2021-02-03 Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathise with others measurably improves their creativity and could potentially lead to several other beneficial learning outcomes new research suggests.Read the full story here. |
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2021-01-29 One of the first academic studies to examine the working lives of disabled teachers in England has called for urgent change after finding evidence of significant workplace discrimination and barriers to their career progression.Read the full story here. |
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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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2021-01-28 A newly-launched University of Cambridge project aims to explore the possibilities that digital technologies have opened up in the field of education – many of which would have been unimaginable even a decade ago. The Digital Education Futures Initiative (DEFI) is based at the Cambridge college Hughes Hall and a number of members of the Faculty of Education are involved in its core team. Read the full story here. |
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2021-01-28 A research project which asked University of Cambridge staff and students to describe their biggest hopes – and darkest fears – for post-pandemic higher education has found that many would support a permanent but partial shift to online learning.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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2021-02-25 This time last year Fenella Symes 21 was on a high-flying course in pharmacy which given her aptitude for science seemed a natural choice. Then she surprised pretty much everyone by leaving early and embarking on the Primary PGCE course at Cambridge instead. It was quite a leap; but six months later she is glad she trusted her gut and made the choice she did. Here she explains why.Read the full interview. |
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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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