's Congregation Oxford set for top-up showdown. R.I.P.
24/4/2003 The Independent Article by Joel Budd on the effects on the universities of the stockmarket slump. The bear market takes its toll. Alan Ryan foresees life becoming very hard indeed.
23/5/2003 Cherwell Oxford 'must go private'. Report by Aled George on Prof Nick Trefethen's Oxford Magazine article.
18/6/2003 The Guardian New Zealander could make history at Oxford. Staff report on the nomination of John Hood as Oxford's next vice-chancellor.
6/6/2003 The Times Literary Supplement Abolish state schools. Contrabuffoonist book review by Alan Ryan of How not to be a hypocrite by Adam Swift.
12/6/2003 The Oxford Student State of schools. Spin-off report from above by Vishesh Srivastava.
20/6/2003 The Guardian The humble bridge builder. David Cohen interviews John Hood.
15/7/2003 The Times Oxbridge told: shape up or lose freedom. Front page lead story by Education Editor Tony Halpin. Treasury adviser Richard Lambert warns of 'outside intervention' (see also 5/12/2003, below).
August 2003: A Palpable Hit?
9/8/2003* The Oxford Mail OUP splashes out £60m to redevelop Infirmary Tax criticism prompts donation to university. News report by Maggie Hartford.
15/8/2003* The Oxford Times Press promises £12m-a-year donation. News report by Maggie Hartford (amended version of preceding article, with more detail).
30/8/2003 The Guardian Resentment. Article by Joel Rickett of The Bookseller magazine: OUP's tax status is questioned for the first time in a national newspaper.
23/9/2003 The Guardian Article by Steven Schwartz How should students be selected in order to give everyone a fair chance?.
26/9/2003* The Times Higher Education Supplement Oxford college in survival fight. Front-page & pp 8&9 Whistleblowers investigation by Claire Sanders into affairs at Harris Manchester, Oxford. Carpet College's rug pulled?
9/10/2003* Cherwell What the Butler said.... Report by Zoe Flood on Lord Butler's private vision.
10/2003 OUP's Annual Report and Accounts abstracts, 2002/3. Over £200 million illegally donated since publication of The Remedy.
13/10/2003 IEE bulletin (The Times) Oxford: we may take the university private . Alan Ryan envisions more ballrooms, bigger jacuzzis.
17/10/2003 The Times Higher Education Supplement Oxford Mulls private future. Report by Phil Baty on Vice-Channcellor Colin Lucas's annual oration.
17/10/2003* Cherwell Dons call for privatisation . Report by Aled George and Sylvia Westall. Lord Butler and co. in the means testing van.
31/10/2003* The Times Higher Education Supplement Alumni call for visitor to allay finance fears. Whistleblowers follow-up report by Phil Baty on Harris Manchester College.
15/12/2003 The Times Oxbridge gets three-year deadline for reform. Article by Education Editor Tony Halpin; The Lambert Report's main points. Also Tuition fee concession costed
31/12/2003 The Guardian Oxbridge dismisses 'wild card' access proposals. Schwartz rebuffed.
5/1/2004 The Times Online Oxbridge transforms bursars into businessmen . Report by Glen Owen.
10/1/2004* The Oxford Mail Dons hope to float passengers' boats Comic report on the launching of the Dimtanic.
16/1/2004 Varsity Oxbridge's other-worldly bursars . Report by Gabriella Jozwiak.
19/1/2004 The Times Online Oxford rent rise plan could cost students £40,000. Report by Glen Owen.
22/1/2004 The Economist Who pays for studies?. Colourful article (uncredited) advocating the privatisation (of course) of Oxbridge.
22/1/2004 Oxford Student The bursars' outrage . Report by Anna Maybank of university's response.
4/2/2004 Business Week Britain's Universities Go Begging. Article by Beth Carney on Oxford's pleas for cash from alumni.
13/2/2004 The Times Higher Education Supplement Think-tank puts £63,000 price tag on Oxford degree. Report by Phil Baty on David Palfreyman's latest challenge.
15/2/2004 The Independent Top-up fees at Oxford could reach £10,000. News story by Nicholas Pyke and Sarah Cassidy.
12/2/2004 The Times Higher Education Supplement Oxford pins fortunes on postgraduates. Report by Phil Baty.
17/2/2004* The Oxford Mail £10,500 top-up fee frightens students. Report by Philip Seton-Anderson.
March 2004: Control of www.akme restored. Akme posts Oxford college accounts 2001/02
16/3/2004* The Oxford Mail Blair junior set for St Anne's Tony Blair's son Nicky heading for Oxford.
23/3/2004 The Guardian Report by Lucy Ward Oxford revives tests to select brightest pupils .
23/3/2004 The Guardian Report by Lucy Ward on Lady Margaret Hall Elite college strives to widen access.
28/3/2004 The Sunday Times Cambridge college matches Man Utd in wealth league. Report by Jonathan Leake and David Robertson. Oxbridge colleges have assets of at least £4 billion, including response letter by Andrew Malcolm 4/4/2004, Unsporting Oxbridge.
20/4/2004* The Oxford Mail Oxford students pay above the odds room rents Report by Victoria Clark.
7/5/2004 The Times Higher Education Supplement Oxford's future vision could upset colleges. Report by Tony Tysome and Paul Hill on Oxford's continuing "seven centuries of mystery" tour and Cambridge's expansion.
8/5/2004 The Independent Call me snooty. Comment article by Howard Jacobson on Cambridge college snobbery, aka Ivy Envy.
19/6/2004 Oxford Students Union Bulletin Bursars Running Scared . Anti-rent-rise demonstration planned, university meeting cancelled, plus link to rent-rise report and OUSU response.
AKME EXPRESSION'S BUSINESS RATES 1
25/6/2004 The Oxford Times Comic chapter backfires.
July 2004: OXFORD COLLEGE ACCOUNTS PUBLISHED "FOR FIRST TIME"
7/7/2004* The Financial Times Nearly half Oxford colleges in the red report by Miranda Green, with table.
7/7/2004 The Guardian Nearly half of Oxford's colleges in the red report by Donald MacLeod, with table.
