2022-03-30 A payment on results approach to delivering education aid which is championed by international institutions including the World Bank is in danger of backfiring in some of the countries it aims to help researchers believe.Read the full story |
 |
2022-03-04 The tiny minority of state-educated students who take Ancient History at GCSE worry that the subject’s exclusive reputation will brand them ‘elitist’ in the eyes of friends and relatives research suggests.Read the full story |
 |
2022-03-02 Parents and teachers of Jewish autistic children say they frequently have to disregard outdated professional advice not to teach them Hebrew – a recommendation they describe as “stealing” their cultural identity.Read the full story |
 |
2022-02-28 A Cambridge student has started a play and health initiative that she hopes will eventually grow into a ‘revolution’ in paediatric care and encourage more child-friendly playful approaches in the field.Read the full story |
 |
2022-02-16 Researchers have urged aid organisations and governments in sub-Saharan Africa to strengthen their plans for emergency pre-primary education which evidence suggests prevented ‘alarming’ learning losses in the region during COVID school closures.Read the full story |
 |
2022-02-13 Ahead of the 2022 Global Disability Summit and its focus on inclusive education this article summarises some of the evidence and findings produced by the Cambridge Network for Disability and Education Research (CaNDER) since the inaugural summit in 2018.Read the full article |
 |
2022-02-12 Students who study Virgil’s Aeneid at school find it significantly more engaging than other ‘high-prestige’ literature even though they only learn tiny fragments of the text research suggests. Read the full story |
 |
2022-02-10 Rosemarie Frost has been teaching secondary school maths for more than 35 years and as a self-confessed ‘compulsive learner’ has continually supplemented that professional experience with a variety of academic and professional development courses. In 2020/21 she completed a part-time Masters course in Maths Education with the Faculty. Here she explains why she chose the course what the experience was like and how it helped her to challenge and refine some of her ideas about what works in mathematics education.Read the full interview |
 |
2022-02-04 Interviews with teachers at the forefront of international efforts to improve girls’ education reveal that many have taken on humanitarian roles as well as working as educators during the COVID-19 crisis.Read the full story |
 |
2022-01-21 Promising new education interventions are potentially being ‘unnecessarily scrapped’ because trials to test their effectiveness may be insufficiently faithful to the original research a study has warned.Read the full story |
 |