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Students make antibody keychains during a workshop with the MRC Toxicology Unit

Students from across the country get a taste of studying at Cambridge at the Cambridge Festival

27 Mar 2025

Over 500 KS2 and KS3 students from as far away as Warrington got the chance to experience studying at the University of Cambridge with a selection of...

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Kyle Hutchinson and Jess Burton.

Teacher wins award for encouraging pupil

14 May 2024

Teacher wins Educator's Award for encouraging pupil to apply for Foundation Year.

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Three Cambridge Colleges - Hughes Hall, St Edmund’s and Wolfson

Colleges for mature students launch Cambridge 21+

06 Apr 2022

When Olivia was asked by a teacher on her Access course “have you considered applying to Cambridge?” she thought it was some kind of joke.

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Students in a lecture

STEM SMART widening participation pilot will provide additional learning for hundreds of state school A-level students

01 Sep 2021

The University of Cambridge aims to support hundreds of UK state school students through their A-levels with enhanced learning, encouragement and...

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Professor Stephen J Toope, Vice-Chancellor

Vice-Chancellor's annual 1 October address to the University

01 Oct 2019

The Vice-Chancellor marked the start of the new academic year this morning by giving his annual address to the University in the Senate House.

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Can I pick your brains? A question of social mobility

06 Mar 2019

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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Sutton Trust

University marks association with social mobility charity

07 Aug 2018

This summer more than 500 teenagers from under-represented and disadvantaged backgrounds will have stayed at the University of Cambridge to learn...

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Current students via the Target Oxbridge programme

Supporting high-achieving black students

18 May 2017

The University is sponsoring Target Oxbridge, a free programme which aims to increase successful undergraduate applications from black students.

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A University of Cambridge outreach session in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.

Widening participation in higher education in East Anglia

08 Dec 2016

From January 2017, East Anglia’s five Higher Education Institutions, working in close partnership with the region’s Further Education Colleges and...

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Faculty launches new teaching resources for sixth-form mathematics

11 Jul 2016

Underground Mathematics is the culmination of a five-year project funded by the Government’s Department for Education and delivered by Cambridge’s...

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St John's College from the Kitchen Bridge. Photographer: Silas Hope.

Prospective students share their view of Cambridge

28 Apr 2016

Around 350 state school Year 12s and mature learners who took part in Cambridge University Students’ Union’s (CUSU) student-led Shadowing Scheme were...

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STIMULUS mentor, Alexander Simpson, with pupils at St Luke's Primary School, Cambridge.

Thirty years of maths support for local schools

07 Apr 2016

The University’s STIMULUS project has helped thousands of student volunteers to become teaching assistants in local schools.

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