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Pride London Parade, July 2011

Let鈥檚 celebrate Pride 鈥 and let our young people be proud, too

07 Jul 2017

At the end of June, the charity Stonewall produced a report along with Cambridge鈥檚 Centre for Family Research into the experiences of lesbian, gay...

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Encouragement from teachers has greatest influence on less advantaged children

28 Mar 2017

鈥楤ig data鈥 study finds that children from families with limited education have strongest long-term response to teacher encouragement, and are more...

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Vumilia walks 10 km to school

鈥淎 girl without education is nothing in the world鈥

02 Feb 2017

Half the children in Africa miss out on school and basic learning as a result of poverty, gender or disability. While major efforts are being made to...

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 探花直播National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

Biosocial science: 探花直播murky history of the nature and nurture debate

23 Jan 2017

探花直播idea that social behaviours are biologically influenced is controversial, but may provide new views on how our environment influences who we are...

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Releasing a better version of me: the power of education in prison to change lives

16 Jan 2017

A pioneering project to teach university students alongside prisoners, so that they learn from each other, has proved remarkably successful. The...

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Hanan Al Hroub

Teaching in conflict zones

18 Dec 2016

At a lecture organised by the 探花直播 of Cambridge's REAL Centre, the winner of the 2016 Global Teacher Prize emphasises the importance of...

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What happens when you donate your body to medical education?

09 Dec 2016

For over 450 years, students have been studying anatomy at Cambridge through whole body dissection. But students find that they learn far more than...

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A  探花直播 of Cambridge outreach session in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire.

Widening participation in higher education in East Anglia

08 Dec 2016

From January 2017, East Anglia鈥檚 five Higher Education Institutions, working in close partnership with the region鈥檚 Further Education Colleges and...

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Teenagers in Oslo, Norway

Positive teacher-student relationships boost good behaviour in teenagers for up to four years

09 Aug 2016

探花直播first study to look at the impact of the relationship with teachers on adolescent behaviour finds that a positive teacher-student relationship...

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Opinion: Can genes really predict how well you鈥檒l do academically?

26 Jul 2016

Daphne Martschenko (Faculty of Education) discusses whether DNA can predict our educational achievement.

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Teaching EAL students

Improving support for pupils with English as an additional language

08 Jul 2016

A new report on UK school pupils who speak English as an additional language (EAL) argues that their progression in English language proficiency...

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Maharaja Sayaji Rao III of Baroda, aged twelve, November 1875

探花直播illiterate boy who became a maharaja

31 May 2016

As they struggled to maintain their grip on India as the jewel in the colonial crown, the British attempted to mould the character of India鈥檚 princes...

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