8/7/2004* The Times Bursars blamed for debt crisis at Oxford colleges report by Richard Lofthouse and Alexandra Blair, with table.
8/7/2004* The Guardian Oxford colleges reveal their wealth report by Sandra Laville, with table. Mentions "a vast, out-of-print book".
8/7/2004 The Daily Telegraph Oxford colleges reveal spending power report by Liz Lightfoot.
8/7/2004 The Oxford Mail Colleges' blues over books being in red report by Chris Koenig, with list.
9/7/2004* The Oxford Times Colleges' accounts in the red report by Chris Koenig, with list.
9/7/2004* The Times Higher Education Supplement Whelk-stall wincer. Alan Ryan article about Harvard Institute's lawsuit.
10/7/2004 The Times Online Hems and Haws. Report by Angela Jameson on Oxford bursars and Corpus Christi's brothel. See also Gloucestershire Echo reports.
16/7/2004 The Times Higher Education Supplement Club together to get more cash, Oxford colleges told. Report by Tony Tysome.
AKME EXPRESSION'S BUSINESS RATES 2
16/7/2004 The Oxford Times Council coughs up .
23/7/2004* The Times Higher Education Supplement Data Act overturns top table of colleges. Oxford's Norrington league table revealed as a fraud; Beloff scores own goal. Report by Phil Baty.
8/2004* OUP's Annual Report and Accounts abstracts, 2003/4. Mad Cash Cow Disease Spreads, plus Akme's Charitable Paragraph of the Year Award. Click for the Complete Report or for an Abridged Version.
6/8/2004 The Oxford Mail University denies 'fix' report by Monica Sloan. Medic admissions: Oxford's class debate rages on.
29/8/2004 The Guardian Report by Donald MacLeod Schwartz calls for free market in higher education.
1/10/2004* The Times Higher Education Supplement UNHAPPY RETURNS AT OXFORD. Banzai! Akme's posting of Oxford's accounts and Scout's Overview of them well reported, plus the bursars' codswallop reactions. Five-star piece by Tony Tysome.
2/10/2004 The Oxford Mail Colleges criticise claims. Spin-off from THES on Scout's Overview.
4/10/2004 The Times Higher (Education Supplement). Unpublished, fish-stinking letter from Andrew Malcolm.
October 2004: TANKS ON THE LAWNS
6-8/10/2004 Amazing valedictory orations by Michael Beloff and Colin Lucas. Paramountcy, pejorative penumbra, tractor shortages, institutional classism, Arsenal footballers, seasonal mantra, bog-standard comprehensives, Mickey Mouse degrees, archaic snobbery, finishing schools, polishing minds, downgraded Shakespeare, raw intelligence, they're all here, plus links to the inherent Vice-Chancellors' orations: The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent.
7/10/2004 The Oxford Student Broad Street crash. Report by Matt Trueman on the college accounts, Akme's Autumn posting and Scout's Overview.
7/10/2004 The Independent Pandora piece Beloff heads for bar. He's not the only one.
8/10/2004* The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Undermining Oxford Report by Tony Tysome featuring strange akmesque comments from incoming Vice-Chancer John Hood. Anyone know the Maori for creepy or for privatised university?
8/10/2004 The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, Independent. Unpublished, aromatherapeutic letter from Andrew Malcolm.
10/10/2004 The Sunday Telegraph Oxford to go private within 5 years? Report by Julie Henry and Chris Hastings.
10/10/2004 The Sunday Times Review Hoogstraten's hireling* Jasper Gerard interviews Michael Beloff, plus Hoogstraten link.
10/10/2004 The Observer Bully for Oxford Will Hutton returns fire.
14/10/2004 The Times Patten's tank Oxford's Chancellor interviewed by Anthony Browne.
14/10/2004 Minister Kim Howells' speech on university admissions. The Government retreats on quotas, of course.
14/10/2004 The Oxford Student Entertaining rant about Oxford 'city' by Ian Burrow Gown Town.
14&15/10/2004 The Guardian, Times, Independent combined reports of Kim Howells' speech University, no tanks.
15/10/2004* The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Hood's horizzzzon Profile by Tony Tysome of incoming, million-to-one Vice-Chancer John Hood.
15/10/2004* The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Tea party on Isis Soapbox article by Anthony Smith, President of Magdalen.
15/10/2004 Cherwell Privatisation slammed Students Union responds to Beloff etc.
15&16/10/2004* The Guardian, Times Education Supplement, Dfes, Times Harris, Manchester combined reports of the appointment of Sir Martin Offtoffprof, plus CV, link to interesting speech and Times response letters.
23/10/2004 The Guardian Camburgers. Entertaining reminiscence by Clare Sambrook.
24/10/2004 The Sunday Telegraph A work of fiction scathing criticism of The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by Elizabeth Day, plus response letter by Stephen Misander.
26/10/2004 The Guardian Rumbles of backbench discontent over 'toothless' Offa report by Donald MacLeod.
28/10/2004 The Oxford Mail Apocalypse no. University does not face funding crisis, reports Monica Sloan.
29/10/2004 The Oxford Magazine OUP abandons chemistry. Letter from Professor/Delegate R. J. P. Wiliams.
9/11/2004 The Guardian Strings attached by Sir Martin Harris. The offtoffprof conciliates.
9/11/2004 The Times £200m boost for poor students. Report by Alexandra Blair.
10/11/2004 The Guardian Drop in Oxbridge applications report by Donald MacLeod.
12/11/2004 The Times Higher Education Supplement Norrington table scrapped. Report by Phil Baty, plus new league table.
12/11/2004* The Times Higher Education Supplement Offtoffprofsoft?. Profile of Sir Martin Harris, Manchester by Paul Hill, plus THES leader comment.
3/12/2004 The Times Literary Supplement The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography More mistakes identified in OUP's flagship publication. A series of letters from Nikolai Tolstoy (x2), Lawrence Goldman, Brian Vickers, Deidre Le Faye, Thomas Speer, Charles Harrison Wallace, Edward Chaney, Christopher Hawtree, Mark Nixon.
