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University of Cambridge

August 2023

  • Dick Grove

    Other lives
    Dick Grove obituary

  • Olwen Williams, an ecologist, is helping in the battle to protect the Paradise nature reserve.

    Wildlife lovers fear for nature reserve threatened by Cambridge university building

July 2023

  • Stormzy with Drew Chateau (left) and Joseph Vambe (right), the first two students he put through Cambridge University

    Stormzy on hitting 30, politics and the kids he sent to university: ‘When I see these guys, I’m like, just fly, fly, fly’

    The rapper has gone from grime trailblazer to political figurehead, much to his bemusement. But will the dozens of Black students he’s put through Cambridge turn out to be his greatest legacy?
  • Jason Arday portrait in a warmly lit university library

    Black lives
    Jason Arday: he learned to talk at 11 and read at 18 – then became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor

    Diagnosed with autism as a child, Arday found his voice through speech therapy and his mother’s unflagging support. Now he is using it with the same tenacity that saw him run 30 marathons in 35 days
  • Robot Sophia at the AI For Good summit in Geneva on 6 July.

    Apocalypse not now? AI’s benefits may yet outweigh its very real dangers

    A new Cambridge University institute will try to harness the good and anticipate the bad effects of artificial intelligence

June 2023

  • Illustration: Mark Harris/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    The backlash: how slavery research came under fire – podcast

  • Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

    Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge explores founder’s slavery links

  • Embryonic stem cells

    Model embryo with heartbeat replicates cells in early pregnancy

  • Michael Gwinnell in 1969

    Other lives
    Michael Gwinnell obituary

  • Hever Castle to display 16th-century prayer book believed to be Thomas Cromwell’s from Holbein portrait

  • The long read
    The backlash: how slavery research came under fire

May 2023

  • The Heege Manuscript.

    ‘Mad and offensive’ texts shed light on the role played by minstrels in medieval society

    The Heege Manuscript which ‘pokes fun at everyone, high and low’ is among the earliest evidence of the life and work of a real minstrel
  • Frances Ryan

    Spare a thought for Britain’s new persecuted minority: the privately educated

    Frances Ryan
    They’re losing their grip on Oxbridge, and Labour threatens to strip elite schools of their charitable status. It just won’t do, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
  • Susan Drucker-Brown

    Other lives
    Susan Drucker-Brown obituary

    Other lives: Anthropologist whose work proved influential in studies of West African kingship

April 2023

  • John Wurr

    Other lives
    John Wurr obituary

    Other lives: Leading trad jazz clarinettist and saxophonist who spent the other half of his life as a computer and IT specialist
  • Jean Stafford Smith qualified as a pilot in 1970, believing that helicopters would soon replace cars

    Other lives
    Jean Stafford Smith obituary

    Other Lives: College admissions manager and amateur pilot
  • Reading University and Imperial College in last year’s University Challenge final.

    University Challenge was biased towards Oxbridge when I worked on it, and it still is. But there’s a fix

    Lillian Crawford
    A third of the teams competing come from just two universities. How can that not be elitist, asks freelance writer Lillian Crawford

March 2023

  • A high landscape view of Oxford.

    Fingers on buzzers… are Oxford and Cambridge students really the best?

    Letters: Jennifer Highwood and Prof David Thomas weigh in after Frank Coffield’s complaint that University Challenge favours Oxbridge entrants
  • Jeremy Paxman presenting an episode of University Challenge.

    Your starter for 10: is University Challenge biased towards Oxbridge?

    Letters: Frank Coffield argues that the BBC quiz show is rigged in favour of the two top universities. Plus letters from Joshua Loo and Elizabeth Swinbank
  • Oxford's Balliol College and Wolfson College, Cambridge in the University Challenge

    BBC accused of ‘hiding’ Oxbridge bias on University Challenge in deepening elitism row

    Corporation rejects freedom of information request from campaigner who claims show is ‘rigged’
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