Students from 142 schools and colleges to join St John’s
The College received 1,501 applications in the 2026 round, with A-level entrants averaging more than three A*s each, International Baccalaureate entrants averaging 44 overall, and 73.4 per cent of UK entrants coming from the state sector
Spacetime expert to give lecture in memory of young physicist
The 2026 Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture will be given in Cambridge by US theoretical physicist Professor Gary Horowitz on 16 October 2026, following a commemorative concert in Oxford on 29 September
The academic who transformed understanding of African history
Professor John Iliffe, Fellow of St John’s College, is remembered for his influential books, inspirational teaching, and ‘sense of humanity’, following his death at the age of 87
The secret to quantum computing may lie in negativity
St John’s researcher uses 1945 mathematical tool developed at the College by Nobel Prize winner Paul Dirac to separate the ‘useful magic states’ that fuel quantum computing from the ‘useless’
