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  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    On the Covid frontline: photo diary of an ICU consultant

    The FT shadows Dr Charlotte Summers at work in Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

  • Monday, 14 September, 2020
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Nvidia seals $40bn deal for SoftBank’s Arm

    Britain set to impose strict terms including protection of jobs and maintaining UK headquarters

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    FT SeriesA very different summer
    Cambridge has a tourist problem: it no longer has any

    Some used to quietly resent the day-trippers but now they’ve gone, it’s bloody awful, says Tim Hayward

  • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
    Huawei Technologies
    US warns UK over Huawei plan to spend £1bn on chip facility

    Permission for Chinese group to build development centre in Cambridgeshire draws state department ire

  • Thursday, 4 June, 2020
    FT MagazineTim Hayward
    Tim Hayward on missing his favourite local restaurant

    ‘I used to go regularly, when I wanted to get away from work and just sit somewhere, alone with my thoughts’

  • Friday, 10 January, 2020
    UK property
    Cambridge tech boom blamed for rising property prices

    Could the smart minds be driven out by congestion and unaffordable housing?

  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2019
    Special ReportUniversities & Innovation
    Cambridge ‘spinouts’ attract record funding

    University-based businesses thrive but ‘Silicon Fen’ faces growing competition

  • Monday, 16 September, 2019
    Technology sector
    CMR Surgical hits £1bn valuation as it rolls out robots for surgery

    Cambridge-based start-up raises £195m as it prepares to launch in Europe and India

  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2019
    FT AlphavilleClaire Jones
    The Oxbridge problem is broader than just admissions

    The UK needs a more diverse elite. 

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
    News in-depth
    The winning formula behind Silicon Fen’s success story

    Collaboration between academics and entrepreneurs over 30 years transforms region

  • Monday, 24 June, 2019
    UK social mobility
    Britain’s elite still drawn from fee-paying schools

    Efforts to improve social mobility have had little effect on those taking top jobs

  • Friday, 31 May, 2019
    News in-depthUK universities
    Oxbridge struggles to ditch bastion of white privilege label

    Black faces are rare sight at the top universities despite outreach work and the odd appointment

  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2019
    News in-depthUK universities
    Sheffield’s success flags funding pay gap

    Most state funding for research goes to Golden Triangle, but private backers go north

  • Friday, 26 April, 2019
    InterviewUK Inequality
    Cambridge university moves to tackle elitism

    Effort to increase number of students from poorer families, says vice-chancellor

  • Sunday, 31 March, 2019
    Venture capital investment
    Cambridge fund raises £150m in new financing round

    Investors pile into venture vehicle that focuses on fast-growing technology cluster

  • Friday, 8 March, 2019
    ReviewTelevision
    Cheat on ITV — a thriller set in Cambridge explores university power dynamics

    A student and lecturer face each other behind plate glass. One of them has been banged up, but who — and why?

  • Friday, 15 February, 2019
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    Drug start-ups move out of UK’s ‘golden triangle’

    Northern England’s strength in life sciences spurs businesses to develop there

  • Wednesday, 10 October, 2018
    Helen Barrett
    The real reasons why mentors change your life

    Behavioural science finds all sorts of hidden benefits to informal support networks

  • Thursday, 27 September, 2018
    News in-depthFT Alphaville
    Cambridge University’s £1bn bet on housing
  • Monday, 3 September, 2018
    Science
    Cambridge scientists partner up to boost tech start-ups

    Ahren fund pulls in more than £100m for range of technologies including AI

  • Tuesday, 7 August, 2018
    Travel
    Cambridge’s University Arms reopens after four-year, £80m revamp

    After a disastrous flirtation with Modernism in the 1960s, the hotel has returned to tradition in a big way

  • Wednesday, 18 July, 2018
    Architecture
    Billion-pound Bloomberg HQ on Stirling Prize shortlist

    Foster + Partners design on list that also includes a kindergarten and prayer hall

  • Tuesday, 3 July, 2018
    FT AlphavilleThomas Hale
    The great balance sheet shift of British universities
  • Monday, 2 July, 2018
    House & Home
    Five reasons to live in Cambridge, UK

    Among the city’s historic colleges and cycle-friendly greenery is a thriving tech hub

  • Saturday, 9 June, 2018
    EU financial regulation
    Brussels changes rules to boost trust in green funds

    European Commission steps up fight against climate change but it will cost fund firms

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