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A changing man

The world has always been in flux, but the last decades, particularly the recent one, have been ones of rapid, often violent, transformation on many fronts. For Jaya Savige [2008] the last 11 years since leaving Cambridge have been characterised by profound change on both the personal and professional front. He has captured all of that […]

Second series of Gates Cambridge podcast coming

It’s a new academic year and Gates Cambridge is working on the second series of its So, now what? podcast taking into account feedback over the summer on our first one. The new series, which will launch in January for our 25th anniversary year, will once again be hosted by international journalist Catherine Galloway and […]

Upskilling the world in digital skills for the future

A computer science education company founded by a Gates Cambridge Scholar has gone from strength to strength, partnering with universities across the world and earning plaudits from a UK minister for its work in driving up digital skills. HyperionDev was founded by Riaz Moola as an online coding bootcamp based in South Africa. It has […]

Rob Henderson to speak at Gates Cambridge event

Gates Cambridge Scholar Rob Henderson will be speaking about his best-selling memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class at an event at Bill Gates Sr. House next Friday [4th October]. The book, published by Simon & Schuster, tells of Rob’s journey from foster care to the military to academia and explores […]