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CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Clare Brooks

06 Mar 2024

Clare Brooks is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge. She will be speaking in a Question Time-style panel discussion on the teacher...

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New Cambridge-developed resources help students learn how maths can help tackle infectious diseases

19 Feb 2024

Cambridge mathematicians have developed a set of resources for students and teachers that will help them understand how maths can help tackle...

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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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'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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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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New Janeway Institute to transform economic research

19 Oct 2021

The new Janeway Institute will be conducting and disseminating research at the frontier of economics, according to founder and alumnus William...

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Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census

13 May 2021

Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census.

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Teaching pupils to ‘think like Da Vinci’ will help them to take on climate change

23 Apr 2021

Curriculum reforms which mix the arts and sciences will better prepare young people for the real-world challenges that will define their adult lives...

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Mixed early progress highlights need for sustained support for pupils with English as an additional language

16 Jul 2020

Newly-arrived pupils who speak English as an additional language (EAL) often make ‘mixed’ linguistic and academic progress during their first years...

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Cambridge University Press

CUP opens access to support learning and research

15 Apr 2020

Cambridge University Press is providing free access to a huge range of books, research and learning materials for teachers, students and researchers...

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Opinion: Why and how to debate climate change

16 Dec 2019

What's the best way to debate a problem as big and complex as climate change? In his new book, Professor Mike Hulme from the Department of Geography...

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Two new Climate Change Master's programmes launched at Cambridge

30 Oct 2019

The University of Cambridge is launching two new climate-focused graduate programmes, exploring the past and potential futures of the interaction...

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