2024-05-22 A simple game in which children plan feeding time at an imaginary zoo could significantly improve how we measure young people’s metacognition – the all-important ability to ‘think about thinking’.Read the full story |
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2024-05-22 Adding extra classroom time to the school day may only result in marginal gains for pupils who have lost learning during the COVID pandemic a study says.Read the full story |
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2024-07-03 An international review of how technology was used early in the COVID school lockdowns suggests that important strategies to support effective remote learning are being neglected in the rush to embrace digital tools and platforms.Read the full story here. |
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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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