5/12/2004 The Sunday Times Oxford admissions reveal bias to state pupils report by John Elliott and Geraldine Hackett.
11/12/2004 The Times Oxford degree to cost £26,000 after university raises its fees report by Tony Halpin.
16/12/2004 The Guardian State school applications remain static at Oxford report by Donald MacLeod.
17/12/2004 The Guardian Studying form could help secure a place at Oxford report by Donald MacLeod.
12/1/2005 The Guardian How to save Oxford from mediocrity article by Richard Lambert.
13/1/2005* The Oxford Student Bullingdon brawl ringleader is Princess Diana's nephew. Following our glimpse of Nazi Harry's charming Gloucester set, an hilarious peek into Oxford's Bullingdon Club. Report by Roger Waite, plus leader comment and deconstruction by Harry Mount.
25/1/2005* The Times Funding crisis forces Oxford to cut British student places Front-page lead report by Tony Halpin. New university strategy paper heralds retreat from UK education system, admits reliance on OUP's illegal profits. The beginning of the end for Oxford's collegiate structure? Plus letters from Helen Fisher, John Hood.
25/1/2005 The Times Oxford over the brink Comment article by Simon Jenkins urging Oxford's privatisation.
25/1/2005 The Daily Telegraph Oxford University is to take fewer British students Report by John Clare, Education Editor.
25/1/2005 The Guardian Oxford may slash number of British students to cut debt. Report by Rebecca Smithers. Plus staff report on backlash Oxford attacked over plan to cut UK students.
27/1/2005 The Times Universities pay the price of European expansion. Report by Tony Halpin.
28/1/2005 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Oxford drive to restore its reputation Report by Tony Tysome plus leader comment. Reliance on OUP's illegal profits again admitted.
30/1/2005 The Sunday Times Hood's foreign horizzzzon "Admitting more foreign students is not about raising money it's about raising standards," John Hood tells Stuart Wavell. Yeah, right.
2/2005* various sources Two appointments with Mammon Hood's bagmen hit Oxford: Jon Dellandrea (Chief Advancement Officer at the University of Toronto) is to become OU Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Development and External Affairs), and Giles Kerr (Group Finance Director of Amersham plc) is to become OU Director of Finance. With photos and links.
3/2/2005 Full text of Chris Patten's magnificent, humming Radcliffe Lecture, featuring Winnie the Pooh, Cardinal Newman (of course), The Q'ing Emperors' eunuchs, President Chirac, the Minstrels of Hypertext, Plato & Aristotle, E.M. Forster's teapot, Confucius, Gussie Fink-Nottle, St Vincent de Paul, Andrew Strauss, Lord Curzon, the moneyed yobs of Brideshead, Raphael, Alastair Campbell, Philip Larkin and more...
4/2/2005 The Guardian Exempt Oxford from fees cap, pleads Patten report by Matthew Taylor on Chris Patten's hum.
11/2/2005 Varsity Oxford pushes for uncapped fees report by Amelia Worsley on Chris Patten's hum.
12/2/2005 Cherwell Patten: more fees, fewer yobs report by Karen Burke and Patricia Doherty on Chris Patten's hum.
11/2/2005 The Times Literary Supplement The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Withering letter from ODNBcontributer Arthur Freeman, suggesting that over 25% of its entries may be unreliable.
17/2/2005 The Oxford Student Oxford discriminates against 'second rank' universities report by Morwenna Coniam.
18/2/2005 Private Eye Bookworm piece about the ODNB row.
22/2/2005 The Guardian Oxford accused of snobbery after leak report by Polly Curtis on 'weak universities' slur.
24/2/2005 The Oxford Student Degrees of snobbery. Opinion piece by Anna Maybank and Tom Rayner on Oxford's dubious medic admissions tests.
24/2/2005* The Times Colleges to lose autonomy or not. News report by Alexandra Blair, with 'Big Bang' comment article by Richard Lambert, leader and response letters.
25/2/2005 The Oxford Times University plans overhaul of structure. Succinct news report.
3/3/2005 The Independent Mutiny, riots, rebellion report by Lucy Hodges from Backlash College, plus leader comment.
3/3/2005 The Independent Needn't pay, won't pay! report by Lucy Hodges on EU liggers.
6/3/2005 The Observer At £7,500 for the set, you'd think they'd get their facts right. Report by Vanessa Thorpe on ODNB mistakes: the groundswell spreads.
15/3/2005 The Oxford Student Cuts to combat 'chronic under-funding' report by Rachel Cornwell on Oxford's proposed "learning environments plurality" (i.e. abandonment of the tutorial system).
15/3/2005 The Oxford Magazine The Oxford Admissions Study Article by Professor Anthony Heath (Nuffield) on Oxford's sexism, racism, toffism and donnism.
16/3/2005 The Daily Mail Oxford dons accused of bias against girls Report by Laura Clark on Oxford's sexism, racism, toffism and donnism.
MARCH 2005: WELCOME TO BODLEYWORLD (see also March 2001)
March 2005 ESTABLISHMENT REVIEW (pdf file) Oxford's secret plans to build world's first underwater library. Regret to save website space, the pdf file (~700K) has been removed from the site, but can be e-mailed on request; an html version is in preparation.
31/3/2005* The Daily Telegraph Dons fearful over plans for Radcliffe Camera report by John Clare.
1/4/2005* The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Bodleian may not survive cut intact report by Tony Tysome & Roger Waite.
8/4/2005* The Oxford Times University faces revolt on libraries. Report by Reg Little on Osney Mad.
15/4/2005* The Oxford Times Institutions with a limited shelf-life. In-depth by Reg Little, featuring dirty tricks and gagged staff.
15/4/2005 The Oxford Times Primary duties. Letters by Professor Paul Slack, Michael Erben.
21/4/2005 The Times Literary Supplement Unrevealed plans. Letter by Brigid Allen.
21/4/2005 The Oxford Student Cuts And Closures Planned As Libraries Tackle Huge Deficits, Student Library Assistants To Lose Out In Staff Pay Cuts reports by Alex Baker and Rachel Cornwell.
