education

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School’s in: how to make the most of home-schooling in lockdown

30 Apr 2020

Five Cambridge education experts share tips, free resources (and moral support) to help you make the most of home-schooling in lockdown.

CUP opens access to support learning and research

15 Apr 2020

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

Professor Gordon Harold, Cambridge’s newly-appointed Professor of the Psychology of Education and Mental Health

Cambridge creates new Professorship in education and mental health

12 Mar 2020

̽��ֱ��new post will strengthen existing research into how better to support young people’s well-being and mental health, in particular through the...

Global coalition needed to transform girls’ education - report

25 Feb 2020

A new report aims to provide a framework so that "governments and those in power can turn goodwill into action”.

Cambridge-designed curriculum teaches schoolchildren about water scarcity and climate activism

17 Jan 2020

Students and teachers across India now have free access to a new curriculum on water security and sustainability, co-developed by researchers at the...

Bereaved children missing out on vital support in UK schools, study finds

18 Jun 2019

Support for bereaved children in schools is patchy and inadequate, and teachers feel they lack the skills to help, according to a report from the...

Research at the chalk face: connecting academia and schools

25 Mar 2019

Researchers in Cambridge’s Faculty of Education are working with teachers to improve the experience of learning in the East of England – and boost...

Report examines origins and nature of ‘maths anxiety’

14 Mar 2019

A report out today examines the factors that influence ‘maths anxiety’ among primary and secondary school students, showing that teachers and parents...

Students in Tanzania. , Credit: Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED)/Daniel Hayduk

Stronger political leadership needed to close global gender divide in education – report

21 Jan 2019

̽��ֱ��poorest girls in many Commonwealth countries spend no more than five years in school, with the global target of 12 years of quality universal...