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Cambridge University

Edinburgh and Cambridge scientists join forces on genetics research »

Scientists working together from the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge have conducted a four-month investigation into RNA viruses, an emerging string of viruses including HIV, SARS, and flu. Their data suggests that when viruses migrate to a dis...

Wed 19 Oct 2011 by Eilidh Dobson | Read more »

Beyond Edinburgh »

- A report on the prevention of hazing and a re-evaluation of the definition of such practices has been presented by the Committee of Hazing and Initiations at Yale University, Yale Daily News reports. The committee was appointed in January to look in...

Wed 04 May 2011 by Amanda Svensson Falk | Read more »

Beyond Edinburgh »

- Students at Uppsala University in Sweden had the opportunity to listen to the Israeli ambassador to Sweden, Benny Dagan, at a talk held on 24 February. The controversial speaker was there by invitation from the Foreign Politics Society, and emotions...

Wed 09 Mar 2011 by Amanda Svensson Falk | Read more »

Leading universities face research shortfall after English funding announced »

Some of England’s top universities look set to be forced into research cutbacks next year while newer institutions will see a marked rise in available funds, after individual budgets for all universities and colleges in England were published last week...

Mon 09 Mar 2009 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Cambridge cheats dob themselves in »

One in two Cambridge students admit to having committed some form of plagiarism in their university career. Of the 1000 students who responded to the online survey carried out by Cambridge‘s student newspaper, Varsity, 49 per cent admitted to p...

Sun 09 Nov 2008 by Laura Robertson | Read more »

Goodbye newspapers »

Goodbye newspapers; the plastic era is coming. The a student team at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory has revolutionised the world of media and communication with the development of the “e-paper”, an electronic version of ...

Sun 26 Oct 2008 by Francesco Cirillo | Read more »

Oxbridge: 'We are not social security offices' »

The Chancellor of Oxford University has claimed that students should be paying more despite an NUS survey revealing that the average student debt is set to rise to more than £20,000 by 2010. Lord Chris Patten has called for the government to abol...

Mon 13 Oct 2008 by Laura Robertson | Read more »

Cambridge announces further changes to admissions process »

From 2009, Cambridge University will no longer insist that applicants have a foreign language GCSE in a bid to attract more pupils from state schools. The move was announced only a month after the university took the decision to scrap its separate appl...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

£500 per essay: Cambridge students cash in on "cheating" »

Lack of both time and money has driven Cambridge University students to work for Oxbridge Essays, a company selling custom-written essays and dissertations. Although the university condemns the practice as "cheating", it remains an attractive...

Mon 05 Nov 2007 | Read more »