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Children leaving school in Ale, Ethiopia

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

30 Mar 2022

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

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NRICH: nurturing next-generation problem solvers

30 Mar 2022

NRICH spent the last two years in emergency rescue mode, helping learners in lockdown. Its online resources attracted over a million page views per...

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Portrait of Sappho

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

04 Mar 2022

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

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The life of Pi: Ten years of Raspberry Pi

25 Feb 2022

The most successful computer ever to come out of the UK celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.

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Investment in languages education could return double for UK economy

22 Feb 2022

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

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Virgil has the edge on Shakespeare in helping students to love literature

14 Feb 2022

Students who study Virgil’s Aeneid at school find it significantly more engaging than other ‘high-prestige’ literature, even though they only learn...

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Teachers leading global drive to improve girls’ education became frontline workers during COVID-19 closures

04 Feb 2022

Interviews with teachers at the forefront of international efforts to improve girls’ education reveal that many have taken on humanitarian roles, as...

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Raise the floor: education that works for everyone

24 Jan 2022

The evidence that convinced the international community that putting disadvantaged children first creates education systems that work for everyone.

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Learning through 'guided' play can be as effective as adult-led instruction

12 Jan 2022

Play-based learning may also have a more positive effect on younger children’s acquisition of important early maths skills compared with traditional...

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Saying goodbye

Students who self-identify as multilingual perform better at GCSE

11 Nov 2021

Young people who consider themselves ‘multilingual’ tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are...

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"It’s almost as if they don’t exist”: Education policy fails to account for PMLD learners

09 Nov 2021

The policy framework that supposedly guides education for pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) is setting expectations and...

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Overworked woman

Heads reveal how ‘overwhelming’ Government guidance held schools back as COVID hit

05 Aug 2021

Headteachers and school leaders have described how an ‘avalanche’ of confused and shifting Government guidance severely impeded schools during the...

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