22/4/2005 The Oxford Magazine The Great Oxford Library Disaster. Letter by Brigid Allen, featuring Homo Protobibliothecarius Bodleianus.
15/4/2005 The Library Journal Is ODNB Tarnished by Errors? Report by Michael Rogers and Mirela Roncevic on ODNB mistakes. "The shifting sea of scholarship" asserts OUP. Ah, yes.
15/4/2005* The Oxford Times Student served with injunction over study. Report by Monica Sloan about the university's bizarre service of injunctions against animal rights. Photography, girlfriends, e-mails are all banned.
APRIL 2005: THE LAUNCH OF OXFORD UNLIMITED
16/4/2005* The Times Oxford cashes in on cachet of its name. Report by Patrick Foster, plus opaque leader comment. "Oxford's commercialism close to prostitution" says Oxford's manager. DIM-squad to market 'Tiny Oxford' baby clothes etc. How wet can they get?
22/4/2005 The Oxford Times University to trade on its good name. Similar report by Reg Little.
APRIL - JULY 2005: Diamond Versi vs Keble College & Roger Boden
Separately indexed, linked series on the historic unfair dismissal and racial discrimination case. Click for the VERSINDEX or for the first series item Dramatis Personae.
APRIL/MAY 2005: CONGREGATION BARS HOODIES
26/4/2005 The Independent Academics revolt at 'plan to run Oxford like a business'. Report by Sarah Cassidy, with comment by Andrew Malcolm and response letter from Dame Jssica Rawson.
26/4/2005 The Guardian Oxford dons rebel over plan to hand powers to business leaders . Report by Donald MacLeod and Matthew Taylor on the impending revolt of Congregation.
28/4/2005* The Oxford Student Dons Stage Revolt Over Vice Chancellor's Plans To Reform University Governance report by Jack Shenker, with Hoodie pic.
28/4/2005 The Oxford Student Oxford Postpones Admissions Reforms, Admissions Procedures Bypassed reports by Patrick Foster and Roger Waite.
29/4/2005* The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Staff allege 'bullying tactics' at Oxford report by Tony Tysome, featuring an hilarious formula-letter. Congregation stirs...
29/4/2005 Cherwell Tutors challenge reforms. Report by Christopher Lillywhite on dons' three motions.
30/4/2005 The Guardian Dons fear betrayal as Oxford looks to business. Re port spluttering by Matthew Taylor.
2/5/2005 The Oxford Magazine Alternatives on governance. Coarse, jeering, fishy article by Alan Ryan on Oxford's 'Working Paper'.
2/5/2005 The New Zealand Herald Hood staunch in the face of Oxford dons' hostility. Report from down under by Stuart Dye.
3/5/2005* The Guardian Oxford gets first woman registrar. Report by Donald MacLeod on the appointment of Hood croney Julie Maxton.
5/5/2005* The Independent Oxford first. Leader comment on Julie Maxton.
17/5/2005 The Guardian Fights, Camera, action. Report by Donald MacLeod and Matthew Taylor on revolution day. Plus, Vice-chancellor to face critics over Oxford reform plans similar report by Polly Curtis.
19/5/2005 The Independent Dons win first round in reform struggle . Report by Lucy Hodges, again featuring Alan Ryan.
19/5/2005 The Economist The vice-chancellor's punt. Report on Congregation's rebellion.
19/5/2005 The Oxford Student Dons shoot down Vice Chancellor's plans for pay by performance report by Rob Lewis, featuring turkeys on the menu. Also* Revealed: the Vice Chancellor's expenses report by Roger Waite. Hood's spending double his predecessor's.
20/5/2005 Cherwell Dons rally against academic reforms. Report by Christopher Lillywhite on the creeps' charter.
21/5/2005 The Times The outsider stirring a revolution at the heart of Oxford University . Report by Giles Whittell, featuring David Palfreyman, a great asset.
24/5/2005 The vice-chancellor's report to Congregation: Post-doctoral links with India to be considered.
26/5/2005* The Oxford Student Ancient college taxation system changed amid renewed criticism report by Alex Baker on the College Contribution scheme and Akme's posting of the Oxford College Endowments, 1973-2003.
27/5/2005* The Oxford Times Dressed for battle . Excellent in-depth report by Reg Little on the turmoil in the chicken run.
27/5/2005 Cherwell College investments questioned . Report by Christopher Lillywhite and Tom Pursey on the ethicality of the colleges' share portfolios.
2/6/2005 The Oxford Student Hood 'Close To Resigning' After Dons' Rebellion report by Roger Waite and Rob Lewis.
12/6/2005 The Boston Globe Proposals spur battle over Oxford's modern identity Article by Sarah Liebowitz. Alan Ryan survives the black death.
28/6/2005 The Times (T2) Chill winds of change blowing through Oxford's dreamy spires . Interesting article by Anthony Howard, post a gownless gaudy.
14/8/2005 The Mail on Sunday Now Oxford 'dumbs down' interviews for state pupils . Hilarious report by Glen Owen, featuring the old sofa trick, the bath technique, and the thoughts of worms, bananas and Muslim girls.
30/9/2005 The Times Oxford to give outsiders equal say on its future . Report by Tony Halpin, Education Editor: Hood vs. Congregation, Round 2.
1/10/2005 The Financial Times Oxford 'outsider' serves up peace offering . Reports by Jon Boone on Oxford's (and Cambridge's) attempts to modernise: Hood vs. Cong 2.
1/10/2005 The Science Show Hood hunted. Transcript of Robyn Williams interviewing John Hood on Radio National.
5/10/2005 The Oxford Student report by Sian Davies Oxford retailers forced out by colleges' 40 per cent rent hikes. University creates 'Clone City'.
5/10/2005 The Oxford Student report by Jack Shenker Dons set for fresh showdown with Vice-Chancellor. Hood vs. Cong 2: power-crazigarchy.
5/10/2005 Cherwell report by Nussaibah Younis Draft corporate plan may lead to undergraduate cuts . Hood vs. Cong 2: a Harvard rain.
9/10/2005 Financial Times article by Della Bradshaw Oxford aspires to new horizons . Hood and Oxford's business schools. Enough Said.
