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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2024-01-19 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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A tiny fraction of schools in England – about three in every 500 – have whole-school policies which address foreign languages English usage and integrating students who speak English as an additional language (EAL) new research indicates. Read the full story. |
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Cambridge has become home to the first leadership forum for community-based ‘supplementary’ education informal schools which provide extra education for children from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds.Read the full story. |
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A global study of 240000 students challenges the widespread policy conviction that bridging the academic gap between rich and poor students hinges on improving the latter’s work ethic mindset and socio-emotional skills.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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2023-10-27 Intense public pressure on teachers to “get back to school” during the COVID-19 lockdowns deepened an already widespread sense that they were undervalued and left some actively rethinking their careers research shows.Read the full story. |
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