April O’Neill warns that if maintenance grants apply only to certain ‘industrial’ courses than more disadvantaged students will turn away from the arts
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino argues that we need to remember that Cambridge is not solely a university town when complaining about A-level students in our libraries
COMMENT
Daisy Hewitt
The magic of an eight-week term
Daisy Hewitt argues that our eight-week terms are an essential component of the Cambridge experience
Kit Roberts
Forget AI, we need to start talking about quantum
Kit Roberts warns students that the AI debate could be overshadowing a more interesting, and influential, technological advancement
Daisy Hewitt
Stop pretending you’re not privileged
Head to Head
Surely it’s time to scrap scholars’ dinners?
Calum Murray
Cambridge is woke – that’s no bad thing
Daisy Hewitt
Cambridge can’t beat AI
Joshua Prince
Don’t get lost in the Bermuda Triangle of job hunting
Amelie Rothwell
Confidence isn’t earned, it’s bought
Nessa Yip
AI isn’t worth the environmental costs
Olive Watt
Anti-trans societies won’t make women safer
Wilf Vall
Time to slow down the rat race
Wilf Vall calls for calm amid the rush for a graduate job
Jasper Finlay Burnside and Duncan Paterson
Reformed ideas: should we encourage a Reform UK society?
Jasper Finlay Burnside and Duncan Paterson clash over a potential Reform UK society
Alex Rutter
Be mindful of non-students in your societies
April O'Neill
Stop relying on your bedder
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Have we forgotten how to empathise?
Duncan Paterson
The conflict of interest at the heart of Cambridge academia
Nessa Yip
Young people don’t like your online political campaigns
Abril Duarte González
On overcoming the freshers’ curse
Remy Rushbrooke
Nathan Cofnas shouldn’t be silenced
Joshua Prince
Cambridge should lose the Boat Race
Head to Head
Welfare workshops are broken
Daisy Stewart Henderson and Duncan Paterson clash over how to fix this Freshers’ Week staple
April O'Neill
Where’s the money for ‘Mickey Mouse’?
April O’Neill warns that if maintenance grants apply only to certain ‘industrial’ courses than more disadvantaged students will turn away from the arts
Talia Jacobs
It’s not my fault I was followed home
Bibi Boyce
Bonnie Blue is the enemy, not the face, of female liberation
Jamilla Wichmann
Open-mindedness is a British value
Elena Buermann
Flying the flag, properly
Duncan Paterson
When colleges raise rents, everybody loses
April O'Neill
Cambridge needs a proper Freshers’ Week
Head to Head
Should Cambridge be investing in programmes over people?
Ellana Cowan
Let’s bring back masks
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Find people in Cambridge you disagree with
Daisy Stewart Henderson argues that one of the most important lessons we learn at Cambridge is how to disagree
Jasper Finlay Burnside
The protestable state of protest
Jasper Finlay Burnside argues that our right to protest is being quietly dismantled
Remy Rushbrooke
Leave no stone unturned
Kit Roberts
Dear finalists, please have fun
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino
Travelling to Trump’s America
Alex Rutter
Why UCLS are not just another protest group
Joshua Prince
Cambridge South is right to be ambitious
Emy Bengtsson
Cambridge’s culture of anonymous complaint
Comment
A fleshy realisation
Gabrielle Saraway
I think I…like myself?
Katie Nicholson
The reality of the Tompkins Table rankings
Katie Nicholson rebuts claims that the Tompkins Table is obsolete, instead arguing that the problem lies in its reception
Jamilla Wichmann
Why do we need to glow up?
Jamilla Wichmann argues that the social media trend of the ‘glow up’ has a particularly harmful effect on Cambridge students
Comment
My problem with the year abroad
Ellana Cowan
Cambridge needs to reach out to disabled students
Comment
Who could possibly want more exams?
Ben Curtis
Time’s up for the Tompkins Table
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Yes, I love Britain
Jasper Finlay Burnside
A plague on your new-build houses
April O'Neill
Put an end to the unpaid internship
Charlie Rowan
Oxford wins the ceremonial Varsity
Katie Nicholson
Supervisions are about more than teaching
Katie Nicholson weighs up the pros and cons of the supervision system
Elsie McDowell
What the civil service has got wrong about class
Elsie McDowell argues that the Civil Service’s new class-based internship is widening access done wrong
Katie Nicholson
Are degrees still worth it?
Daisy Stewart Henderson
I stand by my sixteen-year-old self’s vote
Ben Lubitsh
Stop disarming people of their nuance
Ben Curtis
The next Chancellor has their work cut out for them
Jamilla Wichmann
What is originality, anyway?
