Limited resources leave school leaders with few options to manage poor behaviour

School leaders in England feel compelled to continue using a system of escalating punitive measures to manage student behaviour, even though they recognise it

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 7, 2023 ~7 min

Pre-primary education "chronically” underfunded as richest nations drift further away from 10% aid goal

New research shows proportion of international education aid for early childhood learning fell to just 1.1% post-pandemic, far short of an agreed 10% target.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 17, 2023 ~7 min


Hunter-gatherer childhoods may offer clues to improving education and wellbeing in developed countries

Hunter-gatherers can help us understand the conditions that children may be psychologically adapted to because we lived as hunter-gatherers for 95% of our

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 8, 2023 ~9 min

COVID has 'ruptured' social skills of the world’s poorest children, study suggests

Two interlinked studies, involving 8,000 primary pupils altogether, indicate children lost at least a third of a year in learning during lockdown.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Nov. 30, 2022 ~7 min

Assessments of thinking skills may misrepresent poor, inner-city children in the US

Some of the assessment tools which measure children’s thinking skills in the US may have provided inaccurate information about poor, urban students because

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 12, 2022 ~6 min

Students in Rwanda confound pandemic predictions and head back to school

New data from Rwanda, and some of the first published on how COVID-19 has impacted school attendance in the Global South, suggest that a widely-predicted spike

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Oct. 7, 2022 ~6 min

“Reductive” models of wellbeing education risk failing children unless improved, researchers warn

An improved vision for wellbeing education should replace the over-simplistic approaches currently employed in many schools, such as happiness lessons, which

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 21, 2022 ~8 min

“Write fewer papers, take more risks”: researchers call for ‘rebellion’

A group of education specialists are urging researchers to challenge the “structures and regulations” which define academic scholarship, arguing that different

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 6, 2022 ~7 min


“Write fewer papers, take more risks”: researchers call for ‘rebellion’ against academic convention

A group of education specialists are urging researchers to challenge the “structures and regulations” which define academic scholarship, arguing that different

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 6, 2022 ~7 min

Want more students to learn languages? Win over the parents, research suggests

Parents influence children’s attitudes to languages far more than their teachers or friends, research finds. This implies that efforts to reverse the national

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 3, 2022 ~7 min

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