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Bicycle at Dept of Earth Sciences

A-level results day

17 Aug 2023

Celebrating the achievements of those coming to Cambridge

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Character with VR goggles

What is the metaverse – and will it help us or harm us?

27 Jul 2023

An interconnected world of extended reality is coming that will reshape how we work, play and communicate – and expose us to new levels of risk. What...

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Classroom scene

Applauding the teachers

11 Jul 2023

Cambridge hands out first Educator Awards to teachers who've been nominated by former pupils who are now studying at the University.

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Students in the classroom

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

06 Jul 2023

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

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A young child drinks from a water tap

Foresters bring Cambridge 'water curriculum' to Indian Himalayas

29 Jun 2023

Foresters across the mountainous northeastern Indian state of Nagaland will help roll out a unique programme of environmental education, co-developed...

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Boy in school corridor

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

07 Jun 2023

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

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Children in Idlib Governorate, Syria: one of the countries most seriously affected by the underfunding of pre-primary education

Richest nations drift further away from 10% aid goal for pre-primary education

17 May 2023

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...

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ChatGPT: opportunities and challenges for education

05 Apr 2023

Since its public release, ChatGPT has experienced widespread adoption. Its role in education, however, remains a topic of contention. Two researchers...

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BaYaka camp in Congo. Image courtesy of Nikhil Chaudhary

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

07 Mar 2023

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

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Young children in Ethiopia

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

30 Nov 2022

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

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School assessments

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

12 Oct 2022

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

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Schoolchildren in Rwanda

Students in Rwanda confound pandemic predictions and head back to school

07 Oct 2022

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-...

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