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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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