Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census
13 May 2021Year 8 students work with Cambridge researchers to help their peers learn about the census.
Teaching pupils to ‘think like Da Vinci’ will help them to take on climate change
23 April 2021Curriculum reforms which mix the arts and sciences will better prepare young people for the real-world challenges that will define their adult lives, researchers argue.
Cultivating ‘multilingual identities’ in schools could help reverse national crisis in language-learning
22 April 2021More young people may choose to study foreign languages to GCSE if they are encouraged to ‘identify’ with languages at school, rather than just learning vocabulary and grammar, new research suggests.
Poor children are being ‘failed by the system’ on road to higher education in lower-income countries
07 April 2021A generation of talented but disadvantaged children are being denied access to higher education because academic success in lower- and middle-income countries is continually ‘protected by wealth’, a study has found.
Global evidence for how EdTech can support pupils with disabilities is ‘thinly spread’, report finds
26 March 2021An 'astonishing'Â deficit of data about how the global boom in educational technology could help pupils with disabilities in low and middle-income countries has been highlighted in a new report.
Video-led feedback programme reduces behaviour problems in children as young as 12 months
16 March 2021A home-based parenting programme to prevent childhood behaviour problems, which very unusually focuses on children when they are still toddlers, has proven highly successful during its first public health trial.
School closures may have wiped out a year of academic progress for pupils in Global South, study warns
09 March 2021As much as a year’s worth of past academic progress made by disadvantaged children in the Global South may have been wiped out by school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have calculated.
‘Left behind’ adolescent women must be prioritised within sustainable development agenda - report
11 February 2021̽»¨Ö±²¥needs of millions of overlooked, ‘left behind’ adolescent women must become a more significant priority within international efforts to end poverty by 2030, a UK Government-commissioned report is urging.
Teaching pupils empathy measurably improves their creative abilities, study finds
03 February 2021Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathise with others measurably improves their creativity, and could potentially lead to several other beneficial learning outcomes, new research suggests.
Disabled teachers face significant workplace discrimination despite drive for more inclusive schools
29 January 2021One of the first academic studies to examine the working lives of disabled teachers in England has called for ‘urgent change’ after finding evidence of significant workplace discrimination and barriers to their career progression.
