2020-08-21 The University of Cambridge is one of the partners in a major new £32.4m Productivity Institute, announced today by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. One of the main research strands will be led by Professor Anna Vignoles, from the Faculty of Education. Read the full story here. |
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2020-07-24 Keeping schools open from September should be a Government priority as it manages the COVID-19 pandemic, while closures could have severe social and economic effects that endure for decades, according to a new report. Read the full story here. |
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2024-07-11 A new study proposes a framework for “Child Safe AI” following recent incidents which revealed that many children see chatbots as quasi-human and trustworthy even when they put young users at risk.Read the full story. |
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2024-07-10 A new book co-edited by two Faculty members explores the enduring legacy of "Emily of New Moon" marking the centenary of L. M. Montgomery's 'other' heroine after Anne of Green Gables.Read the full story. |
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2024-05-28 A new novel which enters the world of the 17th-century countess renowned as history's "most prolific female murderer" suggests she was actually a revolutionary and book smuggler whose killings were a fiction.Read the full story. |
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2024-05-13 A new British Council report by three members of the Cambridge Network for Disability and Education Research (CaNDER) provides insights into the challenges and opportunities relating to teachers with disabilities around the world. Read the full story. |
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2024-04-08 Mentors delivering a life skills programme for marginalised girls have become agents of change challenging harmful gender social norms in their wider communities new research shows.Read the full story. |
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2024-03-25 A new book by Cambridge and Manchester academics argues that education and technology have always been “entangled” and that advances in areas like artificial intelligence raise an urgent need to re-evaluate the design of future education.Read the full story. |
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2024-03-15 A positive relationship with a teacher at an early age may help children to feel more engaged with school but not necessarily in the long term new research shows.Read the full story. |
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2024-02-26 Amilcar Pereira an Associate Professor of the History of Education at the Faculty of Education Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) recently undertook a visiting fellowship at the University of Cambridge as part of an international study that explores anti-racism and education. In this interview he discusses the need to understand the histories of racism and anti-racism from transnational perspectives the state of anti-racist education now compared with the last 50-60 years and why he believes that students are at the heart of the drive to ensure that universities adapt to wider societal change.Read the full story. |
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