Esther Knowles

Esther Knowles
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Cambridge University
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University of Cambridge student news, current affairs, student lifestyle, student nightlife, Taylor Swift, English Literature

  • As Former Co-Editor-in-Chief, Esther managed a team of over 40 writers, as well as social media channels of up to 35.8k followers.
  • Esther wrote predominantly for the News section, covering stories relevant to the University of Cambridge. However, she was not limited to writing news; she was also a regular feature writer and organised the heavily anticipated Cambridge BNOC List 2024.
  • Esther studies English at the University of Cambridge, and is passionate about media and communications.

Experience

Esther Knowles joined The Cambridge Tab in January 2023 as a Features Writer, before progressing to be Senior News Editor in the Summer of 2023. She was Co-Editor-in-Chief between January and April 2024.

Education

Esther Knowles is in her final year of undergraduate study, reading English at the University of Cambridge. She studied English, History and Religious Studies at A Level.

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Posts

‘Maybe try a different course’: Ranking Cambridge University lecturers’ brutal comments

No wonder Cambridge students always look stressed

Cambridge University college to install climbing wall inside 150 year old church tower

Pembroke has already converted the church on Trumpington Street into an auditorium

Cambridge University to ban use of the term ‘Oxbridge’ due to elitist connotations

Anyone caught using the word will be forced to undertake a mandatory ‘inclusivity training’

St John’s College Cambridge now has control over the SJV choir’s social media

The petition to save the mixed choir is supported by the former archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams

Cambridge students organise protest against Trinity College’s ties to Israel

The action comes after Trinity was issued a legal notice asking it to divest from its investments in arms companies

Confirmed: Cambridge University assistance staff will strike for three days this month

The industrial action, sparked by pay disputes, will take place from Tuesday 12th March to Thursday 14th March

Students and staff protest for termination of Cambridge University ‘race realist’ fellow

The protestors marched to the Student Services Centre to lodge complaints but were turned away

Student bar staff at a Cambridge college were paid less than minimum wage

Emmanuel College has now paid the £3,924.75 they legally owed to students

Revealed: More than half of Cambridge University students are addicted to vaping

Does anyone else smell fizzy cherry in the library?

Pro-Palestine and climate justice groups host sit-in at Cambridge’s Maxwell Centre

Activist groups protest the involvement of Cambridge’s Laboratory for Scientific Computing with fossil fuel companies and the war in Gaza

Less than half of Cambridge students say they enjoy studying for their degree

More Cambridge students are stressed by their degree than enjoy it

Here’s how much the average Cambridge student spends on a night out

Let’s find out if your spending is normal

Oxford and Cambridge twins to compete on opposing teams in the Boat Race

Catherine and Gemma King will row in rival boats for the first time in their lives

Prospective Cambridge student killed himself after being blackmailed over nude photographs

Dinal De Alwis, a pupil at Whitgift School, wanted to study economics at Cambridge

Cambridge discriminates against privately-educated white men, says ‘anti-woke’ professor

James Tooley, vice-chancellor of Buckingham University, is starting a course examining the origins of the ‘woke’ movement

Cambridge students organise protest and petition calling for termination of Nathan Cofnas

The Philosophy fellow has faced backlash for a controversial blog post where he advocated for a ‘hereditarian revolution’

Cambridge comes fifth in The Times Higher Education world reputation ranking

Unfortunately beaten by Oxford… again!

Cambridge fellow involved in race controversy claims quotes attributed to him are ‘fake’

Nathan Cofnas has been under fire for his recent blog post where he advocated for ‘the preservation of racial distinctions’

VOTE NOW: Cambridge’s Top 75 BNOCs 2024 revealed

It’s now up to you to decide the top 10…

Cambridge had the fewest applications of all Russell Group Universities last year

Cambridge students, we’re sorry if this hurts your feelings

Every Cambridge May Ball in 2024: Dates, themes and prices

We’re here again doing the work of the people

Cambridge students left embarrassed on University Challenge after forgetting UK had left EU

Let’s hope they’re not studying politics

NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN: Cambridge’s BNOC Competition 2024

Babe wake up, it’s time to nominate for The Tab’s BNOC list

Cambridge University support staff on three day strike over pay row

The union, representing over 450 members of support staff, say they are paid below inflation rates

Cambridge college apologises for targeting Chinese students over mess in toilets

‘It is deeply wrong to make negative assumptions about any one group or community’

Sabrina Carpenter’s wildest Nonsense outros, ranked from cute to chaos

She has no shame and we love it

Seven reasons to join The Cambridge Tab this Lent!

We need YOU on our team