East Point Academy, Lowestoft.
PHOTO: Nick Butcher
- Credit: Nick Butcher
A Lowestoft-area high school is celebrating after two former students secured places at Cambridge and Oxford.
East Point Academy in Lowestoft, part of East Anglian-based Inspiration Trust, is marking a milestone moment as two students have taken places at Oxbridge to continue with their studies.
Jezz Brown and Megan Swann both left the high school in Kirkley Run in 2019 going on to sixth form at East Norfolk Sixth Form College.
Jezz will be taking up his place in Cambridge to study Human, Social and Political Sciences at Jesus College, while Megan has been offered a deferred place at Oxford to study History at The Queen’s College.
East Point Academy, Lowestoft.
PHOTO: Nick Butcher
- Credit: Nick Butcher
A Lowestoft-area high school is celebrating after two former students secured places at Cambridge and Oxford.
East Point Academy in Lowestoft, part of East Anglian-based Inspiration Trust, is marking a milestone moment as two students have taken places at Oxbridge to continue with their studies.
Jezz Brown and Megan Swann both left the high school in Kirkley Run in 2019 going on to sixth form at East Norfolk Sixth Form College.
Jezz will be taking up his place in Cambridge to study Human, Social and Political Sciences at Jesus College, while Megan has been offered a deferred place at Oxford to study History at The Queen’s College.
University of Cambridge proposes massive new development for south west Cambridge
The planned site for the new development is currently green belt land used for farming
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Artist impression of the South West Cambridge proposal, north of Barton Road (Image: David Lock Associates)
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The vision for the development includes adhering to the city council’s policy of offering a minimum 40 per cent affordable housing on site, with the other homes being made for the open market, housing for the university and college staff, specialist housing for the elderly, and student accommodation.
The group told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that it is proposing “a range of densities across the site”. At this stage it is looking at between 47 and 52 homes per hectare.
Artist impression of the South West Cambridge proposal north of Barton Road, South West Meadows section.
- Credit: David Lock Associates
Revealed: the Cambridge-China Pact
Journalism makes nothing happen. The general lack-of-response within Cambridge to the
TCSarticle ‘Stephen Toope: Blind to Tyranny’ would certainly warrant this conclusion. The piece, published in May 2020, revealed that on two separate occasions the Vice-Chancellor (who specialises in human-rights law) had used his position to promote the methods and objectives of the dictatorial Chinese government.
First, in a February 2019 Jesus College white paper funded by Huawei, Toope appeared to endorse China’s plans for a ‘new governance system’ worldwide; second, in a March 2019 speech at Peking University, Toope praised the faculty as ‘a formidable institution, which seeks an open world’. This encomium would be blandly unobjectionable were it not the case that, in the months before Toope’s speech, secret police abducted the Peking students Yue Xin, Zhang Shangye, and Qiu Zhanxuan for protesting about labour rights. After Peking’s Marx