2022-02-10 Rosemarie Frost has been teaching secondary school maths for more than 35 years and as a self-confessed ‘compulsive learner’ has continually supplemented that professional experience with a variety of academic and professional development courses. In 2020/21 she completed a part-time Masters course in Maths Education with the Faculty. Here she explains why she chose the course what the experience was like and how it helped her to challenge and refine some of her ideas about what works in mathematics education.Read the full interview |
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2022-02-04 Interviews with teachers at the forefront of international efforts to improve girls’ education reveal that many have taken on humanitarian roles as well as working as educators during the COVID-19 crisis.Read the full story |
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2022-01-21 Promising new education interventions are potentially being ‘unnecessarily scrapped’ because trials to test their effectiveness may be insufficiently faithful to the original research a study has warned.Read the full story |
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2022-01-20 When COVID-19 first forced the country into lockdown Gav Topley a research student at the Faculty whose work examines the challenges facing young men from lower-income settings became concerned about the impact on mental health. He decided to found Lads’ Advice: an online peer support group where men can share problems in a safe encouraging space. Two years on it has transformed life for many of its 5000 members.Read the full story |
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2022-01-12 Newly-published evidence suggests that the simulation-based learning interventions on which trainee healthcare professionals often rely to develop important non-technical skills are being inadequately evaluated before they are potentially put to use.Read the full story |
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2022-01-12 Teaching younger children through ‘guided’ play can support key aspects of their learning and development at least as well and sometimes better than traditional direct instruction according to a new analysis. |
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2022-01-11 After receiving an OBE in the New Year's Honours List for services to international girls' education Professor Pauline Rose discusses recent progress in research on global education for women and girls - and why now more than ever this is a field that deserves wider attention and recognition.Read the full story |
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2022-01-10 Health professionals of the future could soon be training on holograms of patients as a result of a new partnership involving the Faculty of Education.Read the full story |
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2021-12-17 A new ethnographic analysis of some of India’s most successful schools shows how their focus on cultivating ‘active harmony’ rather than traditional academic goals may provide a template for the elusive challenge of teaching ‘citizenship’. Read the full story |
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2021-12-09 The University of Cambridge is announcing the launch of a new research centre the Kavli Centre for Ethics Science and the Public based at the Faculty of Education to engage publics and scientists with the ethical implications of scientific discovery and its impact on society.Read the full story |
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