Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice has written an article for the Financial Times reflecting on the University’s role as a driver of economic growth, innovation and productivity far beyond the city and its surrounding region.
The University of Cambridge heads to COP28 in Dubai, UAE, with a film premiere and a host of higher education and research events.
Cambridge Zero programme prepares young climate leaders for the future
US voters who don’t trust universities are also more likely to believe that human activity doesn’t cause climate change, a new collaborative study from researchers at the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) revealed in PLOS Climate.
New research shows the gender gap in the teaching and study of economics is still dramatic and actually getting worse. Economists argue that this is not just a problem for the discipline, but for society as a whole.
A research project which asked University of Cambridge staff and students to describe their biggest hopes – and darkest fears – for post-pandemic higher education has found that many would support a permanent, but partial, shift to online learning.
Over 50 American universities built their fortunes using 11 million acres of Indian land, signed over amid violence, corruption and coercion. A major new study and website reveals how.
The conflict in Syria has left the country’s higher education system “fragmented and broken”, with universities suffering politicisation, militarisation and human rights violations including disappearances and murder, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge and Syrian academics in exile.
The University of Cambridge is working with partners across East Anglia to raise teenage aspirations in a region brimming with untapped potential.
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