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The Times: INTERVIEW - Meet Milo Beckman, the whizz-kid making maths supercool
The Times: INTERVIEW - Meet Milo Beckman, the whizz-kid making maths supercool

Milo Beckman was studying advanced algebra when he was 8. By 15, he was a Harvard prodigy. Now aged just 25, he’s written a brilliant book that takes everything we know (and fear) about maths out of the equation – starting with numbers.

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Education, Higher Education, Interview, Maths, Media Article, Reading, Science, STEAM, STEM, WritingSarah NorrisLando EducationThe Times, Interview, Lando, Lando Education, maths, mathematics, mathematician, Milo Beckman, algebra, equation, Harvard, Harvard University, The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, Math Without Numbers, Penguin Publishing, academiaComment
The Sunday Times: UK university rankings: the best universities by subject
The Sunday Times: UK university rankings: the best universities by subject

As well as institutional rankings, The Sunday Times and The Times have identified the centres of excellence within each of 67 subject areas. The subject rankings are based on student opinion on teaching quality and their wider university experiences, combined with the outcomes of the 2014 research assessments, graduate job prospects and course entry standards.

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BBC: How women students put a rocket up Cambridge
BBC: How women students put a rocket up Cambridge

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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Education, Higher Education, Media ArticleSarah NorrisLando EducationBBC, women students, Cambridge, Cambridge University, womenComment