Global challenges

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Girls in a classroom in Afghanistan, Credit: Pixabay

Teachers leading global drive to improve girls’ education became frontline workers during COVID-19 closures

04 Feb 2022

Interviews with teachers at the forefront of international efforts to improve girls’ education reveal that many have taken on humanitarian roles, as...

World's poorest children missing out on pre-primary education

21 Jul 2021

Eight in 10 of the world’s poorest children – almost 50 million boys and girls – are missing out on vital education in the first few years of their...

Call For Life, Credit: Infectious Diseases Institute

Phone-based HIV support system repurposed for COVID-19 monitoring in Uganda

22 Jul 2020

A cost-effective phone-based system developed by a Cambridge researcher and her Ugandan colleagues to support HIV patients has been rapidly adapted...

Children of the city: tackling violence in the 21st century

06 Nov 2018

Up to one billion children worldwide are estimated to be victims of violence. Now, an intended study of 12,000 children in eight cities worldwide...

Prof Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President of ERC, meets researchers in biological and health sciences

Cambridge celebrates 10 years of ERC funding

17 Mar 2017

Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, the President of the European Research Council, was in Cambridge on Thursday, 16 March to celebrate the ERC’s 10th...

Without autonomy universities risk losing the public’s trust, says Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the ̽��ֱ�� of Cambridge

27 Sep 2016

“There is an unwritten but widely accepted contract between society and higher education institutions,” said the Vice-Chancellor in his keynote...

Cambridge in Davos

20 Jan 2014

A delegation of Cambridge academics, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is attending the World Economic Forum’s Annual...

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