University of Cambridge

Supportive voices petition Cambridge authority over massive property deal. John Morgan reports

The University of Cambridge has become the latest higher education institution to raise private finance for building projects, announcing the issue of a £350 million bond.

The University of Cambridge has taken a step closer to borrowing millions of pounds on the bond markets after US ratings agency Moody's gave it an AAA credit rating.

Planning permission for a £1 billion development by the University of Cambridge has been granted.

Oxford loses out in THE Table of Tables as Soas makes way for new blood. Jack Grove reports

Economic benefits are 'by-products' of teaching and research, says Sir Leszek. Elizabeth Gibney writes

An alternative examination to A levels is gaining a foothold in state schools, its creators claim.

David Willetts has declined to offer any support to a University of Cambridge student who was suspended for two and a half years for heckling him.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is to step down at the end of the year to become the head of a University of Cambridge college, it has been announced.

The University of Hong Kong and the University of Cambridge have struck up a new partnership to recruit engineering students from mainland China.

David Willetts was forced to call off a lecture yesterday evening after the event he was due to speak at was disrupted by student protesters.

The head of outreach programmes at the University of Cambridge has said that students at the institution are "appreciably better" than they were 20 years ago.

Former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville has been elected chancellor of the University of Cambridge after receiving more than half the votes in a ballot of members of the institution’s senate.

The government has come in for fierce criticism from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in strongly-worded submissions to the White Paper consultation.

Newer universities in London have enjoyed some of the biggest gains in student satisfaction, according to the results of the National Student Survey.

A vote by the University of Cambridge’s governing “parliament” over whether to back a motion of no confidence in universities minister David Willetts has ended in a dead heat.

Exeter posts a jump as the ancients vie for top honours again this year. Sarah Cunnane reports

The University of Cambridge has set up its own small grants scheme for research in the arts, humanities and social sciences following the decision by two bodies to end similar programmes at the national level.

A campaign for a nationwide vote of “no confidence” in the government’s higher education reforms has been launched by a group of academics and students at the University of Oxford.

The University of Cambridge increased its proportional intake from state schools and colleges last year, but only 16 of all successful UK applicants were black.

Deficit of £30m forecast even as non-EU fees take second 10% rise in a row, writes Simon Baker

Students at the University of Cambridge have reacted with anger after the vice-chancellor blocked an attempt by about 150 academics to change the terms of a vote over whether to allow the institution to set tuition fees at £9,000 a year.

Senior academics at the University of Cambridge will rethink a proposal to create a large tuition fee waiver for poor students by slashing bursaries after arguments against the plan were heard by the institution’s governing council.

But its proposal to reduce bursaries is criticised for aiding Treasury, not students. Simon Baker reports

Tuition fee levels at the University of Cambridge should be set at £9,000 from 2012-13, but students from the poorest backgrounds should be given a £3,000 discount, according to a draft report seen by Times Higher Education.

Scholar predicts change as university history prompts reflection. Melanie Newman reports