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A strange kind of intimacy: executive education in a pandemic and beyond

18 May 2021

You don't have to get a place at Cambridge to study here. ̽»¨Ö±²¥ ̽»¨Ö±²¥ also provides executive education and lifelong learning to lots of different...

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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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Cultivating ‘multilingual identities’ in schools could help reverse national crisis in language-learning

22 Apr 2021

More young people may choose to study foreign languages to GCSE if they are encouraged to ‘identify’ with languages at school, rather than just...

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Student graduating in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Poor children are being ‘failed by the system’ on road to higher education in lower-income countries

07 Apr 2021

A generation of talented but disadvantaged children are being denied access to higher education because academic success in lower- and middle-income...

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Global evidence for how EdTech can support pupils with disabilities is ‘thinly spread’, report finds

26 Mar 2021

An 'astonishing' deficit of data about how the global boom in educational technology could help pupils with disabilities in low and middle-income...

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Mum and toddler

Video-led feedback programme reduces behaviour problems in children as young as 12 months

16 Mar 2021

A home-based parenting programme to prevent childhood behaviour problems, which very unusually focuses on children when they are still toddlers, has...

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School in Kampala, Uganda

School closures may have wiped out a year of academic progress for pupils in Global South, study warns

09 Mar 2021

As 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...

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‘Left behind’ adolescent women must be prioritised within sustainable development agenda - report

11 Feb 2021

̽»¨Ö±²¥needs of millions of overlooked, ‘left behind’ adolescent women must become a more significant priority within international efforts to end...

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Child-friendly asthma treatment kits designed by pupils who took part in the study

Teaching pupils empathy measurably improves their creative abilities, study finds

03 Feb 2021

Teaching children in a way that encourages them to empathise with others measurably improves their creativity, and could potentially lead to several...

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Disabled teachers face significant workplace discrimination despite drive for more inclusive schools

29 Jan 2021

One of the first academic studies to examine the working lives of disabled teachers in England has called for ‘urgent change’ after finding evidence...

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Motherboard

First Master’s programme on managing the risks of AI launched by Cambridge

07 Dec 2020

̽»¨Ö±²¥UK’s first Master’s degree in the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) is being launched by the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.

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