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Featured in Cambridge Catalyst , ICE Academic Dr Alex Carter, discusses the importance of Creativity in the workplace, particularly as it's one of the few skills machines aren't currently able to replicate! If you'd like to learn more about Creativity, applications are now open for our Undergraduate Diploma in Creativity...
ICE Academic appointed as advisor to new Holocaust Memorial and Centre
29 October 2019
Dr Gilly Carr , senior lecturer and academic director in Archaeology at ICE, has recently been appointed as one of eight academic advisors to the new Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in Westminster. In 2016, Gilly was appointed to the 12-member delegation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance , and this...
First Story: Bursaries providing professional development opportunities for teachers
18 October 2019
As part of our aim to widen participation in Higher Education, ICE offers a number of bursary schemes covering our extensive course offering. The 'First Story' bursary, in partnership with First Story , offers financial support for teachers who write (or writers who teach) working in schools in low-income communities...
Cambridge Independent: Are we reading less because of social media?
18 October 2019
With the ever-increasing use of social media in our day-to-day lives, ICE tutor Tyler Shores brings into question the impacts of the 'infinite scroll' on our reading habits and how we can go about strengthening our brain reading muscles in this digital world. --- Read the full article in the Cambridge Independent ...
The Conversation: Dr Jenny Bavidge discusses how the climate crisis is affecting stories not even about the environment
16 October 2019
Written for The Conversation during an academic conference on Literature and the Environment at Plymouth University, ICE Academic Director in Literature and self-confessed "eco-lit nerd" Dr Jenny Bavidge, considers the kinds of stories that succeed in informing and convincing people about the climate and ecological...
Ely Standard: 'New Horizons Bursaries' at the University of Cambridge ICE
27 September 2019
ICE has recently launched a new bursary scheme which will cover the full costs of studying an online or short course here at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education. The 'New Horizons' bursaries have been created in partnership with the CHS Group , a charitable housing association supporting those...
In the last edition of Inside ICE, we revealed our new ‘Super Tuesday’ lifelong learning programme, bringing three-hour courses covering more than 20 subjects to Tuesday mornings and afternoons. The full ‘Super Tuesday’ programme, beginning on September 24th, is now available and open to all adults, regardless of age or...
The ICE students bringing science to life for us all
18 September 2019
Science has profound consequences for individuals, businesses, communities and the natural world. Increasingly, scientists recognise that those impacts must be openly discussed if they want wider society – be that the general public, companies, funding bodies or policy makers – to engage with the benefits and challenges of...
After starting academic life as a prehistorian, Senior Lecturer Dr Gilly Carr , Course Director of ICE’s Postgraduate Certificate in Britain and the Holocaust , was inspired to investigate the archaeology of World War II. And so began a twelve-years-and-counting career dedicated to unearthing the unspoken history of the...
From suffrage to sustainability – the genesis and flowering of lifelong learning
18 September 2019
The Institute of Continuing Education’s accessible programme of part-time adult learning pre-dates Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone. Inside ICE digs into the Institute’s history and shows how its founders may have been 150 years ahead of their time. Earning the right to learn Professor James Stuart often gets the credit...
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