31/10/2005 The Times Oxford self-rule hangs in balance. Report by Tony Halpin, Education Editor, plus comment article by Lord Butler of Brockwell Oxford cannot carry on like this. Congregation debates Governance: "yes it can".
3&10/11/2005 The Independent The battle for Oxford. Leader articles on Hood vs. Cong 2.
3/11/2005 The Oxford Student Hood receives boost: no fireworks. Report by James Grande on Hood vs. Cong 2.
10/11/2005 The Independent Can Oxford attract more black students? Report by Nick Jackson on the university's quest for a rap cure for diabetes.
10/11/2005 The Oxford Student Reform Battle continues. Hood vs. Cong 2: Comment piece/manifesto by Nicholas Bamforth.
25/11/2005 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Curb your Vice-Chancellor report by Tony Tysome. The uni versus the colleges part 1,556. Seven centuries mystery deepenzzz.
27/11/2005* The Independent on Sunday Scheming spires. Business Week special report by Stanley Reed, featuring David Palfreyman: no way to hide.
12/2005 The Oldie D.N.B. - N.B.G.. Article by A. D. Harvey. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography still repeats 'untrue family legends'.
8/1/2006* The Sunday Times Mr Blair, kindly get your tanks off our quadrangles. Report by Sian Griffiths on Andrew Boggis's criticism of Oxford's dubious medic admissions tests, plus a 'private Laura Spence story'.
20/1/2006 Private Eye Antipodes. News report on John Hood's marriage bust-up, plus Akme item on his son's rugger injury.
20/1/2006 The Guardian Report by Owen Gibson Oxford journalism institute aims to bridge trust gap. John Hood opens Reuters media talk-shop.
23/1/2006 AKME EXCLUSIVE Zygotes Wild Report on Oxford's bogus medic admissions tests, featuring six-fingered hands, stillborn babies and bungs a-plenty. No Hope for the Sick.
JANUARY 2006: OXFORD INTRODUCES STUDENT CONTRACTS
26/1/2006 The Oxford Student New student contract to make lectures compulsory report by Sian Davies. Oxford finally certifies itself. Plus risible leader comment Signing our respect away.
31/1/2006 The Times Students forced to sign 'I'll try harder' contracts report by Jonathan Richards and Tony Halpin. Micael Beloff QC is confident he can locate the document. Plus link to response letters.
1/2/2006* The Guardian Another hard day in the library Lead feature in G2 section, with excellent comment pieces by Germaine Greer and John Sutherland, plus 'how hard was uni?' snippets by ac-celebs.
1/2/2006 The Financial Times Report by John Boone Oxford draws up student study contracts . DIM-squad: "There has always been an arrangement."
1/2/2006 The Birmingham Post Report by Shahid Naqvi Student contracts come under fire. Only at Oxford.
2/2/2006 The Oxford Student Lecture contract delayed by JCRs report by Sian Davies.
2/2/2006* The Times Dons plan formal protest over reforming outsider report by Tony Halpin. Oppenheimer: "Hood is absolutely intolerable, a very disagreeable man". Palfreyman: "His departure can't be far off." Plus the thoughts of Chairman Patten, as confided to Penny Wark: Basket case in pinky-yellow. Plus link to response letters.
2/2/2006 The Guardian No-confidence vote looms for Oxford vice-chancellor More of the same, with Pinky and Perky quotes.
3/2/2005 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Reports by Anna Fazackerley and Claire Sanders: Rebels push for vote on V-C, Hood faces new turmoil, with Private Eye and Sunday Times pieces on Sir Victor Blank. Students attack contracts plus acute opinion article by Frank Furedi Defensive education. Yup, it's a basket case.
3/2/2006 The Daily Telegraph Comment piece by Tom Utley Today's students cannot afford my three years of idleness.
3/2/2006 Cherwell Student contract controversy continues with wave of denial Report by Sam Counsell: communication problems codified.
3/2/2006 The New Zealand Herald Report by Kent Atkinson Controversy over Hood's leadership of Oxford At Auckland Hood earned $420,000 a year.
4/2/2006 The Independent The students never fell asleep... Entertaining comment piece by Howard Jacobson.
5/2/2006 The Observer New contract for prisoners. Coincidental report by Jamie Doward: basket case bang up.
9/2/2006 Oxford Student Dons rally against John Hood Report by Samira Shackle: no confidence in/from/by Palfreyman? The implications of student contracts Leader comment by Julian Nicholds (NUS): consideration please. Students denied exam feedback Report by Jack Shenker and James Grande: unopened can of worms. £2 million library cuts planned Report by Annie McDermott.
10/2/2006 Oxford Times Heads rush to defence of Dr Hood. Report by Reg Little. Palfreyman needs boil lancing.
10/2/2006 Cherwell Hood under fire from rebel dons. Front-page report by Sam Counsell. It runs like this...
10/2/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Report by Claire Sanders: OUP cash to kickstart careers. New, even more dubious, ultra unsound flouting of OUP's charitable mandate.
13/2/2006 The Financial Times Chancellor Lord Chris gives a Leadership interview to Alison Maitland, revealing Patten targets India's students for Oxford.
13-16/2/2006 The Guardian Beggar Sahib Report by Liz Ford on Chris Patten's student recruitment drive in India. Combined with similar reports in The Independent, The Hindu, The Hindustan Times, The Oxford Student: Oxford lakh rupees.
14/2/2006 The Oxford Magazine A collective statement Letter of support for Hood: 3,500 to go.
17/2/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) comment article by Alan Ryan: 'Chucking children who can't swim into deep water to see which of them drowns soonest is no way to behave'. Oxford's leading exact thinker executes the perfect flip-flop in just 7 days.
23/2/2006 Oxford Student Students draw up charters Report by Sophie Leedham: countering the contract.
23/2/2006 Cherwell Students fight back against new contract Report by Sam Counsell: The Unconfidence of Colleges.
21/4/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Report by Claire Sanders: Oxford is urged to split V-C role. Plan to dismember John Hood, with Alan Ryan caught wielding the usual knife. Plus Akme's revolutionary governance proposal.
