Tag: Cambridge

Thousands of people lined the River Thames between Putney and Mortlake to watch Cambridge win the 165th Men’s Boat Race with a time of 16 minutes 54 seconds. This takes them to their third win in the last five years, with a well-fought victory of just over a length. With the river tides having strengthened […]

Cambridge has comfortably won the 74th annual Women’s Boat Race following on from their victory last year. This takes the total wins to 44-30 in Cambridge’s favour and is their third victory in a row. Both boats started well, but Cambridge was able to quickly eke out an advantage after a powerful start. The gap […]

Oxford Ladies – Hannah Li Last week, golfers descended upon Camber, East Sussex to face down Cambridge. Rye golf course, the original home of the Varsity match, rose to expectations as a test of verve, endurance, and skill that one could hope to enjoy from a fine Harry Colt designed links course. Come lunchtime on […]

Image Credit: Twitter Last week, a news story caused shockwaves on Twitter, titled ‘Cambridge students reject Remembrance Day’. That’s just one article, but if you Google it, you’ll see about seven with near-identical wording, all from moderate to far-right-wing papers. Here’s the thing, though. This phrasing is extremely misleading. So what actually happened? A group of […]

Images courtesy of Sports Team/Nice Swan Records/Holm Front Records. Description: indie sextet Sports Team, posing. By the time I meet up with Sports Team at the Cowley Retreat ahead of their last support slot on tour with the Magic Gang, they have only been professional musicians for two months. That these bunch of Cambridge graduates […]

Image Credit: Tom Davidson/Varsity Ski (Used with Permission) The organisers of the Varsity Ski trip have announced the ski races that will take place at this year’s Varsity trip in Val Thorens-The Snow Games. The primary focus of the Games is on the Blues’ Races, where three male and female teams from each University battle […]

Image Credit: Department for Transport/Oxford Mail The Government’s preferred option for the new Oxford to Cambridge road link has been announced. The new expressway, or dual carriageway, aims to provide a direct road link between Oxford and Cambridge via Milton Keynes, connecting what a report by Highways England calls “some of the UK’s most successful, […]

In one word? Sweaty. Time for a swim. If there’s any place to go to brook the roast of that insidious beast popularly known as ‘ The Heatwave’, then it’s the breezy shores of Margate, Kent. Yelling at me neck-deep in water and in-between breast strokes is Alex Rice, singer of ‘up-and-coming’ indie band Sports Team. Having been […]

Image Credit: Dtcdthingy (CC BY-SA 3.0) Plans for the next stage of the re-opening of the Oxford to Cambridge Varsity line have been submitted to the Government. The line, more formally known as the East-West rail scheme, is scheduled to open fully in the mid 2020s, replacing its former incarnation which closed in the 1960s. […]

Image Credit: Photo © Jonathan Billinger (cc-by-sa/2.0) It has been revealed that the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge collaborated in their responses to the Universities UK 2017 survey on the academics’ pensions. Universities UK (UUK) ran the survey on the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to review the way academics’ pensions are managed. One issue arising from the survey, […]

Oxford has been declared the best UK university, and fifth best in the world, in the new QS world rankings, compiled annually by global higher education analysts QS Quacquarelli Symonds. It has risen one place and exchanged position with Cambridge, which is now sixth. All of the top four places were claimed by US institutions; […]

A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), one of the UK’s leading higher education think tanks, has announced that undergraduate teaching at Oxbridge outperforms that at other UK universities in 12 different respects. It noted, in contrast, only three areas where Oxbridge was equal to or outperformed by its rivals. The report’s […]

Oxford University came in second place in the Guardian’s 2019 University league tables, beaten to the top spot by Cambridge University for the eighth consecutive year. Oxford received a score of 97.4, compared to Cambridge’s 100. Its next rival, St Andrews, was only a fifth of a point behind, on 97.2. It is the third year in […]

Oxford University has been placed fourth from the bottom of a new league table which measures how successful universities have been in increasing participation from students of all backgrounds. Cambridge University came last in the experimental “fair access” rankings, which were drawn up in a paper by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi). Also in […]

Oxford won both the men’s and women’s football Varsity matches today in what proved to be a successful day out for OUAFC. This is the fourth year in a row that Oxford have won both fixtures as they celebrated more success at The Hive, home of Barnet FC, following last year’s inaugural double-header at the […]

Cambridge has won both the women’s and men’s races in the 2018 Boat Race this afternoon, after winning both coin tosses. In the 73rd women’s boat race, Cambridge recorded a time of 19 minutes and 9 seconds, after a record-winning 18 minutes and 33 seconds in 2017. The men’s was closer, with a time of […]

The University Match, 4th day  Cambridge University 225 & 417-7dec beat Oxford University 212 & 214 (Gnodde 54, Crichard 6-68) by 216 runs  There are some bowlers who are hard to define: the type who defy the established science and the biomechanics of cricket. Sometimes they’re off, disjointed and sporadic. Sometimes they’re on, and wicket-taking […]

The University Match, 3rd day  Oxford University 212 & 49-0 (Hughes 28*) trail Cambridge University 225 & 417-7dec (Dewhurst 91, Moses 80*) by 381 runs  The first over of the day was bowled by the leg-spin of Dan Escott. Day one’s bowling carnival feels long and distant in the memory: as the pitch continues to […]

The University Match, 2nd day  Oxford University 212 (Rackow 95, Crichard 5-72) trail Cambridge University 225 & 121-2 (Colverd 47*) by 134 runs  A collective groan filled the Fenner’s air. Then it morphed to a silence imbued with disbelief. Then a final incarnation: lavish applause, genuine in origin and extended in length. Alex Rackow had […]