2022-06-04 A group of education specialists are urging researchers to challenge the “structures and regulations” which define academic scholarship arguing that different approaches are needed in an age of climate change COVID-19 and rising populism. Read the full story |
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2022-05-30 Fake news and misinformation are now commonplace across social platforms and arguably the staple of some conventional media outlets as well. Should we therefore be trying to do more to prepare young people to critique the information they receive? Following an event on fake news and education at the Faculty last week this article explores some questions on that theme. Read the full story |
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2022-05-20 The Reducing Parental Conflict Programme which draws on the work of Professor Gordon Harold at the Faculty of Education is being expanded with £33 million of Government funding.Read the full story |
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2022-05-19 A survey of how academics use social media to encourage people to interact with their research argues that much of the public value of their work is probably being overlooked in official ‘impact’ assessments. Read the full story here. |
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2022-05-12 The Faculty of Education has been confirmed as one of the country’s leading departments for research in education in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). Read the full story |
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2022-05-09 Two exiled Brazilian academics and the director of a powerful new documentary about media corruption will join scholars in Cambridge this month for a special event examining fake news misinformation and education.Read the full story. |
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2022-05-03 Parents influence children’s attitudes to languages far more than their teachers or friends research finds. This implies that efforts to reverse the national decline in language-learning need to target families as well as schools.Read the full story |
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2022-04-14 A new collaboration involving researchers careers specialists and inclusive recruitment organisations aims to address the ‘offer gap’ in postgraduate admissions. The term refers to a gulf in application success rates which means too few people from historically marginalised ethnic minority backgrounds are undertaking advanced study at British universities.Read the full story |
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2022-04-11 A trial in which German trainee teachers who were being taught to identify pupils with potential learning difficulties had their work ‘marked’ by artificial intelligence has found the approach significantly improved their reasoning.Read the full story. |
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2022-04-06 A new guide calls for a rethink of how Latin is taught in universities and schools linking outdated practices to falling student numbers. The book advocates a broader approach which draws on modern languages education involving speaking music storytelling and immersive Latin teaching.Read the full story |
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