Labour’s proposed policy to add 20% value-added tax to private school fees has been a major party talking point and headline ahead of the UK’s general election on 4 July. Currently, about 30% of Cambridge students were privately educated, but it is debatable how much the potential VAT introduction on private schools would affect university admissions.

Rena Rawanchaikul investigates why so many Cambridge students are drawn to consulting, and how privilege interacts with firms’ recruitment processes to reinforce the ‘Cambridge-consulting pipeline.’

The accusation comes from a new Uyghur Rights campaign launched by Cambridge University Amnesty International Society who point to continued links between China and the university.

Huge numbers of donations to universities remain completely anonymous with many fearing the ramifications of this lack of transparency.

Amid growing pressure, the university may be forced to break from this historical banking partner

Suchir Salhan investigates the gender gap in STEM Triposes, which Murray Edwards President, Dorothy Byrne, has condemned.

Investigation finds that almost three quarters of the universities examined bank with Barclays, Europe’s biggest financier of oil and gas, despite public commitments to divest from fossil fuels.

XR is calling for the university to “cut all ties” with the company.

“Things were made worse by the very organisation that was meant to help” 

February will see more working days with strike action taking place than without