Winners announced in the inaugural Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Impact Awards and Public Engagement with Research Awards
21 June 2016Researchers from across the 探花直播 have been recognised for the impact of their work on society, and engagement with research in the inaugural Vice-Chancellor鈥檚 Impact Awards and Public Engagement with Research Awards.
Opinion: Genetics: what it is that makes you clever 鈥 and why it鈥檚 shrouded in controversy
21 April 2016Daphne Martschenko (Faculty of Education) discusses the concept of intelligence and the drive to identify and quantify it.
Graduate earnings: what you study and where matters 鈥 but so does parents鈥 income
13 April 2016First 鈥榖ig data鈥 research approach to graduate earnings reveals significant variations depending on student background, degree subject and university attended.聽聽
Thirty years of maths support for local schools
07 April 2016探花直播 探花直播鈥檚 STIMULUS project has helped thousands of student volunteers to become teaching assistants in local schools.
Education and the brain: what happens when children learn?
10 February 2016Have you lost your house keys recently? If so, you probably applied a spot of logical thinking. You looked first in the most obvious places 鈥 bags and pockets 鈥 and then mentally retraced your steps to the point when you last used them.
Play matters! New centre will examine role of playfulness in learning
22 October 2015探花直播 of Cambridge and the LEGO Foundation launch new research centre and professorship.
Education that adds up
16 October 2015We are in the midst of a 鈥済lobal learning crisis鈥 according to UNESCO, with too many children worldwide learning little or nothing at school. A new research programme focusing on India and Pakistan aims to understand what needs to be done to ensure that education adds up.
Exploiting the Government's education data could help to bridge the UK skills gap
30 September 2015Analysing graduate earnings聽using anonymous administrative data can show how earnings vary for聽graduates聽and indicate which skills are in short supply, says Cambridge education professor Anna Vignoles.
Bunnies in children鈥檚 books: from Alice in Wonderland to Peter Rabbit
30 September 2015罢丑别听Cambridge Animal Alphabet series聽celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, R is for Rabbit, as we talk to Dr Zoe Jaques聽about the bunny's crucial place in the history of children's fiction.