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As an international student, the news of a third lockdown and an online term caused a staggering range of worries: most of us can’t exactly ask our parents to pick us up. Many international students have been left in the lurch, asked to stay where they are for an indefinite period of time, with no idea what the immediate future holds. We spoke to international students across the university dealing with vastly different situations and concerns: travel chaos, financial strain, hauntingly empty gyps, online teaching woes, and more: ‘I feel like the university and college have learnt very l...

Cambridge to offer free foundation year to disadvantaged students The programme will be offered by 11 colleges for up to 50 students starting in 2022 2 months ago A selection of Cambridge colleges will be offering a free foundation year to 50 disadvantaged students from October 2022 in a move to widen access. The full-time, residential programme will be aimed at students who wish to study arts, humanities, or social sciences. Suitable attainment during the foundation year will then allow students to progress onto 18 different degree courses at Cambridge, including English, history, law, and...

An organiser has estimated that this could equate to around £800,000 in withheld rent. The movement has been rapidly gathering pace over recent weeks as tensions rise amongst the student body regarding the university’s rent policy during the Covid-19 pandemic. ��500 PEOPLE HAVE PLEDGED TO WITHHOLD RENT IN JAN!!�� The University and colleges are landlords and bosses, and if we don’t fight for our own interests against their profit motive, we will continue to be exploited. Sign up today and join the mass movement: https://t.co/PLnTgWW6ck The movement, launched in late November of t...