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E&M graduate business success
Onfido, the company set up by Oxford graduates including Hertford’s Eamon Jubbawy (Economics and Management, 2009), is profiled in the Sunday Times this week. Eamon and his fellow directors have raised £330,000 fr...
Roy Foster on W.B. Yeats
Still time to hear Roy Foster, Carroll Professor of Irish History, talking about W.B. Yeats on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please.
Scott Kennedy, 1961-2014
We are all sad at news of the death of Scott Kennedy, our much-loved Lodge Porter. His funeral is on Thursday 28 August at 1pm in the college chapel. Scott was an unfailing colleague and friend, and will be dearly misse...
Medical treatment breakthrough
Medical fellow Professor David Greaves has developed a new treatment for psoriasis which will be marketed by an American bio-tech company, Rogne Bioscience. The anti-inflammatory formula uses a protein produced natural...
Bike ride retrospective
Read Will Hutton’s review of the epic bike ride, raising money for student support, in today’s Observer.
Latest bike ride news
Day 11: VENICE! Bikes, gondolas, relief! Well done to everyone: a wonderful, mad effort. Day 10: Rovereto to Bassano del Grappa. Injuries, rain clouds, but who’d have thought it? They are only one day away from Ve...
Access makes news!
We were delighted that student newspaper, Cherwell, was keen to cover the start of our bike ride for student suppport (access work, student bursaries etc.). With the riders just over half way through their journey, it&#...
Hertford poet shortlisted for Forward
Vidyan Ravinthiran (English, 2003) has been shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection for his new book Grun-tu-molani. Vidyan’s poems have been described in an review in the Independent ...
Hertford BCL successes
Congratulations to Hertford BCL students for their examination success. Jack Williams was named joint Vinerian Scholarship Proxime Accessit, coming second overall in the BCL classlist. He also won the prize for Comparati...
English Grammar Day
Professor Charlotte Brewer was one of the organisers of a successful English grammar day at the British Library this month. The aim of the day was to discuss “to discuss the rights and wrongs of how we speak and h...