Jasper Finlay Burnside
Where is the humanity in our politics?
Bernard Shiu
It’s not just Trump who’s after international students
Tia Ribbo
So, what are you up to this summer?
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino
Why shouldn’t we share our libraries with A-level students?
Sophia Bosworth-Gerbino argues that we need to remember that Cambridge is not solely a university town when complaining about A-level students in our libraries
Ben Lubitsh
No platform, no progress
Ben Lubitsh argues that deplatforming controversial figures such as Charlie Kirk would be a step backwards
Jack Deasley
Good riddance to exam rankings
Greg Quinn
May Week isn’t going anywhere
Maddy Browne
Open(ing up about) AI
head to head
All aboard the Varsity line?
April O'Neill
Cambridge students need to resurrect the rave
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Why Cambridge needs college chapels
Katie Nicholson
The importance of student protests isn’t up for debate
Olive Watt
Labour is betraying disabled people
Calum Murray
Is Cambridge really accessible?
Students from working class backgrounds discuss the remaining barriers to inclusion at Cambridge
Anonymous student
There must be more to the sciences than exams
An anonymous student warns that, if STEM students are to flourish, their courses must be about more than cramming
Maddie Harding
Keir Starmer’s ‘New Deal’ era?
Ffion Edwards
Not all state schools are made equal
Katie Nicholson
Impostor syndrome isn’t a rite of passage
April O'Neill
Are college-mandated quiet periods more harm than good?
Martha Rayner
The lies we tell prospective students
Katie Nicholson
Lectures are optional so give us the recordings
Jasper Finlay Burnside
What Scotland can teach us about Reform’s coming wave
Katie Nicholson
The case for reading weeks
Chiraag Shah
Is networking dead?
Chiraag Shah argues that a Cambridge student’s networking skills are still relevant in the world of work
Johana Trejtnar
Why Cambridge debates matter
Johanna Trejtnar explores how Cambridge voices travel far beyond the UK’s borders
Luca Chandler
How colleges shape the way we see the world
Dylan Stewart
Pope Francis helped young people reconnect with the Church
Evie McMahon
Pick an exam format and stick to it
Luca Chandler
Multiculturalism is under fire
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Cambridge has its own toxic masculinity
Maddy Browne
Cambridge builds up the housing crisis
Jake Altmann
Does the AI revolution render coursework obsolete?
Gabrielle Lee
Cambridge students are too opinionated
Martha Rayner
Cambridge’s tourism risks commodifying students
The city’s tourism both benefits and commodifies students, argues Martha Rayner
Patrick Dolan
The Cambridge workload prioritises quantity over quality
Patrick Dolan argues that a year abroad provides a space for academic reflection that Cambridge often lacks
Ellie Buckley
We have a fixation with tracking ourselves
Madeleine Wood
Death of the June Event?
Yashraj Garg
Cambridge’s gossip culture is a double-edged sword
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Cambridge can’t train public servants
Ffion Edwards
More Cambridge students should study abroad
Johana Trejtnar
Cambridge’s spaces still bear the past’s misogyny
Varsity Comment
‘We’ have always been here
Jess Standring
Times up for exploitative porn
Chiraag Shah
Cambridge is in a public transport crisis
Cambridge’s lacklustre public transport system is representative of the city’s deeper issues with inequality
Maddie Harding
Why international aid matters
Maddie Harding argues that Labour’s decision to cut aid funding will have disasterous consequences
Maddy Browne
Flying the Pride flag is only the first step
Nick Davis
Cambridge is a masterclass in nostalgia
Letters
Letters to the Editors
Martha Rayner
Bring back unsexy activism
Rosie Roberts
Are May Balls worth their budgets?
Duncan Paterson
Weekly essays don’t do justice to important topics
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Why I’m not a girlboss
Hattie Holford-Smith
We should all be able to Access-a-Ball
Daisy Hewitt
How a culture of knowing shapes the Cambridge application process
The insider knowledge that some schools possess threatens the meritocracy of the Cambridge system
Daisy Stewart Henderson
Why we should teach Latin in state schools
Teaching Latin in state schools helps to combat a privileged monopoly on ‘impractical’ learning
Letters
Letters to the Editors
Elsie McDowell
What colleges can learn from international relations
Nicole Banas
Do you know your housekeeper’s name?
Daisy Hewitt
The University must get to grips with gender attainment gaps
Evie McMahon
Why you should keep (either side of) term
Johana Trejtnar
How to breathe new life into Cambridge’s chapels
Erin McGurk
There is a hypocrisy of tolerance here at Cambridge
Rosie Roberts
Our lives shouldn’t be products
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