2023-09-12 The power of play in promoting children’s mental health and the urgent need for childhood to become a defining ‘lens’ for policy-making were central themes at this year’s PEDAL Conference at the University of Cambridge.Read the full story. |
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2023-08-07 We might think that the average Roman found studying Latin straightforward but new research suggests that even students in Late Antiquity were expected to find literary Latin hard going and learned it partly to differentiate themselves as the ‘cultured few’.Read the full story. |
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2023-07-27 Clare Brooks a leading authority on teacher education whose work emphasises its wider social context impact and purpose has been appointed to a Professorship in Education at the University of Cambridge.Read the full story. |
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2023-07-12 Pupils’ perspectives on home learning during the pandemic Year 6 students’ take on British values and the potential role of ‘insider knowledge’ in religious education are among the thought-provoking topics in JoTTER: the Faculty of Education journal written by new teachers. Read the full story. |
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2023-07-06 Encouraging adolescents to feel capable and purposeful – rather than just happy – could improve their academic results as well as their mental health according to new research which recommends changing how wellbeing is supported in schools.Read the full story. |
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2023-06-23 An innovative approach which integrates language learning with other subjects has exhibited notable benefits in a project undertaken by the University of Cambridge suggesting that it could be successful in schools.Read the full story. |
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2023-06-14 Children displayed a resilient capacity to continue playing during peak COVID-19 a study has found even though their options to do so became more limited while under stay-at-home orders.Read the full story. |
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2023-06-09 School leaders in England feel compelled to continue using a system of escalating punitive measures to manage student behaviour even though they recognise it fails some pupils new research suggests.Read the full story. |
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2023-05-31 An evaluation of UK Government-backed education programmes in lower-income countries shows that interventions which deliberately target girls with disabilities can reach far beyond the classroom potentially transforming their aspirations and self-esteem.Read the full story. |
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2023-05-30 Teachers from the University of Cambridge’s partnership schools will participate in follow-up trials of a mind management programme that evidence suggests could reduce burnout and improve wellbeing in the profession.Read the full story |
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