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Climate change
Cambridge-led coalition of universities threatens banks over fossil fuel financing
...The universities, which include among others Oxford, Edinburgh, Leeds, University College London and the London School of Economics, are pushing for the development of novel financial products that will...
February 15, 2024
News in-depthUK infrastructure
Cambridge innovation hub at risk from lack of infrastructure, warn businesses
...Cambridge Ahead, a lobby group that includes chipmaker Arm, the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, told the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt that a lack of housing, water and transport was...
March 30, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
UK universities
Cambridge university halts donations from fossil fuel groups
...Shell and BP’s ties to Cambridge have grown in recent years against a backdrop of rising concern over the increasing impact of climate change and the wider influence of energy companies on academic research...
March 18, 2024
Chess
Chess: Oxford vs Cambridge almost level after 151 years
...Hundreds of new members joined the Oxford and Cambridge clubs in freshers week last autumn, while in February 40 teams competed in the British Universities team championship, In Division 1, Oxford won on...
March 4, 2024
Pollution
Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race to go ahead despite ‘dangerous’ pollution in Thames
...The Boat Race, the company that runs the rowing contest between the world-leading universities of Oxford and Cambridge, said water quality was “an ongoing concern” as it confirmed that the races would go...
March 28, 2024
Letter
Letter: Truss piece at least was a good advert for pub grub
...Please leave Truss on the shelf with the other wilting salads. Fiona Lake Cambridge, UK...
April 24, 2024
FT Live
Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers
Wednesday, 12 June237 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA
Letter
Letter: Snake steak
...She concludes that, given the anxiety and even phobias snakes induce in people, “snakes as the new livestock of choice might not have legs”....
April 8, 2024
Life & Arts
Kill your darlings — insights into the art of the editing from Oxford’s Bodleian Library
...In 1914 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch — author and renowned editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse — delivered a lecture at the University of Cambridge in which he exhorted his audience to be strict with...
February 16, 2024
Letter
Letter: Educate Ukraine children, and lift hopes in other wars
...We can draw lessons from such efforts by Cambridge Partnership for Education and Unicef in South Sudan and with Rohingya refugees....
March 5, 2024
Letter
Letter: Russia is more invested in this war than we are
...There will be a territorial carve-up in which most of Ukraine will remain Ukrainian, but some bits that don’t want that (notably Crimea) will become Russian....
March 25, 2024
Cambridge
Cambridge aims to double its number of ‘unicorns’ by 2035
...Cambridge is core to the government’s ambition to drive investment in science and technology in the so-called “golden triangle” cluster with Oxford and London, and turn Cambridge into “a science capital...
October 11, 2023
IPOs
Do independent advisers help or hinder IPOs?
...They have a clear idea of how to position their companies in the market and what price they want to achieve. Advisers, independent or not, are there to execute the plan. They don’t call the shots....
February 12, 2024
Visual and data journalism
And the winner is . . .
...She managed to get around the first-chart blunder, and correctly identified the columns as showing Pimco’s net flows (the unit should be billions of euros, not billions of dollars)....
March 4, 2024
Letter
Letter: Forgiveness, after a fashion
...Neri Karra Sillaman Entrepreneurship Expert, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK...
March 8, 2024
Anjana Ahuja
UK scientists don’t need a corporate saviour as their boss
...Last week, Sir John Bell, the immunologist and entrepreneur who will soon lead the Ellison Institute of Technology at Oxford university, told the FT that a businessperson could take the UKRI helm, to inject...
February 28, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
Letter
Letter: Schools progress in poorer states aids global economy
...When Rishi Sunak hosts 25 heads of state and government at the UK-African investment summit in April, he intends to strengthen UK-African partnerships to create jobs and growth....
February 16, 2024
UK prime property
Everything about Cambridge is booming — except housing supply
...“We can cycle everywhere and Cambridge is such a vibrant city,” says Libby, who works for the University of Cambridge....
February 22, 2024
Letter
Letter: Declining birth rates are a symptom of a male malaise
...Those who will benefit are men themselves and society as a whole. Vincent StraubNuffield Department of Population Health University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK...
February 26, 2024
Transcript
Transcript: How do you define a war crime?
...My guest is Boyd van Dijk, a historian at Oxford university and author of a recent book called Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva Conventions. So how do you define a war crime?...
April 11, 2024
Special ReportEurope’s Leading Start-up Hubs
Euro tech hubs find ways to flourish beyond capital cities alone
...In the UK, where start-ups in London, Oxford and Cambridge pick up three times as much funding as across the rest of the country, incubator network SETsquared has placed its bets on partnerships with universities...
March 14, 2024
Letter
Letter: The wrong moniker for presidential election victor
...Access to abortion is under threat the world over, and to be in favour of a loss of rights is not, in any way, “libertarian”. Archie McCann St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK...
November 22, 2023
Letter
Letter: Paradox of regulation and nuclear industry accidents
...This may also reduce the harm done by future nuclear accidents. Professor Anton van der Merwe Sir William Dunn School of Pathology University of Oxford, Oxford, UK...
February 20, 2024
Letter
Letter: Musk, the Fall of Rome and the usurpation of the state
...David KaufmanDPhil Candidate in ClassicsThe Queen’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK...
September 22, 2023
Letter
Letter: What would politics be like if MPs were chosen by lot?
...Roger Crisp Director, The Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical EthicsUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK Letter in response to this letter: Buckley’s Boston bombast / From Ira Sohn, New York, NY, US...
January 26, 2024
Letter
Letter: Urbanisation — part of the solution, not the problem
...By leveraging the efficiency benefits of urbanisation, we can use it as an opportunity for positive transformation. Carina ManitiusEconomist, Oxford Economics, London SW1, UK...
February 14, 2024

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