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Faculty News

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
2022-02-12
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
2022-02-13
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
2022-02-10

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
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
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
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