Cambridge workloads can be not only excessive but ridiculously unbalanced, argues Omar Burhanuddin, and students will suffer the consequences in the long run
Matthew Taylor argues that if our ability to stay on top of things can be derailed by the slightest cold, then the university needs to change things up.
COMMENT
Opinion
Why we should all work a part-time job
Patrick Dolan argues that it’s time for Cambridge to foster a more holistic understanding of success
Opinion
Local investment plans must remember Cambridge is not just a uni
The Cambridge 2040 development plans will only exacerbate the divides in this already unequal city, argues Oscar Chatfield
Elsie McDowell
Does Lucy Cav need a billionaire bailout?
Hugh Jones
Greenwashing isn’t a problem
Matthew Taylor
Scrapping state school targets is playing a dangerous game
Ruby Cline
Remote learning is here to stay, whether we like it or not
Sam Hudson
The University is right to cut funding for private ADHD diagnoses
Joe Cowan
Darwin without a chance of Meat Balls
Omar Burhanuddin
UK universities are sacrificing widening access for foreign fees
Emily Kelly
Scrapping St John’s Voices is a step back for choral music
Chris Patel
(Don’t) stick to the status quo
By assigning ourselves just one ‘thing’ outside of our degree, we limit the richness of the uni experience
Omar Burhanuddin
I don’t have a degree to do next term!
Cambridge workloads can be not only excessive but ridiculously unbalanced, argues Omar Burhanuddin, and students will suffer the consequences in the long run
Ellie Robinson
What have we learned from Covid?
Patrick Dolan
Denying the existence of ADHD is deeply problematic
Maddy Browne
Prosecco socialism?
Sam Nicholson
When did a trip to the shop become so dystopian?
Alice Mainwood
Can Cambridge get International Women’s Day right?
Katie Heggs
Is this the end of (Union) democracy?
Calum Murray
The Gaza vote crisis reveals parliament’s deep dysfunction
Emily Kelly
How to solve Cambridge’s postgraduate housing crisis
Elsie McDowell
One u turn too far?
Labour must commit to tackling climate change, or risk losing the student vote
Matthew Taylor
A sick perspective on the workload problem
Matthew Taylor argues that if our ability to stay on top of things can be derailed by the slightest cold, then the university needs to change things up.
Ruby Cline
May Ball Committees, you’re not the new James Joyce
Maddy Browne
The power of words in queer relationships
Jack Deasley
The education system is broken – doing 28 A-levels won’t fix it
Maddy Browne
The trap of apathy and creating our own politics
Omar Burhanuddin
Cambridge has a racism problem, and we should be angry about it
Alex Parton-Turner
I do not consider myself a victim. The boy who stabbed me does
Ruby Cline
Cambridge has ruined our love languages
Katie Heggs
What an awful time to study politics!
Omar Burhanuddin
Do you listen to your college choir?
College chapel choirs are not archaic anachronisms, but offer valuable services, argues Omar Burhanuddin
Patrick Dolan
First-degree murder: how Cambridge killed my perfectionism
Patrick Dolan mourns the loss of yet another casualty to the Cambridge system: being perfect
Hugh Jones
In defence of selling out
Ruby Cline
Full-time work after university isn’t a gap year
Lauren Bird
Public elf Crisis?
Faye Harrison
Male students ‘can’t’ cook or clean, and I fear for the future
Hannah Mawardi
Pembroke gave me sesame three times. It’s time we start taking allergies seriously.
Will McLaughlin
SU meetings are just too boring
Lauren Bird
How Labour can mobilise the student vote
Matthew Taylor
Cambridge access schemes have become box-ticking exercises
Emily Kelly
Turing and the Typewriter
Although brutalist modern architecture can lack beauty, the new Turing sculpture should be welcomed, argues Emily Kelly
Maddy Browne
Graveyard Offices and Haunted Students
Employers must ensure hybrid working stays flexible for graduates
Matthew Taylor
The importance of making Cambridge home
Ruby Cline
Lent term isn’t so bad after all
Faye Harrison
Social smoking isn’t about image, it’s about community
Hugh Jones
Cambridge students don’t realise how lucky they are
Will McLaughlin
Cambridge student welfare has a bureaucracy problem
Miranda Evans
You’re a pseudo-intellectual, let Twitter be your soundboard
Maddy Browne
Student spaces are what we make of them
Omar Burhanuddin
The unspoken problems of small, central colleges
Emily Lawson-Todd
Fear and loathing in South Yorkshire
Last-minute spontaneity is all fun and games in Cambridge but, unless you live in London, that’s all gone over the holidays
Katie Heggs
Oxbridge is what you make of it
Tourists might argue over aesthetics, but for students it’s the memories that count
Patrick Dolan
In defence of our free will
Martha Dacombe
Progressives need something to say about the digital revolution
Esther Arthurson
Bring back that silent night
Maddy Browne.
