2023-01-17 More effort than ever is being put into building awareness of science and the public and ethical challenges it raises but many people still regard scientists and their work with suspicion. Scientists themselves meanwhile often address these concerns late in the research process – and sometimes not at all. The Faculty of Education’s newest research centre is dedicated to addressing both problems from new and inventive angles. It all starts with learning to say ‘Hello’.Read the full story. |
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2023-01-05 Hilda a series of graphic novels about an 11-year-old girl in a magical realist world has acquired an international fanbase and critical acclaim. As a new study explains there is more to its appeal than sheer escapism.Read the full story |
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2022-12-19 Researchers have trialled a new approach to testing students’ ‘computational thinking’ in terms which go far beyond the programming skills learned in computing lessons.Read the full story. |
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2022-11-29 School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have “severely ruptured” the social and emotional development of some of the world’s poorest children as well as their academic progress new evidence shows.Read the full story |
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2022-11-23 Research based on data from 11000 students charted an across-the-board fall in well-being regardless of circumstances between ages 11 and 14.Read the full story |
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2022-11-14 Chronic underfunding of care and education in the first few years of life is holding back children’s healthy development in the world’s poorest countries a new report shows.Read the full story. |
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2022-11-11 A new approach to medical training which involves expert contributions from members of the Faculty of Education has been included in Time Magazine’s 200 Best Inventions of 2022.Read the full story |
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2022-11-08 Digital technology has yet to redefine music education but there is growing awareness that it could. Jennie Francis who leads the Secondary PGCE Music course at the Cambridge and James Tuck - a musician educator and Cambridge graduate - explain how music technology could make the subject more exciting and accessible than ever before.Read the full story. |
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2022-10-25 Leading and learning are often mentioned in the same breath – but when we talk about ‘leadership’ in education what (and who) do we mean? In January the University of Cambridge will be running a course for current professionals on ‘Leadership for Learning with Dialogue’. Drawing on decades of international research on the subject its aim is to equip teachers and other practitioners with a working knowledge of what it means to ‘lead’ for learning – and how this can enable meaningful and positive changes in schools universities and beyond.Read the full story |
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2022-11-04 The government’s £320 million drive to help primary schools promote children’s physical health is in danger of failing because most of the teacher development it funds is ineffective new research on similar initiatives suggests.Read the full story. |
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