The next Covid-19: why future pandemics are ‘a certainty’
Thursday October 10 2024, 10:00am. Prof Sir Chris Whitty has warned a future pandemic as big as Covid is “a certainty”. Given the widespread and devastating health, social and economic impacts of Covid, it is important that scientists have a detailed understanding of possible future threats. The World Health Organisation publishes an ...
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Cambridge University on thin ice in world sustainability rankings
Jan 19, 2024 — The University of Cambridge has fallen 105 places in twelve months in global university sustainability rankings, to 124th place. The 2024 rankings, released in December, show a dramatic fall from Cambridge’s 2023 position of 19th. It is also significantly lower than their overall QS world rankings, in which Cambridge ranks second in the world, only falling behind …
It’s time to rethink UK foreign language education - Varsity Online
Tuesday August 2 2022, 1:33pm. Language education in the UK is worrying: attainment levels are low, motivation to learn a foreign tongue is on the decline, and the languages available to learn in schools — typically limited to French, German, and Spanish — are not at all representative of Britain’s heavily diverse range of global trading ...
‘It’s a numbers game’: the August Reconsideration Pool
Feb 12, 2023 — This is attributed to the uncertainty of whether there would be space. “It felt like a numbers game,” explains Sam. “The [low] probability of them having spaces made it less stressful.”. Accessibility to spaces within the pool relies on January offer-holders missing their offers. When their course was available through the pool ...
What’s so appealing about the Cambridge Blue? - Varsity Online
Sep 23, 2023 — What is a “Blue”? A Blue is the highest honour that can be earned by a Cambridge athlete, most often through participating in a Varsity match or race against the University of Oxford. The full Blue is the most prestigious award, but athletes can also be awarded the half-Blue or second team colours for other levels of achievement.
Get your name in print: write for Varsity - Varsity Online
Aug 1, 2022 — Get your name in print: write for Varsity Uncover the story, satirise Cambridge, present the podcast. There’s plenty of ways to get involved next term
Number of EU students at UK universities halves post-Brexit
Friday October 15 2021, 12:00am. Universities have found that the number of students from the EU has decreased by 50%, with figures from the UCAS showing a 43% drop in applications from EU students compared to last year.
News | Varsity
News in brief: posh paper and groovy graffiti. A light-hearted round-up of Cambridge news from the past week, from truck driving professors to a famous former Clare student. 1 October 2024.
Pro-VC: Climate anxiety behind campus mental health crisis
Feb 9, 2023 — Pro-VC: Climate anxiety behind campus mental health crisis Prof Bhaskar Vira, the pro vice-chancellor for education, discusses the University’s student mental health plan 2022-2025