A Hero For Our Time

This is Gillian Tett, Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. The image shows her at a Financial Times party in 2014. (Image credit: Financial Times licensed under Wikimedia Commons) Two Fellows of King’s College have been found guilty of sexual misconduct, the classicist Prof Simon Goldhill and the geophysicist Prof Herbert Read more…

Employment Tribunal Update

Bury St Edmunds Employment Tribunal is currently hearing an ongoing whistleblowing case. Prof Neil Wyn Evans is bringing claims against Cambridge University, Prof Richard McMahon, Ms Emma Rampton and Prof Deborah Prentice under the Public Interest Disclosure Act. Cross-examination begins on Monday 8 June 2026. Prof Evans will be cross-examined Read more…

The Rampton Effect?

The Unified Administrative Service (UAS) at Cambridge is the central body responsible for the university’s core professional and administrative functions. It brings together a wide range of divisions — including human resources, finance, estates, research services, admissions, and governance — under the leadership of the Registrary. Its role is to Read more…

21 Group Statistics

The Figure illustrates the growth of the 21 Group blog, showing the number of unique user sessions recorded each month since it was launched. It now attracts around 13,000 sessions per month — an impressive figure given the blog’s specialised subject matter. At this level of traffic, we are advised Read more…