Cambridge teaching for adult learners enters cyberspace
04 September 2006Adult learners are to be given the chance to study everything from climate change to ancient Rome online with the University of Cambridge, starting this...
Coastal communities face greater threat of flooding due to land reclamation
01 September 2006Seafront communities are being left wide open to the risk of flooding because of the loss of coastal ecosystems, a Cambridge academic has warned.
Cambridge and Oxford capture Seabright Cup in first battle on home turf
30 August 2006Cambridge and Oxford have enjoyed their first victory for six years in a transatlantic student tennis competition, played out against opponents from Harvard and Yale.
You've got your exam results. What next?
16 August 2006Clearing 2006: Please note The University of Cambridge has NO COURSE VACANCIES through Clearing. Further information about Clearing is available from the UCAS website.
Women off the sidelines in time-honoured tennis tour
09 August 2006For the first time ever, women are joining their male counterparts on an 85-year-old tennis tour that climaxes in a showdown between Cambridge/Oxford and Harvard/Yale.
Researchers appeal for new regulations to save coral reefs from live fish trade
04 August 2006Researchers are calling for tighter controls on the live reef fish trade, a growing threat to coral reefs, in letters to the international journal Science.
Cambridge scholar makes rare 30,000-year-old find.
01 August 2006Archaeologists have unearthed a pair of bone fragments dating back almost 30,000 years and featuring minute designs carved by some of our earliest European ancestors.
Speaking in China
17 July 2006Professor Ian Leslie from the University of Cambridge has spoken as Britain's only representative at a major international conference of university delegates in China.
Botanic dinosaurs arrive at Cambridge Botanic Garden
17 July 2006Two specimens of one of the world’s oldest and rarest plants, dating back to the time of the dinosaurs, are now on view at the...
Wild meerkats school their young
14 July 2006Older meerkats teach younger meerkats how to handle prey.