Selwyn invited Year 12 students to our first Sciences Summer School which took place between Monday 11th and Wednesday 13th August. Almost 40 students attended the residential course, and represented 26 state-maintained schools mostly from the College’s link areas in Scotland, West Yorkshire and East Berkshire.

If you’re holding a conditional offer of a place at Selwyn College and have met all the conditions in your offer and have the grades required, congratulations! A letter is in the post to you.

There’s a particularly good display this year in the Selwyn gardens, with the Victorian-style border a great showpiece in the lower College garden. This is accessible to everyone in the College and to visitors. Our photographs show some of the highlights, with guidance on the plants from our head gardener Paul Gallant – who, with his team, is responsible for one of the most attractive gardens in Cambridge.

Below is a photograph of Selwyn’s Freshmen of 1913: the young men who arrived at the College 101 years ago. They would have been just as excited about starting their University life as generations of students before and since, and with the same ambitions and hopes for the future. In that autumn nobody could have imagined the scale of the horror that lay ahead.

 

Selwyn features prominently in two new videos made about admission interviews for Cambridge University. Two Selwyn Fellows – Mike Sewell and Amer Rana – are quoted in The Times about the launch of the videos, which are an attempt to demystify the admissions system and particularly the role of the interview.

Our picture shows Year 10 students from Saffron Walden County High School lined up on the steps of Selwyn’s Hall on the way into lunch. They were here this month to find out about the ambitious choices they can make for their university careers.

The Master of Selwyn, Roger Mosey, has been meeting former students of Selwyn College and of Cambridge University now living in East Asia.

Selwyn alumni and friends in Tokyo had dinner with the Master, Roger Mosey, this week during his visit to the Far East.

Roger has been speaking to staff at NHK, the Japanese national broadcaster, about coverage of Olympic Games – with Tokyo now chosen as the host city for 2020. But there was a chance for former students living in Japan to meet him and each other for a relaxed conversation about Selwyn past and future.

 

Selwyn had a hard-fought victory over Manchester University in the first edition of the new series of University Challenge, shown on BBC Two on Monday, July 14th.

The lead changed hands a number of times during a close contest, but Selwyn moved ahead in the final stages to make it into the 2nd round of the competition. The score was 190-160.