Our research shows the impact of wealth gaps in Cambridge:
• unaffordable housing
• rising hunger
• social care cuts bite
• 11 year health gap
We think Cambridge can do better.
We believe Cambridge can be a beacon of fairness.
Our city needs a radical blueprint for change.
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What we're doing to challenge inequality and unfairness in Cambridge
Education
Raising awareness of the harm inequality does
Pay & Wealth
Promoting fairer pay scales and an inequality fund
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Blog – Keeping an eye on 2027: what are we aiming for in education?
I have been doing a lot of reading recently about inequality and education. It’s all pretty discouraging stuff: social mobility is falling; school exclusions are rising, often due to social inequalities beyond a school’s control; GSCE performance is rising slightly but there are concerns about the costs to pupils’ health. Are we teaching the pupil
Blog – Inequality and AI
At first blush, inequality and artificial intelligence (AI) don’t see to have much in common, but scratch the surface and they begin to look like twins separated at birth. Artificial intelligence is the creation of software that can improve itself, to the point where it might enable machines to become sufficiently human-like for us to
Blog – Lewis Herbert’s Article on Cambridge University’s Role in Tackling Inequality
A few weeks ago the Leader of Cambridge City Council, Lewis Herbert, wrote an article for the Cambridge Independent on how Cambridge University can help to tackle inequality in the city. Find below the full text of the article which Cambridge Commons believes is a positive, practical message on how Cambridge University can help to