21/4/2006 Cherwell Report by Carol Bhaskar: John Hood paid more than PM. New V-C trousers £200K.
28/4/2006 Cherwell Report by Juliette Fisher: VC's role under fire from dons.
25/5/2006* The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Report by Jessica Shepherd: Fellows share land sale bonus. New College dons trouser £30K each at King Gnome's Cream Tea. Al-Ryan's counter-wind-up?
25/5/2006 The Daily Telegraph Report by Liz Lightfoot Windfall for dons after £55m land sale. Same story, shorter version.
1/6/2006 Oxford Student Report by Ed Hancox New College tutors receive £30,000 bonus from land sale. Same story, disgusting food.
2/6/2006 Cherwell Report by Vincent Romanelli Dons share £55 million windfall. Same story, disgusting Burseoisie quote.
1/6/2006 The Independent & Guardian Brief reports: Colleges reject admission reforms. Playing The College Game.
2/6/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Report by Claire Sanders: Colleges to keep grip on admissions. Plan B.
2/6/2006 Oxford Times Court victory for university in lab battle. Report by Monica Sloan, plus (30/5/2006 Oxford Gazette-ish Governance Reform: A Democratic Approach to Oxford's Future. Alternative governance 'blue paper' authored by Susan Cooper, Nicholas Bamforth, Robin Briggs, Donald Fraser and Gavin Williams. Akme's exclusive html version. A contract out for Hood's head?)
2/6/2006 The Times Report by Tony Halpin: Oxford on course to hand over the reins to outsiders. Hood vs. Cong III.
3/6/2006 The Times Response letters to preceding article by Liora Lazarus and Nicholas Bamforth & the Gang of Five.
8/6/2006 Oxford Student Report by Andy Heath Rebel dons step up attacks on Vice-Chancellor. Nicholas Bamforth declares his anti-Hood candidacy for Council seat.
8/6/2006* Oxford Student Report by Ed Hancox Suns sets on the Hildabeast. Mixed feelings as St Hilda's votes to go co-ed.
9/6/2006 Cherwell Report by Juliette Fisher and Sam Counsell Hood pushes on with plans to take power from dons . Plus coloured flysheet scandal at The Oxford Gazette.
9/6/2006 Oxford Times Colleges will retain control of admissions. Monica Sloan reports: lottery as usual.
9/6/2006 Oxford Times End of an era for all-woman college. Breakfast frolics at St Hilda's.
16/6/2006* The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Report by Claire Sanders: Critic of Oxford reforms gains seat on council . Bam!
16/6/2006 Oxford Times Investing for the future. Report by Chris Koenig on Christ Church, Balliol and St Catherine's joint OXIP money-spinney gamble. Plus Akme revelation: New College & St John's too.
16/6/2006 Oxford Times Wine goes missing from college cellar. News report: more low jinx at All Hours College.
16/6/2006 Oxford Times All Souls declines unusual bequest. Monica Sloan reports: sunstroke too.
30/6/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Report by Claire Sanders: University grandee reaches for his lawyer . Sir Victor Blank instructs Carter-Fuck. Gloves off DIM-style.
30/6/2006* The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Adding water to organic seeds of change. Claire Sanders interviews Liora Lazarus, drafting secretary of OU Governance Working Party.
28/7/2006 Oxford Times University rapped over admissions. New state-biased system "immoral".
28/7/2006 Oxford Times Police block animal rights demonstration. Report by Phil Vinter.
21/8/2006 The Independent Furious dispute in the ivory towers. Report by Nick Jackson.
11/9/2006* The Guardian Students told: turn up or face expulsion. Front page lead report on student contracts by James Meikle.
12/9/2006 Akme exclusive Oxford declares War on Error. Bachelor O'Farts reports that under the university's new contracts, if students make essay mistakes, they may be 'sent up'. Also linked version.
12/9/2006* The Guardian Marathon Woman Donald Macleod interviews Julie Maxton: "my running now takes place extremely early in the morning."
14/9/2006 The Independent No wonder students shun their lectures. Incisive comment piece on student contracts by Johann Hari.
1/10/2006 The Sunday Times Oxford college dons get cut of land sale. Akme-generated "bloody disgrace" report by Geraldine Hackett and Roger Waite on King Gnome's Cream Tea, featuring Craig Raine, leg man at trough.
3/10/2006 The Independent Oxford college fund opened to private investors. Report by James Daley on OXIP.
5/10/2006 Oxford Student Dons set for fresh showdown with Vice-Chancellor. Report by Jack Shenker.
6/10/2006 Oxford Times Business school plan for £30m expansion. More than enough Said.
8/10/2006 The Sunday Times Tutors' new tuition fees. Two corker letters from King Gnome and Peter Clarke. William of Wykeham rears his head, and the Bishop of Winchester.
13/10/2006 Cherwell Oxford colleges in the money. Report by Billy Kenber on OXIP's feeding fund.
13/10/2006 Cherwell John Hood calls for higher top-up fees. Report by Joshua Freedman: £10k ahoy.
20/10/2006 Cherwell Students ignorant of controversial reforms. Report by James Rogers.
23/10/2006 The Guardian Former Oxford VC defends governance reforms. Report by Alexandra Smith: Sir Colin Lucas's view.
2/11/2006 Online item Web publication of controversial book. OUP grovels from Calcutta to Essen; postscript to 26/4/2001.
2/11/2006 Oxford Student How Saudi oil money corrupted Oxford. News report by Kate McMullen on Oxford's going to bed with Prince Sultan Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud. Link (oil pipeline?) to Prince Sultan University webpage (+ pics) and Akme footnote.
2/11/2006 Oxford Student Merton unveils secret disciplinary weapon: Facebook. Report by Zoe McCallum: Big Sister is watching you.
2/11/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Saudi cash sparks row. Report by Phil Baty, with PSU link and Akme footnote.
3/11/2006 The Times Dons suspicious over Oxford's new Saudi link. News report by education correspondent Alexandra Blair, with PSU link, letter (7/11) by Elizabeth Fallaize and Akme footnote.