How to queer your life when the government won’t
Aenghus Hughes
Abolish at-interview admissions assessments
Caitlin Rajan
The Myth of Perfect Consumption
Hannah Gillott
Let Cambridge drinking culture off the hook
Emily Lawson-Todd
Head-to-head: in person interviews
Hugh Jones
If Peterhouse is a charity, then so are private schools
Keir Starmer is right to have backed off private schools’ charity status, now he should back off VAT too
Hannah Gillott
What on earth is a ‘girl desk’?
Girl dinner, girl maths – and now ‘girl desk’. Hannah Gillott asks: when will it end?
Olive Watt
Section 28: 20 years since repeal, how much has really changed?
Aenghus Hughes
Is the return of David Cameron really what the nation needs?
Ezra Izer
When money talks too loudly…the case of ego-billionaires
Head to Head
Head to head: tripos rankings
Patrick Dolan
Cambridge puts the ‘late’ into ‘fashionably late’
Ezra Izer
The Cambridge cocktail: ethanol and elitism
Isabel Dempsey
Cambridge colleges have a clique problem
Heidi Atkins
SSRIs and I
Patrick Dolan
It’s not just week five when we’re feeling blue
As week five draws to a close, Patrick Dolan questions why ‘Week Five blues’ is put on such a pedestal here
Matthew Taylor
Does Lucy Cavendish’s egalitarian intake conceal an uglier truth?
Lucy Cavendish may have admitted over 90% of its students from state schools, but we still have a long way to go
Izzy Benardout Ezra Izer
Head to head: how to spend first year
Tom Moran
JCRs can be a force for good
Alice Mainwood
It’s ok not to know it all
Maddy Browne
It’s time for universities to shift money from the top
Lauren Cotter
The rise of the far right in British politics
Micheal Allan
Returning from intermission can be joyful
Aenghus Hughes
A Tale of two conferences
Emily Lawson-Todd
Head to head: Are Potter shops magic or tragic?
Daniel Hilton
You’re not an intellectual powerhouse, you’re a student with a Twitter account
The supervision system makes us feel as though we can debate everything and anything – but let’s not take that mindset to social media
Patrick Dolan
Cambridge is just London 2.0
From the lingo to the work opportunities, everything at this university seems to favour those from the big smoke
Lucia Quadrini
The myth of university rankings
Hugh Jones
How to fix the SU? Build a bar
Izzy Benardout
Prep weeks: what are they good for?
Martha Dacombe
Please can we all stop going on Hinge
Ziyana Kotadia
The living legacy of misogyny at Cambridge
Emily Lawson-Todd
Respect must go both ways
Izzy Benardout
Celebrating faith away from home
Head-to-Head
Freshers’ week: best week ever or severely overrated?
Hugh Jones
Open days must be less opaque
Following his experience at a Cambridge open day, Hugh Jones questions how transparent Cambridge really is
Suchir Salhan
Prentice must address Cambridge’s geopolitical crisis, rather than free speech
Suchir Salhan argues we should all be more concerned about the increasingly opaque links between Cambridge and foreign governments
Lauren Cotter
The public sector’s misogyny crisis
Liza Voloboeva
Is Cambridge really Cambridge?
Jude Crawley
Oops! They did it again
Anna Metzger
Climate criminals have no place in higher education
Hannah Gillott
The problem with the Great British scandal
Maddy Browne
What a return to Pride has reminded me about queer liberation
Naima Clarvis
The ironies of the Oxbridge summer school
Jude Crawley
Students should have the right to move away from home
Sophie Denny
Lucy Letby, an unlikely murderer?
The story of how the unconscious biases of Management at the Countess of Chester hospital inadvertently covered up a murderer
Aenghus Hughes
Meteoric rises of the Metro Mayors
The success of Metro Mayors across the country points towards the need for further devolution in the UK
Izzy Benardout
Maybe the MAB hasn’t been all that bad
Emily Lawson-Todd
Don’t diss the dissertation
Hugh Jones
Down with dissertations
Katie Heggs
A working girl’s guide to Cambridge summer
Isabel Dempsey
‘Keep off the grass’ is not really a sexist remark
Daniel Hilton
Don’t blame Ghose for ballot stuffing, blame Tory Britain
Katie Heggs
Barbieland or Kendom? Girlhood in Cambridge
Suchir Salhan
Sham graduations and the farce of provisional results
Emily Lawson-Todd
Student spaces are more important than colleges’ profits
If colleges want students to feel at home, they need to stop treating us like unwelcome guests, argues Emily Lawson-Todd
Famke Veenstra-Ashmore
The strikes make it harder to defend the humanities
Stalwart English apologist Famke Veenstra-Ashmore argues that defending arts degrees is tricky when you can’t even graduate with one
Aenghus Hughes
Glad to be History’s ‘guinea pig’
James Lewis
How to learn a language nobody wants to hear
Heidi Atkins
Breaking the spiking taboo
Ria Patel
Ignored and let down: being Deaf at Cambridge
Isabel Dempsey
Cambridge is a bubble-wrapped play set
Katie Heggs
Reflections on a year in student politics
Maia Livne
Notebook: Champagne and socialism in the Carolean age
Izzy Benardout
Notebook: A fresh(er’s) perspective on time in Cambridge
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