2024-05-22 A significant perception shift about how academics and universities share their research on social media is urgently needed according to new analysis which calls for a more ‘subversive’ approach to engaging audiences online.Read the full story. |
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2024-05-13 A new British Council report by three members of the Cambridge Network for Disability and Education Research (CaNDER) provides insights into the challenges and opportunities relating to teachers with disabilities around the world. Read the full story. |
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2024-04-17 The University of Cambridge is launching a short course for teachers to help them integrate museum objects and collections into their practice through “object-based learning”.Read the full story |
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2024-04-08 Mentors delivering a life skills programme for marginalised girls have become agents of change challenging harmful gender social norms in their wider communities new research shows.Read the full story. |
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2024-03-25 A new book by Cambridge and Manchester academics argues that education and technology have always been “entangled” and that advances in areas like artificial intelligence raise an urgent need to re-evaluate the design of future education.Read the full story. |
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2024-03-15 A positive relationship with a teacher at an early age may help children to feel more engaged with school but not necessarily in the long term new research shows.Read the full story. |
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2024-02-26 Amilcar Pereira an Associate Professor of the History of Education at the Faculty of Education Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) recently undertook a visiting fellowship at the University of Cambridge as part of an international study that explores anti-racism and education. In this interview he discusses the need to understand the histories of racism and anti-racism from transnational perspectives the state of anti-racist education now compared with the last 50-60 years and why he believes that students are at the heart of the drive to ensure that universities adapt to wider societal change.Read the full story. |
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2024-02-15 School uniform policies could be restricting young people from being active particularly primary school-aged girls new research suggests.Read the full story. |
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2024-01-23 Millennials a generation often characterised as less wealthy than their parents are not uniformly worse off than their Baby Boomer counterparts according to new research. They are however contending with a “vast and increasing” wealth gap due to the uneven financial rewards reaped from different life and career paths compared with their Boomer predecessors. This creates the impression that as a generation they are losing out.Read the full story. |
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2024-01-19 Fifteen civil servants and local leaders from across the UK have embarked on a customised learning programme at the University of Cambridge which will match relevant research insights to their work supporting babies and young children.Read the full story. |
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