2021-02-25 This time last year Fenella Symes 21 was on a high-flying course in pharmacy which given her aptitude for science seemed a natural choice. Then she surprised pretty much everyone by leaving early and embarking on the Primary PGCE course at Cambridge instead. It was quite a leap; but six months later she is glad she trusted her gut and made the choice she did. Here she explains why.Read the full interview. |
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2021-01-13 Education will be one of the subjects on offer to students from the Cambridge Foundation Year: a new programme offering talented students from backgrounds of educational and social disadvantage a new route to undergraduate study at the University of Cambridge. The one-year course which is initially being run as a pilot scheme is aimed at applicants who have the ability to succeed at Cambridge but have been prevented from reaching their full potential by their circumstances. It will prepare students for further learning and offer them the chance to progress straight to an undergraduate degree at Cambridge.Read the full story here. |
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2020-12-18 Many schools in Ethiopia lack the hygiene facilities and infrastructure to control COVID-19 effectively as they reopen for the first time after months of disrupted learning new research indicates. Read the full story here. |
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2020-12-14 Is there more to the Percy Jackson adventures than meets the eye? A new article by Frances Foster from the Centre for Research in Children's Literature suggests these novels may be challenging modern myths as well as old ones. Read the full story here. |
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2020-11-26 The UK government’s 2020 spending review includes a cut in international aid from 0.7% of gross national income to 0.5%. Research shows that this will have severe effects on the lives of girls worldwide. This article by Professor Pauline Rose is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons Licence. You can read the original article here. Or read on the Faculty website here. |
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2020-11-25 The initial results from an evaluation of a higher education outreach programme suggest that it significantly increases prospective students’ self-belief about their ability to learn and thrive at highly-selective universities.Read the full story here. |
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2020-11-20 International development projects that target the education of the world’s very poorest children and marginalised girls also significantly improve other young people’s attainment according to new research that suggests such initiatives should become a priority for international aid.Read the full story here. |
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2020-11-09 What do you do if you love the idea of teaching but also feel passionate about research? In Nicola Morea’s case the answer is: do both. At the age of 29 he has already completed a PGCE and Masters with the Faculty and is now part-way through his PhD. He has also been a professional teacher head of department and mentored another Faculty trainee. He told us why he made the decisions he has and how he has managed to maintain an active interest in teaching research and school leadership.Read the full story here. |
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2020-10-30 Madeline Platt 22 is a trainee on our Early Primary PGCE course and has been passionate about working with children for as long as she can remember. Because she has dyslexia however she was told by some that she would never be able to pursue an academically-based career. She told us about the journey that led her to a teacher-training course at Cambridge what it’s been like joining the Faculty during a pandemic and why she is starting to think that teachers are basically ‘superhumans’.Read the full interview here. |
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2020-10-22 A new project and website aimed at expanding the reach of research to help the parents and carers of children experiencing language difficulties has been launched coinciding with International Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day. The project is led by researchers at the University of Bath who are collaborating with colleagues here at the Faculty of Education as well as at City University London. Read the full story here |
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