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22 Jan 2021: A brand new, exciting festival for Cambridge replaces the hugely popular Science Festival and Festival of Ideas. The Cambridge Festival will host an extensive series of free, online events between 26 March to 4 April this year. The Festival's

2 Apr 2021: Homerton College has announced the election of Lord Woolley of Woodford as its next Principal. Lord Woolley will succeed Professor Geoffrey Ward on 1 October 2021. Simon Woolley is the Founding Director of Operation Black Vote (OBV), the

3 Mar 2021: USS recently announced that the cost of preserving the current level of benefits provided by the pension scheme has risen significantly – from 30.7% of salary to between 56% and 42% of salary. USS is mid-way through its latest triennial valuation,

22 Jul 2021: The award was won for a joint paper "From shelter to emancipation: how disabled workers found their own voice through identity work" by Prof. Shaz Ansari (pictured) and Patricia Hein.

14 Oct 2021: University CFO Anthony Odgers, also a member of the USS joint negotiating committee, explains in five steps how we got here and what the University is doing on USS.

2 Feb 2021: This page is about the 2017 valuation of USS, which is now completed. See the latest news about USS. For definitions of terms used on these pages, see this glossary. A brief history of the 2017 valuation The 2017 valuation projected a significant

4 Aug 2021: The ninth year of Green Impact at the University of Cambridge was launched, completed, and celebrated, during a world pandemic. Despite the challenges posed by COVID-19, the University is immensely proud to announce that 47 teams have achieved a

13 May 2021: He held a number of legal and non-legal roles earlier in his career including at the Home Office, the Attorney General’s Office and the Department for Work and Pensions.

8 Nov 2021: Research by Professor Raghavendra Rau of the Cambridge Judge Business School tests USS assumptions on returns against the historical record since 1900. His modelling, based on historical data, suggests USS would have enough money to meet pensions

23 Aug 2021: Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly FRS FMedSci and Professor Sadaf Farooqi FRS FMedSci from The Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge have been jointly awarded the 2022 Croonian Medal of the Royal Society “for