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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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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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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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A participant at an NRICH event

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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A Raspberry Pi.

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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Researchers and children at the PEDAL Centre during the Cambridge Festival

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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