2021-01-28 Dr Nicola Rollock whose work as both an academic and public intellectual has been widely acclaimed for challenging racism and prejudice in education and wider society is to take up a three-year appointment as Distinguished Fellow at the Faculty of Education.Read the full story here. |
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2021-01-27 To mark Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January 2021) the Faculty is revisiting an article by an alumnus Rabbi David Ariel Sher published by the British Psychological Society last year while David was studying with us. The piece elucidates how the celebrated reputation of the Viennese doctor and pedagogue Hans Asperger was ignominiously shattered as Asperger’s thorough enmeshment in the Nazi machinery of death became known.Read the full article here. |
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2021-01-13 Education will be one of the subjects on offer to students from the Cambridge Foundation Year: a new programme offering talented students from backgrounds of educational and social disadvantage a new route to undergraduate study at the University of Cambridge. The one-year course which is initially being run as a pilot scheme is aimed at applicants who have the ability to succeed at Cambridge but have been prevented from reaching their full potential by their circumstances. It will prepare students for further learning and offer them the chance to progress straight to an undergraduate degree at Cambridge.Read the full story here. |
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2020-12-18 Many schools in Ethiopia lack the hygiene facilities and infrastructure to control COVID-19 effectively as they reopen for the first time after months of disrupted learning new research indicates. Read the full story here. |
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2020-12-14 Is there more to the Percy Jackson adventures than meets the eye? A new article by Frances Foster from the Centre for Research in Children's Literature suggests these novels may be challenging modern myths as well as old ones. Read the full story here. |
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2020-11-26 The UK government’s 2020 spending review includes a cut in international aid from 0.7% of gross national income to 0.5%. Research shows that this will have severe effects on the lives of girls worldwide. This article by Professor Pauline Rose is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons Licence. You can read the original article here. Or read on the Faculty website here. |
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2020-11-25 The initial results from an evaluation of a higher education outreach programme suggest that it significantly increases prospective students’ self-belief about their ability to learn and thrive at highly-selective universities.Read the full story here. |
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2020-11-20 International development projects that target the education of the world’s very poorest children and marginalised girls also significantly improve other young people’s attainment according to new research that suggests such initiatives should become a priority for international aid.Read the full story here. |
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2020-11-12 The early talk and communication that children experience when very young, though essential in preparing them for school, has no direct impact on their reading and writing skills by age 11, new research shows. Read the full story here. |
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2020-11-09 What do you do if you love the idea of teaching but also feel passionate about research? In Nicola Morea’s case the answer is: do both. At the age of 29 he has already completed a PGCE and Masters with the Faculty and is now part-way through his PhD. He has also been a professional teacher head of department and mentored another Faculty trainee. He told us why he made the decisions he has and how he has managed to maintain an active interest in teaching research and school leadership.Read the full story here. |
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