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'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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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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School

Extra classroom time may do little to help pupils recover lost learning after COVID-19

28 May 2021

Adding extra classroom time to the school day may only result in marginal gains for pupils who have lost learning during the COVID pandemic, a study...

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Dominoes 3

Young children use physics, not previous rewards, to learn about tools

23 Feb 2018

Children as young as seven apply basic laws of physics to problem-solving, rather than learning from what has previously been rewarded, suggests new...

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Lucy Kivlin and her baby Ginny

Eye contact with your baby helps synchronise your brainwaves

29 Nov 2017

Making eye contact with an infant makes adults’ and babies’ brainwaves ‘get in sync’ with each other – which is likely to support communication and...

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Opinion: Genetics: what it is that makes you clever – and why it’s shrouded in controversy

21 Apr 2016

Daphne Martschenko (Faculty of Education) discusses the concept of intelligence and the drive to identify and quantify it.

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Frontal lobe

Education and the brain: what happens when children learn?

10 Feb 2016

Have you lost your house keys recently? If so, you probably applied a spot of logical thinking. You looked first in the most obvious places – bags...

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Rafael Nadal @ Roland Garros

Practice really does make perfect

08 Jan 2015

New research into the way in which we learn new skills finds that a single skill can be learned faster if its follow-through motion is consistent...

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Lifelong learning and the plastic brain

19 Nov 2014

Our brains are plastic. They continually remould neural connections as we learn, experience and adapt. Now researchers are asking if new...

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Kids taking part in the Sonic Pi summer school, plus screenshot of code.

Creating music in classrooms using code teaches ‘risk-taking’ in next generation

04 Nov 2014

Research into new education practices that fuse computing with music-making shows they create “enquiry-rich” conditions that empower children to take...

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How to tell a missile from a pylon: a tale of two cortices

02 Oct 2014

During the Second World War, analysts pored over stereoscopic aerial reconnaissance photographs, becoming experts at identifying potential targets...

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