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Mary Beard to fund classics students from under-represented groups

Academic and broadcaster will give £80,000 to support two students at Cambridge as parting retirement gift

The academic and broadcaster Mary Beard is to retire from Cambridge University next year and as a parting gift will leave an £80,000 fund to support two classics students from under-represented groups.

Despite recent efforts to increase diversity in the classics department, including offering an additional year for candidates with little or no Latin, Beard says the faculty remains “very white” and more needs to be done to attract different kinds of students.

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