Academics vote down climate pro-vice-chancellor proposals
WEBJan 26, 2024 · Cambridge academics have struck down proposals for a new pro-vice-chancellor to lead the University’s climate strategy. The defeat of the plans comes as 150 academics have tabled a motion to veto all new funded collaborations between the University and the fossil fuel industry.. 53% of voting academics balloted against the plans for a sixth pro-vice-chancellor (PVC), who would have been ...
Tompkins Table 2022: the resurrection of Christ’s | Varsity
WEBSaturday September 10 2022, 5:08pm. Christ’s College has topped the 2022 Tompkins Table with a commanding lead once again. With 46.10% of its undergraduates receiving firsts – a 2.1% increase since the last edition of the Table was published – Christ’s have maintained their string of first-place finishes since 2018.
A masterful remastering: Will Wood’s The New Normal! | Varsity
WEBAug 27, 2024 · Ultimately, the remaster of The Normal Album as The New Normal! is more than just revisiting an audio, it’s a re-contextualisation of the original work. By refining the technical elements without compromising the album’s emotional core, Will Wood has created something that feels both familiar and new — a fresh lens through which to hear an already intricate and layered piece of art.
Plagiarising professor stays in post and threatens student journalists
WEBFriday September 29 2023, 12:23pm. A Cambridge professor resorted to legal threats and lies to stop this newspaper from publishing details of a University investigation which upheld a complaint that he plagiarised his student’s essays. Dr William O’Reilly, an associate professor in early modern history, threatened Varsity with legal action ...
MASH Cambridge: Fez refurbished to create new nightclub
WEBApr 5, 2021 · A new nightclub, ‘MASH Cambridge’, will be opening in the refurbished building of Fez nightclub later this year.. The club’s building boasts a “vastly improved dancefloor area” and will be offering table service alongside this. The nightclub is built on the ethos "that a corporate one-size-fits-all approach to the music industry is the downfall of many a venue" and prides itself on ...
Second phase of Oxford-Cambridge train line on track | Varsity
WEBThursday August 2 2018, 5:58pm. The next stage of reopening the ‘Varsity Line’ – connecting Oxford and Cambridge by train – is set to begin, with plans to build the second phase submitted to the UK government. Officially known as the East-West rail scheme, the ‘Varsity Line’ is scheduled to be completed by the mid-2020s and, with ...
Classics students launch campaign against exam ‘incompetence’
WEBTuesday June 25 2024, 5:31pm. Students have accused the Classics faculty of causing “anger” over “mistakes and disorganisation” this year’s exams in an open letter campaign. The letter claims that exam organisers of the IB papers handed multiple students the wrong papers, which had frequent editing errors as well as passages from past ...
Daniel Zeichner re-elected as Cambridge MP | Varsity
WEBJul 5, 2024 · Daniel Zeichner has retained his Cambridge seat in the General election. Zeichner, the Shadow Secretary of State for Farming, won the seat for Labour by 11,078 votes, fending off the Liberal Democrats’ Cheney Payne in second place. This came as the Labour Party made sweeping gains across the country, winning over 400 seats in …
The six charts that explain Cambridge’s latest admissions figures
WEBMay 12, 2018 · Success rates for black applicants in 2017 improved on 2016 figures, where black students saw a 12.9% success rate, compared to success rates of 33.6% for Chinese applicants, 29.9% for Indian applicants, and 28.1% for White applicants. 2016 had also marked the first time on record that Cambridge accepted more black men than Etonians into ...
Catz and King’s announce new college heads | Varsity
WEBFeb 9, 2023 · Both Sir John Benger and Gillian Tett will take up their new positions in October 2023 UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/King's College. St Catharine’s College and King’s College have appointed their new master and provost respectively, with Sir John Benger being elected as the new master of St Catharine’s College, …