2022-01-20 When COVID-19 first forced the country into lockdown Gav Topley a research student at the Faculty whose work examines the challenges facing young men from lower-income settings became concerned about the impact on mental health. He decided to found Lads’ Advice: an online peer support group where men can share problems in a safe encouraging space. Two years on it has transformed life for many of its 5000 members.Read the full story |
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2022-01-12 Newly-published evidence suggests that the simulation-based learning interventions on which trainee healthcare professionals often rely to develop important non-technical skills are being inadequately evaluated before they are potentially put to use.Read the full story |
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2022-01-12 Teaching younger children through ‘guided’ play can support key aspects of their learning and development at least as well and sometimes better than traditional direct instruction according to a new analysis. |
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2022-01-11 After receiving an OBE in the New Year's Honours List for services to international girls' education Professor Pauline Rose discusses recent progress in research on global education for women and girls - and why now more than ever this is a field that deserves wider attention and recognition.Read the full story |
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2022-01-10 Health professionals of the future could soon be training on holograms of patients as a result of a new partnership involving the Faculty of Education.Read the full story |
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2021-12-17 A new ethnographic analysis of some of India’s most successful schools shows how their focus on cultivating ‘active harmony’ rather than traditional academic goals may provide a template for the elusive challenge of teaching ‘citizenship’. Read the full story |
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2021-12-09 The University of Cambridge is announcing the launch of a new research centre the Kavli Centre for Ethics Science and the Public based at the Faculty of Education to engage publics and scientists with the ethical implications of scientific discovery and its impact on society.Read the full story |
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2021-12-09 Researchers have launched a three-year international study which aims to examine political and economic pressures that are changing the fundamental role and character of universities globally particularly in relation to their mission to serve a wider ‘public good’ and to reduce societal conflict.Read the full story |
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2021-11-26 The University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education has become the first institution outside Brazil to install one of a series of iconic sculptures of Paulo Freire: a giant of educational thought whose ideas are under attack from the country’s Government.Read the full story |
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2021-11-22 A rapid increase in the number of private schools in lower-income parts of the world is having surprisingly little effect – and in certain cases perhaps no real impact at all – on learning researchers have found.Read the full story |
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