3/11/2006 Cherwell Sultan's £2m Oxford gift raises fear of favouritism. Report by James Rogers on Saudi deal, plus Akme footnote.
5/11/2006 The Observer Dons fight plan for businessmen to run Oxford. Preview of the BIG MEETING by Anushka Asthana, education correspondent.
9/11/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Oxford set to vote on ending self-governance. Preview of the BIG MEETING by Claire Sanders: Oxford plays usual amendment game, Butler attempts rebalancing act. Plus opinion piece by Brian Leftow Leave those in the know to manage the show.
10/11/2006 Cherwell 14 November: Oxford's future determined. Preview of the BIG MEETING by Kate Collins and James Rogers: no compromise, no choice, just vote for Xmas, turkeys, or vote for Boxing Day.
10/11/2006 Varsity Oxford dons battle against reforms. Preview of the BIG MEETING by Florence Lui: nuanced view from Cambridge.
10/11/2006 The Guardian Oxford outlines funding reforms. Report by Alexandra Smith: Jram tomorrow.
12/11/2006 The Sunday Times Cabal of dons tries to stop Oxford reforms. Preview of the BIG MEETING by education correspondent Geraldine Hackett: witchcraft, vegetables, port.
13/11/2006 The Times Oxford dons ready for final battle over who controls their university. Preview of the BIG MEETING by education correspondent Alexandra Blair: a certain weariness.
13/11/2006 The Financial Times A measured response... An out-of-date model. Two opinion pieces by David Womersley and Peter Johnson.
13&14/11/2006 The Guardian Down to business. Donald MacLeod interviews Chris Patten, plus comments from David Palfreyman.
14/11/2006 The Times Leader comment Beyond Magdalen Bridge The Chunderer votes for Hood's reforms.
14/11/2006 The Times Oxford's corporate madness. Opinion piece by Terence Kealey, plus response letters.
14/11/2006 The Daily Telegraph British students will suffer under Oxford reforms, say academics. Report Graeme Paton, Education Correspondent.
14/11/2006 The Guardian Leader comment Oxford Disunited.
15/11/2006 The Times Dons tell of pressure on Oxford to reform. Report of the BIG MEETING by education correspondent Alexandra Blair: Butler amendment railroaded by 652 to 507.
15/11/2006 The Daily Telegraph Oxford moves step closer to outside control. Report of the BIG MEETING by education editor Liz Lightfoot: Iraq, weapons of mass-deception, uncivil servants.
15/11/2006 The Guardian Unquiet flows the dons' debate. Entertaining report of the BIG MEETING by Esther Addley: anyone fancy a pint?
15/11/2006 The Guardian Oxford debate: both sides claim victory. Report of the BIG MEETING by Donald MacLeod.
15/11/2006 The Independent Why Oxford's future matters to the world. Comment piece by Hamish McRae. Didn't Bliar go there?
15/11/2006 BBC online Dons move towards finance reform .
16/11/2006 Oxford Student Intimidation, intrigue and spin: the high price of reform . Report of the BIG MEETING by Andy Heath.
16/11/2006 Oxford Student Report by Andy Heath Government set to interfere in Oxford's future. And so begins the brownmail... (first of linked series).
16/11/2006 Oxford Student Report by Zoe McCallum Poorest colleges risk funding cuts with reforms . JRAM raid.
17/11/2006* Cherwell Congregation passes reform amendment. Report of the BIG MEETING by Jessica Baylis and James Rogers.
17/11/2006* Cherwell Bod work continues after cobbling blunders. Report by Harry Kretchmer on the Radcliffe Square fiasco.
17/11/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Dons warily vote to reform. Rainy report on the BIG MEETING by Claire Sanders.
17/11/2006 The Oxford Times Dons back university reforms. Report on the BIG MEETING by Phil Vinter, plus response letter.
20/11/2006 The Times Running Oxford. Letter by Peter Oppenheimer.
21/11/2006* The Times Universities to get extra money for giving places to the poor. Front page lead report by Alexandra Blair, plus Leader comment. The timing not a coincidence, the government's gauntlet laid down. Well done, Dim squad.
23/11/2006 Oxford Student Report by Andy Heath Government changes will cost Oxford millions . Brownmail 2.
24/11/2006* The Oxford Times Cobbles put a dampener on underground library. Report on the Radcliffe Square fiasco.
28/11/2006 The Times In Oxford cloisters the alarm bells ring. Comment piece by Libby Purves on day of VOTE TWO.
28/11/2006 The Times Universities follow Ivy League by hiring investment advisors. Report by Alexandra Athena on Cambridge's investment move.
29/11/2006 The Times Universities told to target poor areas. Report by Alexandra Blair: Brownmail 3.
29/11/2006 The Times Dons reject plan that will halt 900 years of self-rule by Oxford. Report by Alexandra Blair and Jack Shenker on VOTE TWO. Even the headline equivocates.
29/11/2006 The Telegraph Oxford dons vote down plan to take away their powers . Report by Liz lightfoot on VOTE TWO.
29/11/2006 The Guardian Oxford dons reject plan to hand over power. Report by James Meikle on VOTE TWO.
29/11/2006* The Independent Oxford dons humiliate vice-chancellor and reject his reform plans. Report by Sarah Cassidy on VOTE TWO. The Vice-Chancellor is usurped.
29/11/2006 The Financial Times Dons reject plan that will halt 900 years of self-rule by Oxford. Report by William MacNamara on VOTE TWO. Again the headline equivocates.
29/11/2006 The Financial Times Cambridge builds a fund lead. Report by Kate Burgess on Cambridge's investment move. Man Global man to benchmark globally.
1/12/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Hood loses Oxford vote . Report by Jessica Shepherd on VOTE TWO.
8/12/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) 'Managers played fast and loose'. Comment article on VOTE TWO by Alan Ryan.
15/12/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Hood to stay on if he loses . Report by Jessica Shepherd on VOTE THREE, plus link to Hood's I won't resign letter of 6/10 (6/12?) (Jpeg).
20/12/2006 The Times Oxford faces paralysis as dons keep business out. Report by Alexandra Blair on VOTE THREE.
