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Photo-voice image from the AskAIDS project

Breaking sex education taboos in Africa to tackle AIDS

19 Jun 2012

New research focusing on educating young people about sex and HIV/AIDS in Africa is using innovative techniques – such as ‘photo-voice’ and role-play...

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Festival of Ideas: Musical mayhem

Music of kindness: playing together strengthens empathy in children

13 Jun 2012

A year-long study on childrens' music-making indicates that playing music in groups on a regular basis greatly improves a child’s ability to...

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Alexander Crummell 1866

̽»¨Ö±²¥remarkable story of Alexander Crummell

20 Oct 2011

A talk at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge’s Festival of Ideas this evening will focus on the extraordinary life of Alexander Crummell – the son of a...

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Dr Fowler believes that contemporary student protests, such as the one in London last year, are a pale imitation of their 1960s counterparts

̽»¨Ö±²¥Creative Campus

13 Oct 2011

Students ripped up their university exam papers in protest against established authority and in rejection of formal qualifications; a progressive...

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Maria Nikolajeva.

Fantastic Mr. Dahl

07 Sep 2011

To mark Roald Dahl Day on September 13th and the 50th anniversary of James And ̽»¨Ö±²¥Giant Peach, Professor Maria Nikolajeva explains why he remains...

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Ivory tower

Exploding the ivory tower myth

17 May 2011

Academia makes a considerable and valued contribution to society that goes far beyond commercialisation of applied research, as Professor Alan Hughes...

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Children's Literature

Children's literature comes of age

01 May 2010

A new Centre for Children’s Literature is providing a focus for research on how children are shaped by early encounters with books and film.

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dyslexia

̽»¨Ö±²¥educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia

01 Jan 2010

For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is...

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Cubbyholed

Improving cognitive ability through education and health may cut dementia risk

27 Mar 2009

Improvements in education and health could reduce the number of elderly people who suffer from dementia, according to the first study in England to...

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Young archaeologists dig up a mystery

04 Jul 2007

Watch how a group of teenagers taking part in a Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ archaeological dig unexpectedly unearthed the mysterious remains of a woman who...

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Cambridge student takes first prize in Japanese speaking contest

16 Feb 2007

A Cambridge undergraduate has come first in a competition in which students face the daunting task of giving a full public lecture in Japanese.

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Fitzwilliam toasts success of Japanese year abroad scheme

09 Jan 2007

̽»¨Ö±²¥graduates of a programme which allows alumni from Fitzwilliam College to spend a year studying in Japan will reunite at Westminster today to...

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