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2022-04-06 A new guide calls for a rethink of how Latin is taught in universities and schools linking outdated practices to falling student numbers.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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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