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From start-up success to societal impact – the Better Futures Programme

14 May 2025

What happens when a tech entrepreneur reimagines what success looks like – not just for themselves, but for society? For Andy Phillipps (Downing 1987), co-founder of Booking.com and a member of Founders at the University of Cambridge , the answer wasn't another startup, but scaling impact itself. After experiencing the...

New Online Course Bursary named in honour of longstanding ICE colleague

23 April 2025

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Alison Fordham bursary (for Online Education), named in honour of our valued longstanding colleague at the Institute of Continuing Education, who sadly passed away in August last year. Throughout her career, Alison supported thousands of learners to access key virtual learning...

Celebrating Alexander Carter's Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence

3 April 2025

We are delighted to announce that our Director of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, Alexander Carter, has received the prestigious Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence. The award recognises his dedication to teaching adult learners and his innovative approach to interdisciplinary education. Innovative Teaching...

Introducing a major new pathway to Better Futures

11 February 2025

A unique new proposition launches at ICE this September. The full-time Better Futures programme convenes the power of Cambridge to help accomplished leaders spark positive change in the world. We meet the programme’s Academic Director to find out more. Life’s pathways don’t always take you in the direction you expect. Take...

Meet the Academic Team: Coaching

3 February 2025

We spoke to the new Coaching academic team to get to know more about their backgrounds, their roles at the Institute and what they love about Coaching. Dr Andrea Giraldez-Hayes is the Course Director for the MSt in Coaching at the University of Cambridge. She is a chartered psychologist (BPS), psychotherapist (BACP)...

ICE’s Course Director in Philosophy, Dr Milena Ivanova has received the 2024 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize from the American Philosophical Association (APA)

17 January 2025

The Institute would like to congratulate Dr Milena Ivanova, Senior Teaching Associate and Course Director in Philosophy for receiving the 2024 Routledge, Taylor and Francis Prize from the APA. The Prize, established in 2013, aims to recognise the best scholarly work in philosophy by adjunct professors. Dr Ivanova received...

Professor Gilly Carr, ICE’s Academic Director of Archaeology, made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

8 January 2025

Congratulations to Professor Gilly Carr, ICE's Academic Director in Archeology , and Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Holocaust Heritage, who has been made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the King's New Year Honours List, for her services to Holocaust Research and Education. We spoke to Gilly to...

Ready for the summer of a lifetime? The International Summer Programme is now open for applications.

18 December 2024

In the summer of 2025, you could become part of our vibrant, international community of adult learners, on the University of Cambridge’s official International Summer Programme. You will have the opportunity to combine courses from a wide range of subjects and stay in a historic Cambridge College. You can attend for one...

Breaking: Cambridge alumni status extended to ICE students

14 November 2024

We are thrilled to announce that from the academic year 2024-25, ICE students completing award-bearing courses – undergraduate and postgraduate Certificates, Diplomas, and Advanced Diplomas- will be recognised as University of Cambridge alumni, a first for part-time students at the Institute. During 2023, the University...

Introducing Annabel Harper

31 October 2024

I started my career as a journalist and last worked for the BBC, before moving to people management and coaching. I really enjoyed it and decided I wanted to do this as a second career, so left my job and studied a Master’s in Coaching and Mentoring Practice at Oxford Brookes. I soon set up my own coaching business and...

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From start-up success to societal impact – the Better Futures Programme

New Online Course Bursary named in honour of longstanding ICE colleague

Celebrating Alexander Carter's Pilkington Prize for Teaching Excellence

Introducing a major new pathway to Better Futures

Meet the Academic Team: Coaching

ICE’s Course Director in Philosophy, Dr Milena Ivanova has received the 2024 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize from the American Philosophical Association (APA)

Professor Gilly Carr, ICE’s Academic Director of Archaeology, made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Ready for the summer of a lifetime? The International Summer Programme is now open for applications.

Breaking: Cambridge alumni status extended to ICE students

Introducing Annabel Harper

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