Make Indian Sign Language official language and open more schools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, study advises

Around one in five (over 19%) of India’s deaf and hard-of-hearing children were out-of-school in 2014, according to a survey conducted for the Indian

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 17, 2025 ~6 min

Autistic perspectives sought for new study on comics and inclusion

Autistic people in the UK are being invited to participate in a University of Cambridge-led project exploring the uniquely powerful connection between autism

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Jan. 23, 2025 ~6 min


War in Lebanon has turned a decade of education crisis into a catastrophe - report

Israel-Hezbollah conflict has deepened an education crisis in which children have lost up to 60% of schooling in 6 years, study shows.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Dec. 5, 2024 ~8 min

Palestinian education ‘under attack’, leaving a generation close to losing hope, study warns

Ongoing war in Gaza will set children and young people’s education back by up to five years, report suggests.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 25, 2024 ~9 min

One term of empathy training measurably improved classroom behaviour

A study involving 900 students in six countries found that a short programme of empathy lessons led to measurable, positive changes in their conduct, emotional

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Aug. 28, 2024 ~7 min

New Cambridge-developed resources help students learn how maths can help tackle infectious diseases

Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle infectious

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 19, 2024 ~5 min

New Cambridge-developed resources bring infectious diseases into the maths classroom

Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle infectious

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 19, 2024 ~5 min

Disadvantaged children’s school struggles not about character, attitude or lack of ‘growth mindset’, study suggests

A global study of 240,000 students challenges the widespread policy conviction that bridging the academic gap between rich and poor students hinges on

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Dec. 19, 2023 ~6 min


Sustained, purposeful investment key to ‘leaving no girl behind’, either in education or beyond

A UK-funded programme to support out-of-school girls in low-income countries has significantly enhanced their learning, confidence, opportunities and

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 19, 2023 ~9 min

Helping adolescents to feel competent and purposeful – not just happy – may improve grades

Study of 600 teenagers suggests that having stronger self-awareness and sense of purpose may raise GCSE Maths scores “by a couple of grades”.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
July 6, 2023 ~7 min

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