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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2020-11-09 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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2020-10-30 Madeline Platt 22 is a trainee on our Early Primary PGCE course and has been passionate about working with children for as long as she can remember. Because she has dyslexia however she was told by some that she would never be able to pursue an academically-based career. She told us about the journey that led her to a teacher-training course at Cambridge what it’s been like joining the Faculty during a pandemic and why she is starting to think that teachers are basically ‘superhumans’.Read the full interview here. |
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2020-10-22 A new project and website aimed at expanding the reach of research to help the parents and carers of children experiencing language difficulties has been launched coinciding with International Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day. The project is led by researchers at the University of Bath who are collaborating with colleagues here at the Faculty of Education as well as at City University London. Read the full story here |
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2020-10-07 Children are more likely to introduce violent themes into their pretend play such as imaginary fighting or killing if they are with playmates whom peers consider bad-tempered new research suggests.Read the full story here. |
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2020-10-07 Four PhD candidates have been awarded PEDAL studentships – which cover the cost of a PhD course in the Centre for Research on Play in Education Development and Learning (PEDAL) – for 2020. Read the full story here. |
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2020-09-24 Free resources that help parents make COVID-19 sample-taking a little less frightening for children by turning it into a playful experience have been published by University of Cambridge researchers.Read the full story here |
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2020-09-23 The Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) whose work to improve the education of marginalised girls in Africa has been supported through a research partnership with the Faculty has been awarded the world’s largest prize in education.Read the full story here. |
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