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

Trainee teachers made sharper assessments about learning difficulties after receiving feedback from AI

A trial in which trainee teachers who were being taught to identify pupils with potential learning difficulties had their work ‘marked’ by artificial

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 11, 2022 ~7 min

Lessons from modern languages can reboot Latin learning

A new guide calls for a broader approach to teaching Latin, one that draws on modern languages education, involving speaking, music and storytelling.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 7, 2022 ~7 min

Poorly conceived payment-on-results funding threatens to undermine education aid

Analysis of a results-based-financing programme for education aid in Ethiopia finds that multiple aspects of the arrangement were unfit for purpose from the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 30, 2022 ~7 min


Students taking GCSE Ancient History worry they appear ‘elitist’ to friends and family

The tiny minority of state-educated students who take Ancient History at GCSE worry that the subject’s exclusive reputation will brand them ‘elitist’ in the

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 4, 2022 ~6 min

Investment in languages education could return double for UK economy

An increase in secondary school pupils learning Arabic, Mandarin, French or Spanish could boost the UK economy by billions of pounds over 30 years, according

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 22, 2022 ~4 min

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