News and Events
Media coverage
The News Centre brings together various information sources for the media. As well as all the latest press releases from the University, you will find briefings on issues such as access and teaching quality and our online guide to Cambridge experts.
Journalists seeking further information about the University can contact the Office of External Affairs and Communications at:
- Telephone: +44 1223 332300
- Fax: +44 1223 330262
- Email: communications@admin.cam.ac.uk
Latest media coverage
Weekly archive from Monday 3rd September 2007
Monday 3rd September
Overseas beckons for education companies seeking to cash in (Financial Times)
Several of the country's most famous private schools have set up franchises abroad in the search for new
opportunities
Other headlines:
The sisterhood rules (The Mail on Sunday) - Blood-flow detector software show promise in preventing brain damage (Science
Daily) - A wiggle in her walk? That's what Veet likes (The Guardian) - A position even harder to defend (The Northern Echo) -
'Robot thinking' puts City firm in fast lane (Cambridge Evening News) - Ad man makes an emotional appeal (Financial Times) -
Scientists worry about arsenic in water (United Press International)
Tuesday 4th September
'Clearest' images taken of space (BBC News)
A team of astronomers from the US and the UK has obtained some of the clearest pictures from space ever taken
Other headlines:
That's lucky: Earth camera outdoes its stellar rival with sharpest pictures (The Times) - Stars shine brightly in new images
(The Press Association) - A team of astronomers from the US and the UK has obtained some of the clearest pictures from space
ever taken - Digital system takes clearest images of space (ABC News) - Financial boost for museums (Cambridge Evening News)
- Help wanted: A pall of gloom lies over the vital system of peer review. (The Guardian) - Science should be 'as exciting as
science-fiction' says Hawking (AFP) - Science weekly for September (The Guardian)
Other coverage: Dr Craig Mackay, Lucky Camera takes sharpest ever images of stars, BBC News 24 (including 1pm and 6pm news
bulletins), Radio 4 news at 6pm and Radio Five Live (03 September 2007)
Wednesday 5th September
A model immigrant, betrayed by Britain
(The Independent)
Damilola Ajagbonna, who was offered a place at Cambridge University, is being removed to Nigeria because he was six weeks
late claiming British citizenship.
Other headlines:
- Students offer rape counselling (BBC News)
- New help for rape victims (Cambridge Evening News)
- Young pupils enjoy the taste of university life (Cambridge Evening News)
- Religious pioneer dies at 96 (Cambridge Evening News)
- Photo in the news: Sharpest ever space pictures taken (National Geographic News)
Thursday 6th September
Access initiatives miss mark
(THES)
Pat Bricheno of Cambridge University will present a paper criticising the lack of evidence behind initiatives to widen access
and retain students.
Other headlines:
- Tests "show ability" (THES)
- Pupils risk headaches "because of florescent lights" (The Daily Telegraph)
- A-level choice (The Independent)
- The insider: Judge Business School (The Times)
- Manchester University to set up fund aimed at research investment (Financial Times)
- Hundreds set to take on The Gap in charity walk (Cambridge Evening News)
Friday 7th September
Labour specialist schools fail to raise standards
(The Daily Telegraph)
A study by academics at Cambridge University shows that the "specialist schools", which receive extra funding to champion
particular subjects, are no more effective than other state schools.
Other headlines:
- Specialist schools "not better" (BBC News)
- Specialist schools "are no better than comprehensives" (Daily Mail)
- Paxman challenged after series of errors on student quiz show (The Independent)
- Vicar's lot: "An unchristian envy, unruly flock and disgruntled don" (The Guardian)
- Why Huntington's disease in on the rise (New Scientist)
- Quest for a cure (The Times)
- Straight A St Columb's College trio prepare to study at Cambridge (Belfast Telegraph)
- Of gorillas, dinosaurs and big companies (Cambridge Evening News)
