She left school with an impressive list of O levels. But she didn鈥檛 go to university as her father thought she'd get married and a degree would be wasted. Fifty years on, aged 66, Myra Fonceca will become the oldest person to get a history degree from Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.
Mature students came from all over the country 鈥 in one case travelling overnight by bus 鈥 to take part in a Mature Students Open Day held last Saturday. 探花直播event, which introduced students to studying at Cambridge and to the admissions process, was based at Hughes Hall, one of Cambridge鈥檚 four mature colleges.
A group of prospective mature students took part in a pilot mature students shadowing day run by Cambridge 探花直播 Students Union (CUSU) yesterday.
探花直播award-winning author and Cambridge alumna Dr Claire Tomalin will be giving the 2008 Leslie Stephen Lecture in Cambridge next Wednesday (October 22).
They call it imposter syndrome: it鈥檚 the heart-sinking feeling you get when you feel that the people around you have quite the wrong idea about you. For example that you are incredibly brainy like them when you have not a single intelligent thought in your head and want to bolt for home.
More than 1,100 alumni and guests came back to聽Cambridge last weekend for the 探花直播鈥檚 18th annual Alumni Weekend.
American-born Dayle Kaltenborn聽started her working life as an art teacher. On moving to the UK, she worked as a volunteer for more than 20 years, before qualifying as a social worker. Now in her early 60s, she is not planning to put her feet up: last autumn she began an Access course at South Downs College in Havant, Hampshire.
Women who want to change their future are being enlisted in a new course which aims to encourage them into higher education.
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