A trial in which trainee teachers who were being taught to identify pupils with potential learning difficulties had their work ‘marked’ by artificial intelligence has found the approach significantly improved their reasoning.
Cristiane Derani argues that the war, and sanctions imposed, will spread a wave of food insecurity throughout the world.
Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge, has announced the appointment of Dr Christine Martin as Head of Seed Funds.
Marcel Gehrung, co-founder and CEO of rapidly growing Cambridge biotech company, Cyted, on revolutionising disease diagnostics and the challenges of building a business during a pandemic.
The development of the new Cambridge Mathematics School, in partnership with the University of Cambridge, continues with the appointment of a founding headteacher.
A new guide calls for a broader approach to teaching Latin, one that draws on modern languages education, involving speaking, music and storytelling.
An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan – from a 15 week old fetus to 100 year old adult – that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and slowly shrink as we age.
When Olivia was asked by a teacher on her Access course “have you considered applying to Cambridge?” she thought it was some kind of joke.
Researchers have used a combination of automated text analysis and the ‘robot scientist’ Eve to semi-automate the process of reproducing research results. The problem of lack of reproducibility is one of the biggest crises facing modern science.
Two notebooks belonging to Charles Darwin, one of which contains his iconic 1837 ‘Tree of Life’ sketch, have been safely returned to Cambridge University Library, more than two decades after first being reported missing.
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