20/12/2006 The Telegraph I'll fight on, says Oxford 'moderniser'. Report by Liz lightfoot on VOTE THREE.
20/12/2006 The Guardian Vote sinks controversial plan to end academic self-rule at Oxford. Report by James Meikle on VOTE THREE.
20/12/2006* The Independent Oxford dons reject plan to hand powers to 'oligarchy' of outsiders. Report by Jonathan Brown on VOTE THREE. The Vice-Chancellor shot.
20/12/2006 The Financial Times Dons reject proposals for reforms of Oxford. Report by William MacNamara on VOTE THREE. Plus perceptive comment piece by Jon Boone.
22-29/12/2006 The Times Higher (Education Supplement) Defeated v-c will be called to Commons. Report by Jessica Shepherd and Jamie Munk on VOTE THREE and fallout, plus timeline and leader comment.
2/2/2007 The Bookseller Review of UK publishers, 2006. OUP's 2006 revenue £33 million - UK's largest independent.
2/3/2007 The Oxford Times & Mail £490m plan for infirmary site, plus £29m book store. The concreting of Oxford continues.
13/2/2007 The Hindu "University presses act as gatekeepers". Extracts from a probing interview by Mukund Padmanabhan of OUP's Chief Executive Henry Reece. HR's kiteflying brainstorm includes: Eng. Lit. dons can't judge poetry * OUP's tax unimportant, symbolic * The Arc of the Covenant: 30 years too late.
4/3/2007 The Sunday Times Rhodes scholars give Oxford D-minus . Report by Christine Finn on article in The Harvard Crimson (included) by Melissa Dell and Swati Mylavarapu, 25/2/07.
8/3/2007 The Independent I'm not racist, but... . Report by Richard Gardner plus comment piece by Terence Blacker on the STAR petition against Professor David Coleman. Item on Migrationwatch UK, plus Professor Coleman's letter in the Oxford Magazine, 11/3/07.
8/3/2007 The Daily Mail Oxford protestors 'hounding out' professor who spoke up on immigration issues. More on David Coleman, professor of mars bars and tabasco.
11/3/2007 The Sunday Times The flight now leaving Heathrow is... empty. Report by Dominic O'Connell and Maurice Chittenden on Wafic Said's empty jets, plus links.
16/3/2007 The Bookseller Charities review could hit publishers. Report by Tom Tivnan, with comments by Oxford academic Andrew Malcolm: OUP to be taxed at last? Plus hilarious Oxford advertisement: Touch me minky.
21/3/2007 AKME exclusive EMPTY VESSELS. Report by aviation correspondent Bachelor O'Farts on the DimAir Congregator scandal, plus links: Where's me joystick?
17/4/2007 The Guardian Freedom of the presses. Report by Jessica Shepherd, with more comments by Oxford academic Andrew Malcolm. First ever mention in a national newspaper of OUP's 1978 tax-exemption conditions: Please touch me minky.
18/4/2007 Cherwell New tax laws threaten University press. Report by Maha Atal, a bungled coppy of the preseding Guardian articel.
19/4/2007 Oxford Student New library site to be built (sic). Report by Hannah Kuchler and Madhumita Venkataramanan.
15/5/2007 The Guardian No sanctions as Oxbridge continues to defy modernisation plans. Education Section report by Debbie Andalo on looming government sanctions.
27/7/2007 The Guardian Floods delay new Oxford library building. Underwater report by Donald MacLeod.
8/8/2007 The Guardian Oxford reprimanded for failing to modernise. Report by Jessica Shepherd.
17/9/2007 The Guardian Solution or disaster? Bodleian's plan for £29m store divides Oxford. Disaster report by Maev Kennedy.
21/9/2007* The Oxford Times Turning a £29m leaf. Full-page feature article by Reg Little: Bodleian Library awaits critical planning decision.
28/9/2007 The Guardian Riverside expansion for Bodleian library approved. Underwater report by Donald MacLeod.
5/10/2007 The Oxford Times University's proposal to raise £1bn. Front page lead report by Reg Little.
5/10/2007 The Oxford Times University book depository plan to be looked at again. Cold water hits new library.
16/11/2007 The Independent How the dons beat the Oxford vice-chancellor. Report by Andy McSmith on John Hood's departure, featuring (of course) Alan Ryan's two pennyworth. Plus short Times piece.
16/11/2007 The Oxford Times Opposition grows to book store plan. New library sinking?
20/11/2007 Cherwell Plans for New Bodleian Depository Rejected. Report by Sian Cox-Brooker.
22/11/2007 The Guardian Alan Ryan 'retires'. Item in People column by Maev Kennedy.
23/11/2007 The Oxford Times Book depository proposal rejected by city councillors. Bod shed shed?
25/1/2008* The Bookseller Charity Squeeze begins. Report by Tom Tivnan, with more comments by Oxford academic Andrew Malcolm: sword of Damocles sharpened.
24/4/2008 The Bookseller Rivals attack OUP and CUP. Report by Tom Tivnan on the Gristmiller's Grind.
8/2/2008* The Bookseller Charitable recollections. Opinion page letter from Andrew Malcolm, published after conslutations with (and minor alterations by) the Bookseller's lawyers: first time ever revelation in UK media of OUP's and CUP's failed applications for tax-exemption in the 1940s and 1950s; debate widened to include the charitable status (and public non-benefit) of the Oxbridge colleges.
16/5/2008* The Oxford Times OUP status attacked. Local publisher is among those questioning charitable status of Oxford University Press. Full-page Business section report by Chris Koenig.
23/5/2008* The Oxford Times Tenants 'have no right to buy' says university. Residents pin their hopes on change in law relating to charities. Full-page Business section report by Chris Koenig. First shots fired in the battle for enfranchisement on the OUP-built housing estates at Jordan Hill and Webb's Close. Also click for Akme's Enfranchisement chronology.
30/5/2008* The Oxford Times OUP 'is no charity'. Leader page letter by Andrew Malcolm concerning the Jordan Hill/Webb's Close enfranchisement battle. Also click for Akme's Enfranchisement chronology.
