2024-05-22 A growing body of evidence suggests that learners of ancient languages can master them with greater fluency and more enjoyment when they use them in conversation just as students of modern languages do. Much of that work has now been compiled in a new book co-authored by Steve Hunt (subject lecturer for the Classics PGCE teacher training course at the Faculty of Education) and Dr Mair Lloyd (Open University). Read the full story. |
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2024-06-27 Guaranteeing every child the opportunity to participate in certain types of physical activity could support their academic attainment and help to close the achievement gap between wealthy and less-advantaged pupils new research indicates. Read the full story here. |
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2024-05-22 A body of academic research including that of Professor Gordon Harold is being used to inform an expanding programme of policy measures aimed at improving the life chances of young people who are affected by parental conflict.Read the full story here. |
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2021-05-07 Helping parents with higher levels of depression or anxiety could also improve their ability to engage in important and potentially ‘protective’ forms of play with their children new research suggests. Read the full story here. |
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2021-04-28 A former Primary PGCE trainee from the Faculty of Education has been named ‘Teacher of the Year’ by her local authority after parents at her school praised her ‘astounding’ support during lockdown.Read the full story here |
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2021-04-23 A radically reformed approach to education in which different subjects teach connected themes like climate change or food security is being proposed by researchers who argue that it would better prepare children for future crises.Read the full story here. |
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2021-04-22 More young people may choose to study foreign languages to GCSE if they are encouraged to ‘identify’ with languages at school rather than just learning vocabulary and grammar new research suggests.Read the full story here. |
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2021-04-07 Poor children are being ‘failed by the system’ on road to higher education in lower-income countries A generation of talented but disadvantaged children are being denied access to higher education because academic success in lower and middle-income countries is continually ‘protected by wealth’ a study has found.Read the full story here |
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2021-03-26 An ‘astonishing’ deficit of data about how the global boom in educational technology could help pupils with disabilities in low and middle-income countries has been highlighted in a new report.Read the full story here. |
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2021-03-26 A new critical analysis suggests that our relationship with hugely successful series like Stranger Things and particularly some of the more performative acts of fan-worship around them provides us with a template for new ways of thinking and engaging with the world which arguably are stranger still.Read the full story here. |
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