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Last week Laura, an A-level student at Middlesbrough College on Teesside, got up at 4 am to take the train south to Cambridge. She travelled on her own and, despite having never visited the city before, found her way to the Sidgwick site.

Hundreds of walkers made the most of a gloriously sunny day to tour the colleges of Cambridge on Sunday in the annual Bridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥Gap walk.

Following hot on the heels of comedian David Walliams, Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Swimming Club won the Varsity Cross-Channel Relay on Saturday 8 July.

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge has announced the proposed appointment of Professor Arnoud De Meyer, a leading figure in business school management, as the new Director of its Judge Business School, from September 2006.

A ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge student has reached the final of the Science, Engineering & Technology (SET) Students of the Year Civil Engineering Award. DO NOT USE THIS STORY BEFORE CHECKING WITH ALEXANDRA BIODE OF SET AWARDS WHETHER WE HAVE STUDENTS SHORTLISTED IN OTHER CATEGORIES AS WELL. (ALEX IS ON 020 7464 8581.)

School/college students thinking about applying for 2005 entry to Cambridge (or deferred entry in 2006) are welcome to come along to one of the many open days and information days taking place this month.

Robert McNamara is visiting Cambridge this week to take part in a series of discussions about US foreign policy from the 1960s to the present. Mr McNamara was Secretary of Defence in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and a key policy maker during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War.