Cole chooses Hermès over webmail

Supermodel Lily Cole is deferring entry to Cambridge University for a second year running in order to concentrate on her ever-strengthening modelling career.

Cole, who has featured in advertising campaigns for Chanel, Hermès and Accessorize among others, had been planning to study SPS at King’s this year. She has said in the past that the short Cambridge terms would be ideal for simultaneously pursuing her education and modelling career.

But offers of increasingly lucrative contracts appear to have outweighed her resolution to “fit everything else in around my studying” for the present. Cole maintains that she is not turning down her place at King’s, just deferring entry until October 2008.
Katherine Sirrell
 

Cambridge top in Sunday Times table for a decade

The Sunday Times have chosen Cambridge as the UK’s best university for the tenth year running, scoring a total of 995 points out of a possible 1000. Oxford followed in second place with 983 points, and LSE came third.

The league table ranks universities according to measures in several different performance areas, including student satisfaction, staff-student ratios and graduate prospects.

The university beat Oxford in five of the eight categories, including teaching excellence and research quality.
Camilla Temple

...and beats Oxford at the Monopoly board
Cambridge has taken the place of Oxford Street in a new version of the monopoly board released for sale on September 25.
The new game’s layout is the result of a competition by games giant Parker. More than one million people voted to earn their favourite city a place on the board.

The city is worth £3 million in the new Monopoly Here and Now UK Edition, beating Oxford’s selling price of £2.6 million. Cambridge appears in the prosperous green section alongside Nottingham and Sheffield, while Oxford takes the place of Coventry Street in the less affluent yellow section.
 Simon Allen