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News in brief: runners defeated while students told how to walk …
Dec 10, 2024 · This weekend Cambridge experienced winds of up to 56mph as Storm Darragh swept over the nation, causing festive events to be cancelled. The annual Mill Road Winter Fair, scheduled for Saturday 7 December, was called off by organisers in what they described as “a bitter disappointment and a huge financial blow” for local businesses.
Could your college be costing you? | Varsity
Nov 15, 2024 · Varsity is the independent newspaper for the University of Cambridge, established in its current form in 1947. In order to maintain our editorial independence, our print newspaper and news website receives no funding from the University of Cambridge or …
Cambridge ranked fifth in The Times World University Rankings
Oct 11, 2024 · Times University rankings focus on research, percentage of international students and teaching. While Cambridge came fifth, they have significantly more students per staff member than Stanford or Yale, both of whom ranked lower than Cambridge this year.
Vintage Varsity: the gowns they are a-going | Varsity
Nov 15, 2024 · Following Varsity’s most recent exploration of our university’s unique clothing tradition, I investigated how Cambridge student’s gown-wearing has changed over the generations.My findings are unlikely to surprise; students have consistently grumbled at the pomp of wearing gowns and questioned the purpose. However, there was a notable period in the mid-20th century where Cantabridgians ...
GDBO? What Oxonians say about Cambridge | Varsity
Nov 16, 2024 · Ending on a final feud, I asked the Oxonians if they’d rather film a TikTok in front of the Rad Cam or down King’s Parade. Alexander Clovis notes his equal dislike to both locations, “but I think the Rad cam has more going for it,” they explain, “I must admit that I like the mystery of All Souls [College].”
Homerton JCR slams college over their ‘money pissing exercise’
Nov 15, 2024 · Members of Homerton College’s JCR have expressed outrage over the College spending over £500k of College reserves on its “Changemakers” since 2019, with the treasurer labelling it a “money pissing exercise”.
‘Race-realist’ fellow Nathan Cofnas launches legal challenge over ...
Aug 16, 2024 · ‘Race-realist’ fellow Nathan Cofnas is suing Emmanuel College after being fired for claiming that a meritocracy would see the number of black professors at Harvard drop to almost zero.. Cofnas, who was hired by the Philosophy Faculty in 2022, has launched a legal challenge over the college’s decision to cut ties with him after his views were deemed to be “a rejection of diversity ...
Government to increase tuition fees for first time in seven years
Sep 28, 2024 · The government has announced that the price of a university education will increase from £9,250 per year to £10,500 over the next five years.. The Labour Party had previously pledged to abolish the fees altogether, with PM Sir Keir Starmer acknowledging the “huge damage to the economy” caused by the previous government as the reason for this U …
Trinity tops 2024 Tompkins Table as Christ’s is toppled
Sep 23, 2024 · The Tompkins Table is not wholly popular in Cambridge, and is not published officially by the University. In 2018, the Students’ Union denounced the table’s methodology, which it said reflects “the worst of the academic culture here in Cambridge”.. This year’s Tompkins Table was published in the Sunday Times 2025 Good University Guide, which ranked Cambridge as the UK’s fourth-best ...