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Opinion: Why and how to debate climate change

16 Dec 2019

What's the best way to debate a problem as big and complex as climate change? In his new book, Professor Mike Hulme from the Department of Geography...

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Two new Climate Change Master's programmes launched at Cambridge

30 Oct 2019

探花直播 探花直播 of Cambridge is launching two new climate-focused graduate programmes, exploring the past and potential futures of the interaction...

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Women in STEM: Dr Cecilia Brassett

22 Aug 2019

Dr Cecilia Brassett is the 探花直播 Clinical Anatomist and a Fellow of Magdalene College. Here, she tells us about teaching anatomy, which has been...

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New video game teaches teens about electricity

24 Jul 2018

A new video game, designed by researchers at the 探花直播 of Cambridge, gives teenagers an understanding of electricity by solving a series of...

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Dr Martin Ruehl, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages

Teaching celebrated across the 探花直播

22 Jun 2017

Thirteen Cambridge academics have been recognised for their outstanding teaching in the 探花直播's Pilkington Prizes.

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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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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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 探花直播2016 Pilkington Prize Winners with the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz (far right); and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education, Professor Graham Virgo (far left).

Teaching excellence celebrated across the 探花直播

23 Jun 2016

Twelve inspirational academics have been honoured for outstanding teaching in the 探花直播鈥檚 23rd Pilkington Prizes.

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Team members from Cambridge's EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications.

Students invent new technology to improve later life

20 Jun 2016

A team of post-graduate students has published research with the potential to transform the lives of millions of older people around the world.

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Prisoner and guard.

Inside information: Students and prisoners study together in course that reveals the power of collaborative education

26 Apr 2016

A highly innovative project in which Cambridge students and prisoners studied together at a Category B prison in Buckinghamshire has broken down...

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UK鈥檚 top student hackers compete for cyber security

22 Apr 2016

Students from the UK鈥檚 top cyber security universities will compete in Cambridge this weekend, in part to address the country鈥檚 looming cyber...

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India: Teaching Girls

Education that adds up

16 Oct 2015

We 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...

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