2023-10-12 The University of Cambridge is to pilot a programme offering civil servants and early years professionals personalised access to recent research and a cross-sector network of expertise to help shape solutions to pressing issues in early childhood policy.Read the full story. |
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2023-10-11 Researchers are urging an evidence-based approach to the use of simulations to train medics and teachers amid signs that technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and mixed reality could reshape education in both professions.Read the full story. |
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2023-10-10 A loving bond between parents and their children early in life significantly increases the child’s tendency to be ‘prosocial’ and act with kindness and empathy towards others research indicates.Read the full story. |
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2023-10-20 The leaders of a Cambridge graduate study programme exploring Extended Reality (XR) in arts education suggest that the technology should be at the forefront of wider educational research given its transformative potential.Read the full story. |
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2023-09-19 In many countries play within healthcare settings is a novel concept. Cambridge PhD candidate Paulina Pérez-Duarte Mendiola hopes to change that. Read the full story. |
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2023-09-12 The power of play in promoting children’s mental health and the urgent need for childhood to become a defining ‘lens’ for policy-making were central themes at this year’s PEDAL Conference at the University of Cambridge.Read the full story. |
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2023-08-07 We might think that the average Roman found studying Latin straightforward but new research suggests that even students in Late Antiquity were expected to find literary Latin hard going and learned it partly to differentiate themselves as the ‘cultured few’.Read the full story. |
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2023-07-27 Clare Brooks a leading authority on teacher education whose work emphasises its wider social context impact and purpose has been appointed to a Professorship in Education at the University of Cambridge.Read the full story. |
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2023-07-12 Pupils’ perspectives on home learning during the pandemic Year 6 students’ take on British values and the potential role of ‘insider knowledge’ in religious education are among the thought-provoking topics in JoTTER: the Faculty of Education journal written by new teachers. Read the full story. |
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2023-07-06 Encouraging adolescents to feel capable and purposeful – rather than just happy – could improve their academic results as well as their mental health according to new research which recommends changing how wellbeing is supported in schools.Read the full story. |
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