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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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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2025-06-11 As the REAL Centre reaches its 10th anniversary, this roundup summarises the research it has produced during its first decade and its impact on policy, aid funding and education reform. Read the full story. |
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2025-05-13 A sharp drop in aid for pre-primary education may be the first sign that the international community is turning its back on the world’s most vulnerable children amid wider economic strain, a new report warns. Read the full story. |
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2025-05-08 Artificial Intelligence (AI) was once seen as something that humans made and controlled. Now, some fear that Generative AI might outperform its creators. According to a new study, however, both perspectives – of AI as a tool we command, or a force we should fear – are missing the point. Read the full story. |
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2025-04-10 Education projects supporting marginalised girls in low- and lower-middle-income countries are more likely to achieve lasting transformations when they work through, as well as with young women and their communities by mobilising them as “agents of change”, a new report indicates. Read the full story. |
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2025-04-01 A new set of “three R’s” – Rights, Resources and Research – is urgently needed to prevent education systems worldwide from failing young people with disabilities, a major international summit will hear this week. Read the full story. |
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