They call it imposter syndrome: it’s the heart-sinking feeling you get when you feel that the people around you have quite the wrong idea about you. For example that you are incredibly brainy like them when you have not a single intelligent thought in your head and want to bolt for home.
Universities’ adult education courses are too focused on developing economic and technical skills, rather than on forming rounded, socially informed individuals, a leading educationalist will tell a major international conference on the history of higher education.
Cambridge University graduate Emma Pooley stormed to Olympic Silver in Beijing yesterday during the Cycling Time Trial.
Six Cambridge academics have been made Fellows of the British Academy in the latest round of elections to the prestigious organisation for scholars in the arts and humanities.
A new study of the 14th-century narrative poem Libro de Buen Amor explores how its earthy tales of failed love are shaped by humour.
Professor Sir Robert Honeycombe, one of Cambridge's most distinguished metallurgists, died in 2007 at the age of 86.
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