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Four students at the University of Cambridge have received Gold Awards from Student Volunteering England for their dedication, achievement and leadership in voluntary activity. The presentation of the awards takes place as part of National Volunteers’ Week 1-7 June.

Children as young as 12 presented their work and opinions at a conference called Understanding Creativity for Creative Understanding, held at the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education last week.

There was elation for sportsmen in light blue as well as disappointment on the banks of the Thames this weekend, when Cambridge beat Oxford by five goals to three in a thrilling 124th Varsity Football Match.

Cambridge will face Oxford on a football pitch by the Thames for the 124th Varsity Match hours before the rowers take to the water this Saturday.

Oxford go into this weekend’s Boat Race as the heavier of the two crews, although Cambridge remain narrow favourites with the bookmakers to make it two wins in a row on Saturday.

The countdown has begun to this Sunday’s Henley Boat Races in which the Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club and Lightweight Men will race against their arch rivals, Oxford.

The 2008 Oxford and Cambridge Student Conferences are filling up fast as schools and colleges around the country book places for their most able pupils.

The ’‘First Lady of Football', Karren Brady, is to speak at the University this evening at the return of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning's ’‘Enterprise Tuesday' events.

The University's finest rowers took on a challenge with a difference last weekend when they agreed to race crews from North Cornwall in traditional Cornish wooden gigs.

More than 10,000 Cambridge students will be marking the start of the new academic year by visiting Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall today and tomorrow for the annual Societies' Fair.