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Changing Course on Climate

09 Feb 2024

The global publishing and assessment arm of the University of Cambridge is calling on teachers in 160 countries to help improve climate change...

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Childrens talk, English & Latin : divided into several clauses

Opinion: ‘Difficult’ Latin risks remaining a qualification for elite pupils

02 Nov 2015

Francesca Middleton (Faculty of Classics) discusses the reform of GCSEs and Latin's reputation as an academically demanding subject.

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Testing Times Ahead

Post-16 education must be reformed to tackle damaging arts-science divide

04 Sep 2015

Why is it acceptable to say “I never could do maths” but not “I’ve never read any Shakespeare”? It’s symptomatic of the art-science divide that can...

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365.060 - Watching TV

Use of TV, internet and computer games associated with poorer GCSE grades

04 Sep 2015

Each extra hour per day spent watching TV, using the internet or playing computer games during Year 10 is associated with poorer grades at GCSE at...

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Evening watching television

Every hour you spend in front of a screen is linked to poorer exam results

04 Sep 2015

We need to think about how our teenagers spend their spare time, writes Dr Kirsten Corder from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the...

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