Singing on the River
Over 2,000 people gathered on Trinity’s Backs on 11 June for Singing on the River, a free concert of light music performed by the College Choir from punts garlanded with lights.
Tradition and Innovation
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Trinity Poets on the BBC
Trinity alumna and poet, Rebecca Watts, and Trinity Fellow, Professor Adrian Poole, will feature in a BBC Look East report on Monday 12 June about Trinity Poets, the first anthology of poems by nearly 50 authors from Elizabethan times to the present, all members of the College.
‘Who would turn down the chance to speak at Hay?!’
Talks by Trinity Fellows at the Hay Festival 2017 are now available online (for a small fee). Among the Fellows speaking at the 30th Hay Festival were Professor Catherine Barnard, Dr Hugh Hunt, Professor David Tong, Lord Rees, Professor Greg Hannon and Professor Simon Baron-Cohen.
Women making waves in education
Nearly 100 people attended the panel discussion, Women Making Waves, which explored the gamut of women’s experience in education, from school and university, through career progression as teachers or academics, to balancing professional and home life in a leadership role.
Women making waves in education: 12 May event
Girls do much better than boys in GCSEs and A-Levels. Across UK higher education, female students outnumber men, 57% to 43%. But at top levels – in exams, professorial roles and university leadership – men are still ahead.