Office of External Affairs and Communications: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
Professor Stephen Toope became the 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, succeeding Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
He was formally admitted to the office of Vice-Chancellor at a ceremony held this morning in the University’s Senate House.
The new Vice-Chancellor was previously Director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. Between 2006 and 2014 he served as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia.
In his inaugural address to the University, Professor Toope, a Trinity College alumnus, said: “This day feels like a return to familiar ground: my time as a PhD student at Cambridge was personally rewarding and career-defining. What I learned then has stayed with me, and served me well, ever since. So I am thrilled to return to serve an institution from which I gained so much.”
In March 2010, the Human Resources Division ran three separate workshops for approximately 100 senior managers, asking them to offer ideas on the kinds of values, priorities and culture that the UAS should adopt in the months and years ahead. The workshops were made into a six-minute film, which was originally shown at the Registrary’s Open Staff Meeting in May. You can view the film here.
In her annual 1st October address, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Alison Richard called on the University to continue championing the enduring value of academic excellence, while focusing on the importance of institutional diversity and the need for public policy to encourage it.
From 17-19 January 2009, Senate House and Old Schools were lit up in a spectacular light show featuring some iconic images from the University's past and present, as well as some new drawings of two of our most famous alumni, produced by world-renowned illustrator and Downing College alumnus Quentin Blake.
From 17-19 January 2009, Senate House and Old Schools were lit up in a spectacular light show featuring some iconic images from the University's past and present, as well as some new drawings of two of our most famous alumni, produced by world-renowned illustrator and Downing College alumnus Quentin Blake.
For the launch of the University's 800th anniversary celebrations, churches in central Cambridge, and around the world rang in the year by ringing touches of 800 changes especially composed for the occasion by Clare College alumnus Phil Earis.
For the launch of the University's 800th anniversary celebrations, churches in central Cambridge, and around the world will be ringing in the year by ringing touches of 800 changes especially composed for the occasion by Clare College alumnus Phil Earis.
Cambridge University's leading thinkers delve beyond the headlines to show us what history, anthropology and even hormones can teach us about the credit crunch
Cambridge's centre of International Studies hosts a panel of speakers on European integration, including Michael Howard, former leader of the Conservative Party, Stephen Wall, author and former UK ambassador to the EU and Vince Cable of the Liberal Democrats, chaired by Dr Julie Smith, Deputy Director of the
Clifford Geertz talks of his childhood and education. He describes various important figures in American anthropology, and the influence of Weber. he describes his fieldwork in Indonesia and Morocco. He discusses what it is to be an anthropologist.
James Curran, professor of communications at Goldsmiths College and director of their media research programme, will argue that the role of the Democracy is being weakened by the global movement towards the American market-based, entertainment-centred model of television, encouraging American-style levels of political ignorance.
Professor Curran, co-author of "Power Without Responsibility", one of the main texts for journalism students in the UK, will say that the Internet could bring about greater democracy, but not in the near future. "The Internet offers a wonderful democratic tool," he says. "But a business model has not yet developed to sustain independent net-based journalism as an adequate corrective to media concentration and weakened editorial standards."
Other speakers taking part are: - Agnes Callamard, executive director of press freedom lobby organisation Article 19, who will outline what she sees to be the major challenges for press freedom in the world today
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Gerry Gable, former editor of Searchlight magazine, who will talk about hate speech in the UK today
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Rhidian Wynn-Davies, consulting editor of The Telegraph, who will talk about the impact of the Internet on press freedom.
The debate will be chaired by John Naughton, Director of the Wolfson College, Cambridge Press Fellowship Programme.
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Young archaeologists dig up a mystery. School pupils find ancient skill during a University of Cambridge dig in Suffok.
A group of teenagers taking part in a Cambridge University archaeological dig