Category Archives: Academics

As academic and academic-related staff at the University of Cambridge, we condemn the decision by Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz to reject two amendments to the University Council’s Grace on tuition fees on the unreasonable grounds that they are ‘incompatible with the main purpose’ of the original Grace. Neither amendment contradicts the main purpose of the Grace, which is to raise tuition fees to the highest level possible. Continue reading →

There will be a Discussion in the Senate House, on Tuesday, 8 March, at 2 p.m., on the following ‘topic of concern to the University’: “The failure to allow Discussion of Council’s case for charging the maximum undergraduate tuition fee … Continue reading →

Flysheet for publication with the Council’s Grace on proposed arrangements for the University Composition Fee for UK and EU undergraduates from 1 September 2012 (Reporter, 23 February 2011). In its statement published in the Reporter on 23 February 2011, the … Continue reading →

CACHE–CAMBRIDGE ACADEMIC CAMPAIGN FOR HIGHER EDUCATION– is a campaigning group of academics and members of the Regent House who have come together to address the challenges posed by the ongoing attacks on British universities and university funding. Huge cuts in … Continue reading →

The Vice-Chancellor has issued the following statement on the occupation of the University Combination Room. One of the academic supporters has written the following remixed version

Statement of the Emperor Nero on the Occupation of the Vomitorium Continue reading →