2025-12-17 An experimental project at a Cambridgeshire schools trust in which sixth formers stepped into the shoes of teachers has found that the approach can generate valuable forms of learning that complement more conventional lessons.Read the story here. |
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2025-12-15 A new version of the first ever major exhibition exploring how Black people have been represented in UK children’s literature visits Cambridge’s Central Library from 15 December.Read the story here. |
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2025-12-04 A newly-published study shows strong public support for Religious Education (RE) in Northern Ireland to help pupils understand a wide range of different religious and non-religious worldviews, including Muslim, Humanist and atheist perspectives. Read the story here. |
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2025-11-17 Generative Artificial Intelligence could result in a renewed emphasis on conversational approaches to teaching, researchers say, as large language model (LLMs)-based chatbots make it easier to bypass recall-based learning and test the limits of traditional exams.Read the story here. |
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2025-10-02 Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a language to GCSE is treated as optional – and not necessarily strongly encouraged – new research shows.Read the story here. |
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2025-09-29 A new book by the Head of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education calls for radical change in a school system it describes as over-standardised, stressful, and ‘sick’.Read the full story. |
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2024-11-14 A new prize for education and social justice research in South Asia has been launched in memory of Dr Arif Naveed. Arif was an outstanding Pakistani social scientist who undertook his doctoral research at the Faculty of Education. Very sadly, he died last year at the age of just 42. Appropriately for a Pakistani scholar who held a deep commitment to promoting social justice and equality through education in South Asia, the prize will be awarded annually to an outstanding Masters or doctoral student at the University of Cambridge (current or past) for published research focusing on these issues in a South Asian context. Its launch was announced by Professor Kamal Munir, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Community and Engagement at the University of Cambridge, at the 25th anniversary celebrations of Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), which promotes progressive education in Pakistan. It was also announced by Arif’s PhD supervisor, Professor Madeleine Arnot, at the BAICE Early Career Researcher conference in Oxford. Arif had served on the BAICE Student Committee, helped launch their Student Fieldwork Grant, and co-hosted the 2016 Student Conference. Arif was born in south Punjab and studied at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, the University of Bath and the University of Cambridge, where he was awarded a Gates scholarship for his PhD. His doctoral research explored how education in Pakistan could be rethought to meet local priorities and citizens’ aspirations. He later held a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship and lectureship at Bath. Prior to his untimely death, Arif undertook influential and widely celebrated work which, as well as persistently traversing disciplinary boundaries and illuminating new intellectual connections in the process, challenged ideas about mass schooling in the Global South and provided evidence for a wider reform agenda which put inequalities at the heart of education policy. Arif’s wife and daughter, along with colleagues and friends, were present for the announcements of the award. More information about the prize can be found here. A celebration of Arif’s life can be found here. here. |
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2025-09-18 The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge.Read the full story. |
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2025-09-17 Newly-published evidence shows that a brief relationship-based intervention for families can protect against children developing behaviour problems years later.Read the full story. |
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2025-06-23 Many doctors abandon a potentially life-saving medical scanning technology soon after training, because systemic barriers prevent it from becoming part of their routine practice, a study has found. Read the full story. |
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