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Project seeks nation’s most memorised poems to investigate power of poetry ‘by heart’

02 Oct 2014

By aiming to discover the UK’s most memorised poems, a new research project – backed by a former Poet Laureate – will explore the poems that live in...

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Getting schooled in the ‘noise’: learning about learning using big data

30 Sep 2013

Brits notoriously love bureaucracy, so it’s perhaps unsurprising that the UK is a world leader in administrative data. With the digital era heralding...

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"Back to School". Homepage banner image by Woodley Wonderworks via Flickr

School starting age: the evidence

24 Sep 2013

Earlier this month the "Too Much, Too Soon" campaign made headlines with a letter calling for a change to the start age for formal learning in...

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University of Cambridge Museums promise summer of fun

19 Jul 2013

On Saturday July 20, the University launches its annual Summer at the Museums project which this year takes place across 18 different museums in...

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Illustration by Sarah Castor-Perry for 'Where Did Humans Go During the Last Ice Age?'

Big ideas in small packages

20 Mar 2013

A video project demonstrates how academic research can be communicated in an engaging format that puts across complex ideas in a nutshell.

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Science Festival at Chemistry Dept

Out-of-the-box learning

21 Jun 2012

A new book documents how staff at a primary school built on a previous study by Cambridge researchers to create an inclusive learning environment -...

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