Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led study

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 17, 2025 ~7 min

War in Lebanon has turned a decade of education crisis into a catastrophe - report

Israel-Hezbollah conflict has deepened an education crisis in which children have lost up to 60% of schooling in 6 years, study shows.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Dec. 5, 2024 ~8 min


Palestinian education ‘under attack’, leaving a generation close to losing hope, study warns

Ongoing war in Gaza will set children and young people’s education back by up to five years, report suggests.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 25, 2024 ~9 min

Syrian higher education system facing “complete breakdown” after eight years of war – study

The conflict in Syria has left the country’s higher education system “fragmented and broken”, with universities suffering politicisation, militarisation and human rights violations including disappearances and murder, according to researchers from the University of Cambridge and Syrian academics in exile.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 18, 2019 ~8 min

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