Trinity backtracks on divestment | Varsity
“In 2024 Trinity donated £150,000 to the Rowan Williams Cambridge Studentship programme. This increases the support available for those students from conflict zones and areas of instability, including in the Middle East, as well as those subjected to or at risk of discrimination, persecution, suffering, violence or other abuse of their human rights.
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Pro-Palestine protesters occupy Greenwich House | Varsity
Nov 22, 2024 · Following the University’s promise to review arms investments, C4P agreed to dismantle in early August, but has continued to hold pro-Palestine protests, with the most recent rally condemning COP29 held in Baku, Azerbaijan.. Greenwich House, where the University’s finance, research operations, and public relations offices are located, has previously been occupied by climate activists in 2018.
Trinity tops 2024 Tompkins Table as Christ’s is toppled
Sep 23, 2024 · The Tompkins Table is not wholly popular in Cambridge, and is not published officially by the University. In 2018, the Students’ Union denounced the table’s methodology, which it said reflects “the worst of the academic culture here in Cambridge”.. This year’s Tompkins Table was published in the Sunday Times 2025 Good University Guide, which ranked Cambridge as the UK’s fourth-best ...
Trinity set to sell O2 Arena lease | Varsity
Nov 23, 2024 · Trinity College is putting the long-term lease of London’s O2 Arena up for sale after acquiring the site 15 years ago, according to Sky News.. Sky News reported the College has instructed property advisers to initiate the selling of the asset and sound out prospective investors. It is currently unclear what has prompted the move.
Pro-Palestine protesters claim ‘liberated zone’ in occupied …
Nov 23, 2024 · Speakers at the protest also criticised Tilly Franklin, the University’s Chief Investment Officer. Cambridge for Palestine’s first encampment was set up outside King’s College in May. Though students agreed to dismantle the camp in July, the group have held frequent protests against the University this term.
Cambridge ranked fifth in The Times World University Rankings
Oct 11, 2024 · Times University rankings focus on research, percentage of international students and teaching. While Cambridge came fifth, they have significantly more students per staff member than Stanford or Yale, both of whom ranked lower than Cambridge this year.
English Faculty returns to handwritten exams following Inspera ...
Nov 22, 2024 · The English Faculty have announced all three parts of their undergraduate examinations will be handwritten this summer. The announcement comes almost a week after the Faculty produced its 2024/5 Information for Candidates (14/11) …
News in brief: royal visits and rabid waters | Varsity
Nov 12, 2024 · Varsity is the independent newspaper for the University of Cambridge, established in its current form in 1947. In order to maintain our editorial independence, our print newspaper and news website receives no funding from the University of Cambridge or …
News in brief: runners defeated while students told how to walk …
Dec 10, 2024 · This weekend Cambridge experienced winds of up to 56mph as Storm Darragh swept over the nation, causing festive events to be cancelled. The annual Mill Road Winter Fair, scheduled for Saturday 7 December, was called off by organisers in what they described as “a bitter disappointment and a huge financial blow” for local businesses.