Claire Tomalin to give 2008 Leslie Stephen Lecture
16 October 2008̽»¨Ö±²¥award-winning author and Cambridge alumna Dr Claire Tomalin will be giving the 2008 Leslie Stephen Lecture in Cambridge next Wednesday (October 22).
PREP Course helps students find their feet
09 October 2008They call it imposter syndrome: it’s 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.
Conference looks at how higher education has affected communities
01 September 2008Universities’ 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.
Olympic joy as Pooley takes cycling silver
14 August 2008Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ graduate Emma Pooley stormed to Olympic Silver in Beijing yesterday during the Cycling Time Trial.
Six ̽»¨Ö±²¥ scholars elected to British Academy
18 July 2008Six Cambridge academics have been made Fellows of the British Academy in the latest round of elections to the prestigious organisation for scholars in the arts and humanities.
Ethnic minority pupils get up to speed on Cambridge applications
13 June 2008Rishi Sharmi, Lateef Olajoku and Shashendri Abayasekera (pictured) were among 125 sixth-formers who attended a GEEMA open day at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge last Thursday. GEEMA, which stands for Group for Encouraging Ethnic Minority Applications, runs a range of annual events to encourage ethnic minority pupils to aim high.
Cambridge students go back to school to raise pupils’ aspirations
09 June 2008Over the next few weeks dozens of Cambridge students will be visiting state schools and colleges in their home areas to talk to pupils about higher education and about applying to Cambridge in particular.
‘Sex, scandal and sermon’ in medieval Spain
08 February 2008A new study of the 14th-century narrative poem Libro de Buen Amor explores how its earthy tales of failed love are shaped by humour.
From Syria's mountains to Cambridge's spires
08 February 2008An artist's extraordinary journey from building his own toys in rural Syria to conceiving a new spire for one of Cambridge's biggest churches will be recounted in a talk this week.
Safeguarding the future of the Backs
30 November 2007All six Colleges on Cambridge's world-famous Backs have agreed a landscape strategy which is intended to set a broad framework for this iconic site over the next 100 years.
