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Academia makes a considerable and valued contribution to society that goes far beyond commercialisation of applied research, as Professor Alan Hughes, co-author of the first in-depth study of all UK university–business interactions, explains.

A new Centre for Children’s Literature is providing a focus for research on how children are shaped by early encounters with books and film.

For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is helping to understand why.

Improvements in education and health could reduce the number of elderly people who suffer from dementia, according to the first study in England to compare elderly cognitive ability.

Watch how a group of teenagers taking part in a Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ archaeological dig unexpectedly unearthed the mysterious remains of a woman who could be more than 1,000 years old.

A Cambridge undergraduate has come first in a competition in which students face the daunting task of giving a full public lecture in Japanese.

̽»¨Ö±²¥graduates of a programme which allows alumni from Fitzwilliam College to spend a year studying in Japan will reunite at Westminster today to celebrate the initiative’s success.

Egypt’s highest-ranking Muslim official, the Grand Mufti Dr Ali Goma, will be speaking at the Faculty of Divinity at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge this evening.

̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge comes second in the Times Higher Education Supplement’s 2006 ranking of world universities.

Adult learners are to be given the chance to study everything from climate change to ancient Rome online with the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge, starting this month.