2022-11-04 Could a Latin American-style community takeover inspire new solutions in Britain’s least equal city? A group of Cambridge students are organising a Latin American-inspired ‘community takeover’ of part of their university to explore how the approach might help to address inequalities within the city.Read the full story. |
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2022-10-14 The outcomes of a pan-European project which trialled the hands-on learning approach known as ‘Tinkering’ show that it could be used to develop the STEM skills of adults who are underserved and underrepresented in those subjects.Read the full story |
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2022-10-12 Some assessment tools which measure children’s thinking skills may have provided inaccurate information about poor urban students because they are modelled on wealthier – mostly white – populations.Read the full story |
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2022-10-07 Data from Rwanda including some of the first published information on school enrolment rates in the Global South since the COVID-19 outbreak suggest a widely-predicted spike in drop-outs has ‘not materialised’. Researchers warn however that a slower-than-expected decline in numbers may now be underway.Read the full story. |
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2022-09-17 Disney’s Encanto could be ‘cinematherapy’ for children coping with the psychological effects of trauma a new professional analysis suggests.Read the full story |
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2022-09-02 Faculty researcher and comics expert Joe Sutliff Sanders discusses his early passion for Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman and how Netflix’s new adaptation challenges ideas about who ‘owns’ comics and culture.Read the full story |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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