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How Good We Can Be
An extract from Will Hutton’s new book was published in the Guardian today: the smart economy of the future cannot be constructed without enfranchised citizens, intelligent, risk-taking consumers and equally inte...
Christopher Zeeman at 90
We salute former Principal, Honorary Fellow, and mathematician Sir Christopher Zeeman on the occasion of his 90th birthday this month. Sir Christopher’s birthday will be marked by the launch of a new online archive...
Award for Alison Woollard
Many congratulations to Dr Alison Woollard, Hertford tutor in Biochemistry, who has been awarded the 2015 JBS Haldane Lecture by the Genetics Society. The award recognises an individual for outstanding ability to commu...
Roy Foster: Free Thinking
Two Hertford Fellows – Honorary Fellow Paul Muldoon and Carroll Professor of Irish History Roy Foster – discuss their recent work on BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking this week.
Hertford crime writer
Hertford crime writer Claire McGowan (English and French, 2000), author of thrillers including two – The Lost and The Dead Ground – starring her forensic psychologist heroine Paula Maguire, is one of the t...
Getting to know you…
Only a couple of weeks into her new job, Dr Catherine Redford – Hertford’s Outreach Fellow – is already beginning to get to know all about our link schools – and proving ‘precisely…[their] cup of ...
Harlow at full stretch
Next Wednesday Hertford’s Outreach Fellow, Dr Catherine Redford, will be in Harlow running a Stretch Event for academically gifted year 12s. Organised in collaboration with Emmanuel College, Cambridge, the event wi...
Will Hutton’s new book
The growth of inequality is both a warning of the growing dysfunctionality of our capitalism and the principal obstacle to addressing it. Will Hutton’s new book, How Good We Can Be, will be launched on 12 February...
Living Wage
Hertford Principal Will Hutton has today announced that the college has been accredited by the Living Wage Foundation. Timing the official announcement to coincide with news that the University, together with Wadham and...
Access success!
In September 2013 we invited 10 state schools to bring a group of 10 students (each) to attend an Access Day as part of the celebrations for the centenary of Hertford’s bridge. In September 2014 those students st...