Cambridge University received a “generous gift” from a Chinese software company with links to the communist regime to fund an engineering fellowship, The Times has learnt.
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Women's long struggle to gain fair access to university is commemorated in an exhibition opening next week at the University of Cambridge library.
What's most shocking, perhaps, is that it's all so relatively recent - with women not allowed to graduate from Cambridge on equal terms until 1948.
For teenagers currently filling in their university applications, it would be hard to imagine that within living memory at Cambridge there was such blunt discrimination.
The "Rising Tide" exhibition shows the level of resistance, including violence, against women wanting to study at Cambridge with equal rights to men.
This includes the remnants of a firework thrown by protesters in 1897 as they rioted against the revolutionary idea of women getting degrees.
But in the end it was the women who put a rocket up Cambridge, rather than the other way round.
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One of the country's most historic educational centres for young blind people is warning that financial pressures are threatening its survival.
The Royal National College for the Blind, which has operated for almost 150 years, says without extra funding it will cease to be sustainable.
Lucy Proctor, chief executive of the college's charitable trust, has blamed a squeeze on special-needs budgets.
But the government is promising a £700m increase for special needs.
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The prison service has made it on to a list of Britain’s top 100 employers for graduates thanks to its innovative fast-track scheme.
The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2019-20, published on Wednesday, also shows that the number of new graduates wanting to work in the public sector is at its highest level for almost a decade. There are 11 public sector employers in the rankings, including the NHS at number five, its highest position since the list began in 1999.
Unlocked, a scheme that parachutes graduates into the prison service, entered the table at number 49, the highest new entry.
The rankings are compiled from research with 19,700 graduates who left university this summer. They were asked: “Which employer do you think offers the best opportunities for graduates?”
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