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Faculty News

2022-08-16

A free library of resources to help early childhood education practitioners support the development of young children’s language and literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills has been released online. Read the full story here.

2022-07-27
PhD candidate Nomisha Kurian has become the first student from the Faculty of Education to receive the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) award for “outstanding research with clear application”.Read the full story
2022-07-10
The Cambridge Latin Course a mainstay of Latin learning in British schools since the 1970s has just had one of the most significant rewrites in its 50-year history. Alongside other aims it addresses concerns raised by teachers academics and students about the representation of women enslaved people and minorities in the Roman world.Read the full story
2022-07-05
With its distinctive homemade and often counter-cultural feel and common focus on social justice issues there is much that connects the under-exposed art of brilliant comics artists and graphic novelists across the Global South. An event at the University of Cambridge this week aims to show why this work deserves more attention and to build connections between diverse artists and the scholars who study their work.Read the full story.
2022-06-30
Programme will focus on unpacking the policy practice and research of education of refugee children in the global north and south.Read the full story
2022-06-30
Children who suddenly appear to lose the thread of an otherwise obvious conversation may be struggling to reconcile two essential communicative skills: understanding inference and taking another person’s viewpoint research shows.Read the full story.
2022-06-27
Professor Riikka Hofmann at the Faculty of Education is leading analysis of a new way of teaching medical students at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge using the latest in mixed reality holographic patients.Read the full story
2022-06-21
A new five-year partnership on the ‘Future of Work’ will examine the big issues affecting the modern workforce and offer practical research-backed solutions to support and enhance workforce and workplace experiences in the future. The initial programme focusing on mental wellbeing will be led by Professor Gordon Harold at the Faculty of Education.Read the full story
2022-06-21
An improved vision for wellbeing education should replace the over-simplistic approaches currently employed in many schools such as happiness lessons which risk creating an “atmosphere of toxic positivity” for pupils experts say.Read the full story
2022-06-14
Children who learn to play well with others at pre-school age tend to enjoy better mental health as they get older new research shows.Read the full story