The University has recently completed an internal review of its continuing education provision.The Institute of Continuing Education is one of the oldest such institutions in the country and plays a major role in the University’s commitment to community engagement and lifelong learning, ensuring that its academic strengths and resources are made available to as many interested learners as possible. Dr Rebecca Lingwood, who succeeded Professor Dick Taylor as Director of the Institute of Continuing Education in October 2009, will continue to expand the Institute’s offerings to extend the reach of Cambridge’s scholarship internationally.
Student diaries Cambridge is a centre of international excellence because it is a meritocratic place. Perhaps no one is better placed to convey this message than those who have just discovered it for themselves, and the diaries of several of these new students have been featured this year on the University’s website.They make for entertaining, and sometimes moving reading and send out an important message.“I’d like to get involved in helping with access and outreach work while I’m at Cambridge,” writes Matthew Green.“I believe it’s really important to get the message across that Cambridge is for all. If it hadn’t been for my dad and my teachers, like a lot of other people I wouldn’t have thought Cambridge was a place for me, and that would have been a huge mistake.”
(Below) Three students take a break at an International Summer School at the University’s Institute of Continuing Education.
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