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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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Computer generated image of a head by Geralt, via Pixabay / Annie Spratt

ChatGPT, we need to talk

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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Teacher speaking with students

'Reductive' models of wellbeing education risk failing children, researchers warn

21 Jun 2022

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

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 Student performing on rigging at the University of Stockholm’s ‘Department of Circus’, which explores different disciplines through circus arts.

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

06 Jun 2022

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

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Girl using headphones in a classroom

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

03 May 2022

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

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Young boy completes homework

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

11 Apr 2022

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

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'Romans go home'. Mocked-up Roman graffiti, referencing Monty Python’s Life of Brian, at the Hull and East Riding Museum

Lessons from modern languages can reboot Latin learning

07 Apr 2022

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

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