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800th Birthday Celebrations for Cambridge University

The University of Cambridge marked it's 800th birthday in style, organising several events to highlight the greatest achievements of students who attended the university.

On the 17th January churches in Cambridge rang their bells to celebrate the anniversary to kick off proceedings. Further events are planned including science festivals and a Charles Darwin festival.

Later in the year a 'Festival of Ideas' is planned for October, which will be funded by the university. This fund will also cover the closing ceremony in November 2009, together with further events put forward by individual departments at the university.

So how did it all start? Way back in 1209 groups of scholars used to congregate at the ancient Roman trading post in Cambridge to study - this is now the University of Cambridge as we know it. We certainly see it lasting another 800 years as one of the top universities in the world.

Are you a a student at the University of Cambridge? Why not send in your stories about the celebrations to let students across the UK get an insight into how wild the parties really are! Just contact feedback@money4students.co.uk

Latest Student News - The effect of the recession on Universities

The UK officially fell into recession (defined by 2 quarters of negative growth yesterday which means less public money will be earmarked for colleges and universities - so what does this mean for you? The first signs of the effect on universities was evident in last week's annual government grant letter to the university funding council for England. John Denham (Universities Secretary) began with a warning in it that universities have enjoyed great "security of income and level of customer demand" than the majority of businesses and individuals that they deal with. Denham also berated universities for recruiting more students last year that they were supposed to, which led to him stating that he would not fund them to recruit any extra students for 2009-10. Most importantly he then announced that due to this 'over recruitment' he'd reduce the university funding that he indicated they would get by a whopping £19 million! So what does this really mean? Well after several years of growth in student numbers across the UK, an abrupt cap has been put on any further expansion. During times of recession when jobs are more scare there's a tendancy for a greater number of students to apply to university to gain better skills - therefore competition for places is likely to increase due to this cap. And the effect on student tuition fees? Well there are already indications that due to the lack of funding universities will be looking for a bigger contribution from students, i.e. higher tuition fees. Leeds Met (one of just two universities which set tuition fees below the maximum of £3,145) looks set to raise it's fees above the current level of £2,000 amid fears over the financial situation of the university. As the financial climate gets tougher there is already a widespread feeling that there will be more institutional mergers across the UK. There are clearly tough times ahead for universities which is clearly going to have an impact for students, both in terms of competition for places and the cost of university - in times of recession surely larger loans are the last thing we need.

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