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Cambridge ranked fifth in The Times World University Rankings
Friday October 11 2024, 9:04pm. The University of Cambridge has been ranked fifth in the world in the Times World University Rankings for the second year running. The University was once again beaten by Oxford, who have taken first place for the last nine years. Oxford was followed by MIT, Harvard, and Princeton which took the second, third ...
The next Covid-19: why future pandemics are ‘a certainty’
Thursday October 10 2024, 10:00am. Prof Sir Chris Whitty has warned a future pandemic as big as Covid is “a certainty”. Given the widespread and devastating health, social and economic impacts of Covid, it is important that scientists have a detailed understanding of possible future threats. The World Health Organisation publishes an ...
What’s behind Cambridge’s lasting influence over Westminster?
by Nick James. Friday March 1 2024, 12:00am. During the 1980s and 1990s, the halls of Westminster were held captive by a mafia. This mafia sat on the front row of the green leather benches where they wielded enough influence to determine the fate of the country. But this Mafia was not from Sicily, they were from Cambridge.
Trinity tops 2024 Tompkins Table as Christ’s is toppled
Monday September 23 2024, 11:00pm. Christ’s long-standing dominance as the highest-achieving Cambridge college has ended with Trinity taking the top spot, according to the 2024 Tompkins Table. The table, established in 1981 by then-mathematics student Peter Tompkins, ranks each college according to the exam performance of its undergraduates.
A Room of One’s Own: the best student rooms in Cambridge
Oct 28, 2022 · In this room, you are clearly best placed to spy all of Cambridge’s happenings. Newnham: The “Princess” Room. The view from the room Zaynab Khan. The mythic “Princess Room” is straight out of Romeo and Juliet. It took some time ascertaining whether this title actually referred to a real room or was a product of some English student ...
Boaties and BCDs: inside Cambridge rowing culture | Varsity
Feb 21, 2024 · Boaties and BCDs: inside Cambridge rowing culture. 6am alarms, blistered hands, and intense training regimens: what keeps Cambridge’s rowers in the boat? Sidney Sussex W1 take an irregular route down King's iconic Backs Adam Ashworth & Heidi Francis with permission for Varsity. by Gemini McKee. Wednesday February 21 2024, 1:14pm.
Cambridge to scrap state school targets | Varsity - Varsity Online
Mar 11, 2024 · Cambridge University is set to scrap state school admissions targets in its latest access plan, Varsity can reveal. In an online open meeting held on 4th March, Cambridge University representatives stated that “there’s no proposal to have a formal target against school type” for its future Access and Participation Plan (APP).. The decision has been taken by the University due to shifting ...
Cambridge University on thin ice in world sustainability rankings
Friday January 19 2024, 1:10am. The University of Cambridge has fallen 105 places in twelve months in global university sustainability rankings, to 124th place. The 2024 rankings, released in December, show a dramatic fall from Cambridge’s 2023 position of 19th. It is also significantly lower than their overall QS world rankings, in which ...
Write for Varsity this Michaelmas | Varsity
Jul 15, 2024 · Applications to join Varsity’s writing team in Michaelmas 2024 are now open.Now is the time to take your place at the beating heart of Cambridge’s current discourse and history. Varsity is the oldest and only independent student newspaper in Cambridge, and one of only three in the UK. We hold institutions to account, representing the interests of students with integrity, ambition, and a ...