Hughes Hall, Cambridge

Hughes Hall, Cambridge

Full name Elizabeth Phillips Hughes Hall Company Named after Miss Elizabeth Phillips Hughes Established 1885 Previously named Cambridge Training College for Women Teachers Admission Men and women President Mrs. Sarah Squire Undergraduates 60 Graduates 325 Sister college Linacre College, Oxford Location Mortimer Road Disce ut Servias
(Latin, "Learn in order to serve") College website MCR website Boat Club website

Hughes Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. It is often informally called Hughes, and is the oldest of the four Cambridge colleges which admit only mature students. The majority of Hughes Hall students are postgraduate, although nearly one-fifth of the student population comprises individuals aged 21 and above who are studying undergraduate degree courses at the University.

It was founded in 1885 as the Cambridge Training College for Women Teachers, and its first principal was Miss Elizabeth Phillips Hughes. It began with 14 students in a small house in Newnham called Croft Cottage. One of the first matriculants, Molly Thomas, recounted the experience of the first class of students in A London Girl of the 1880s, published under her married name, M.V. Hughes. By 1895 the college moved to its present site, which was designed by the Cambridge architect William Fawcett. Expanding slowly over the next 40 years, the college finally became part of the University in November 1949 and was renamed Hughes Hall in honour of its first principal. Hughes Hall became an Approved Foundation of the University in 1985 and achieved full College status in 2006.

The College's first male students arrived in 1973, and students began to study a wider range of affiliated post-graduate degrees. Student numbers gradually increased in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, Hughes Hall has about 500 graduate, affiliated and mature (aged over 21) students, of both sexes, studying a wide range of subjects. The college is one of the most international Cambridge colleges, with its students representing over 60 nationalities.

Most of the Fellows of the college are academics engaged in teaching and research. They come from diverse backgrounds and work in many fields. Students and Fellows mix freely in all aspects of college life. Unusually, Hughes has no special provisions for Fellows at meals (such as a High Table - students and Fellows sit with each other at the same tables and eat the same meals) or in the use of the college's recreational facilities.

In 2005 Hughes opened a new residential, dining, and meeting building, the Fenners Building, which overlooks the University cricket grounds, also named Fenners. A new Learning Resources Centre, which includes a new library and computer room, was completed in summer 2009.

Hughes has many specialities, including students in professional disciplines such as medicine, law, business, and postgraduate studies in education, as well as a disproportionately high number of Cambridge 'Blues' - sportsmen and women who have excelled in fields including rugby, rowing, boxing, cricket, swimming, chess and others.

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