Universities’ adult education courses are too focused on developing economic and technical skills, rather than on forming rounded, socially informed individuals, a leading educationalist will tell a major international conference on the history of higher education.
Marcus Hunter took his GCSEs at Four Dwellings High School in Birmingham and was encouraged to apply for the GEEMA summer school by his head of year. GEEMA is the Group for Encouraging Ethnic Minority Applications to Cambridge. He is now an A Level student at Lordswood Girls High School (Mixed) Specialist Sixth Form. Marcus was one of 40 students from around the country to take part in last week’s summer school, which was based at Newnham College and the Faculty of Law. He is interested in studying law. Here is his diary.
̽»¨Ö±²¥strong cultural links between Cambridge and Iran were celebrated in a private visit to the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ by the Iranian Ambassador, His Excellency Mr Rasoul Movahedian.
̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ announced the death of former Master of Peterhouse and Fellow of Trinity College Reverend Professor Henry Chadwick, FBE, KBE, who died on Tuesday 17 June 2008 at the age of 88.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales visited Cambridge yesterday for a host of engagements involving the ̽»¨Ö±²¥.
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