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Open meeting for administrative staff
New and innovative plans to enhance Cambridge’s already outstanding teaching and learning were laid out at last week’s open meeting for administrative staff.Speaking just before Friday’s historic...
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Harnessing digital technology to support teaching and learning
The ‘Lecture Capture’ pilot, which launches as part of a new Digital Education Strategy, will see staff from five departments using a variety of recording methods – including audio, video, and...
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Funding for innovative teaching and learning projects
The grants aim to promote innovative practice in teaching and learning techniques by providing start-up funding for creative or exploratory projects ineligible for other sources of funding. Bids should...
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Funding for innovative teaching and learning projects
The award offers grants of up to £20,000 for University staff to fund creative projects. It aims to promote innovative practice in teaching and learning techniques by providing start-up funding for...
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Eye contact with your baby helps synchronise your brainwaves
When a parent and infant interact, various aspects of their behaviour can synchronise, including their gaze, emotions and heartrate, but little is known about whether their brain activity also...
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Young children use physics, not previous rewards, to learn about tools
The findings of the study, based on the Aesop’s fable The Crow and the Pitcher, help solve a debate about whether children learning to use tools are genuinely learning about physical causation or are...
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Extra classroom time may do little to help pupils recover lost learning after...
The University of Cambridge analysis used five years of Government data, collected from more than 2,800 schools in England, to estimate the likely impact of additional classroom instruction on academic...
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"It’s almost as if they don’t exist”: Education policy fails to account for...
The research, which is published in a book launched on Tuesday 9 November, found that the key piece of statutory guidance underpinning education for PMLD learners – the Special Needs and Disabilities...
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Students who self-identify as multilingual perform better at GCSE
The study, of just over 800 pupils in England, found a positive relationship between GCSE scores and ‘multilingual identity’: a reference to whether pupils felt a personal connection with other...
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'Reductive' models of wellbeing education risk failing children, researchers...
In a new compendium of academic analysis, researchers argue that despite decades of investment in ‘positive education’ – such as programmes to teach children happiness and mindfulness– schools still...
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