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Hello! This is the account of the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, a leading centre for educational teaching and research, and the home of the Cambridge PGCE. Find us at www.educ.cam.ac.uk

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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A study of more than 350,000 students in England has found that teachers predict higher A-Level grades for girls than boys who go on to achieve the same exam results. The findings raise fresh questions about the role of predicted grades in university admissions. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Pandemic grade inflation strengthened university prospects for both private school and disadvantaged students. Read more about this story content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/2606... Read the research paper academic.oup.com/oep/advance-...
Students receiving exam results. Peter Muller via Getty Images.
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The government is to provide a full apology to victims of historical forced adoptions in England, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced. Faculty academic Professor Gordon Harold has played a pivotal role in the long journey to reach this point. content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/2606...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Professor Riikka Hofmann and Dr Arun Gupta hosted a visit from the German Ambassador and the Cam-LMU Strategic partnership at the new Cambridge Digital Health and Surgical Training Centre this week to discuss new strategic research partnerships between the UK and Germany.
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Three women from Ghana, who grew up thinking that finishing secondary school might be impossible, are completing their Masters at Cambridge - thanks to @camfed.bsky.social, Mastercard Foundation Scholars' Program, and their own remarkable determination. content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/2606...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Can we really address the crisis in young people's mental health without also thinking about that of their parents? A new book by Cambridge-based child psychotherapist, Alix Hearn, makes the case for a "sea-change" in youth mental healthcare. Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/2606...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In this interview with the team at Cambridge Enterprise, PhD student Duaa Karim discusses the origins of Actsure: the UK’s first automated free-speech compliance system for universities. www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk/helping-univ...
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Helping universities maintain academic freedom
Learn how Actsure provides free speech compliance solutions to universities under the new Freedom of Speech Act for academic freedom.
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Professor Christine O'Farrelly from the University of Cambridge PEDAL Research Centre appeared before the education select committee in Parliament this week to give evidence to its inquiry on "reading for pleasure". Review the full discussion: www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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Education Committee
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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 12/05/2026
What if teaching had a “signature pedagogy”, in the same way medicine and law does? 🧑‍🏫 Professor Clare Brooks (@camedfac.bsky.social) delivered her public seminar on rethinking teacher education through signature pedagogies yesterday Catch up with the recording ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8HK...
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Gates Cambridge @gatescambridge.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Dr Rubaiya Murshed has been named as the winner of the first Dr Arif Naveed Education Prize, honouring the late Gates Cambridge Scholar - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/f... @camedfac.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social
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First winner of Dr Arif Naveed Education Prize announced - Gates Cambridge
Dr Rubaiya Murshed has been named as the winner of the first Dr Arif Naveed Education Prize, honouring the late Gates Cambridge Scholar
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The University and Governing Body of the University of Cambridge Primary School are seeking a dynamic and inspirational Headteacher who can lead the school on the next stage of an exciting chapter in its history. universityprimaryschool.org.uk/working-at-o...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The announcement Office for Students (OfS) will launch its free speech complaints scheme from September 2026 has generated some urgent headlines. Research student Duaa Karim argues that the challenge this poses to universities is primarily structural. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
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New free speech fines: What should universities be doing?
Universities that successfully navigate the new regulatory framework governing free speech announced in the United Kingdom this week will not be those...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Editorial Board of the Cambridge Educational Research e-Journal is now calling for submissions for Volume 13: Education in Changing Times. Deadline for submissions: 22 May 2026 First decision: Within approximately 30 days of submission deadline. Expected publication: November 2026
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Henry Hepburn @henryhepburn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Pupils are being steered away from ‘risky’ creative subjects at school - and girls from lower-income backgrounds face a ‘double disadvantage’, @cam.ac.uk research shows - @jabedahmed.bsky.social reports www.tes.com/magazine/new... @nuffieldfoundation.org @tesmagazine.bsky.social
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Pupils steered away from ‘risky’ creative subjects at school
Girls from lower-income backgrounds face a 'double disadvantage', University of Cambridge research shows
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
A new University of Cambridge report finds that class and gender inequalities in the UK's creative industries are linked to students' experiences at school, where "educational hierarchies" steer them away from subjects like art, music and drama. content.educ.cam.ac.uk/node/8974
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Lower-income pupils are steered away from creative subjects such as art, music and drama, @camedfac.bsky.social research suggests, with particular concerns about the impact on girls
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Pupils steered away from ‘risky’ creative subjects at school
Girls from lower-income backgrounds face a ‘double disadvantage’, University of Cambridge research shows
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
New best practices are being published to help comics festivals become more accessible and inclusive for autistic fans. And of course, they are themselves available as a comic: www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/3b21a6... Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/2603...
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Comic book of best practices aims to make comics festivals more autism-friendly
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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 13/03/2026
AI toys that ‘talk’ to young children are coming, but are they safe? 🤖🧸 A new @camedfac.bsky.social report recommends safety kitemarks for AI toys, as research shows these toys can confuse children and hinder pretend play. Learn more about this new study 👇 bit.ly/4s8CDFp
A child sits with a plush robot toy on their lap, next to an adult who is smiling. The image features a text overlay that reads: "New Cambridge research: Report calls for AI toy safety standards to protect young children".
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
AI-powered toys that “talk” with young children should be more tightly regulated and carry new safety kitemarks, according to a new University of Cambridge report that warns they are not always developed with children’s psychological safety in mind. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/ai-t...
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Report calls for AI toy safety standards to protect young children
The first systematic study of how generative AI toys affect young children finds that they can misread emotions and struggle with developmentally important types of play.
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
On 25 March, the Faculty of Education will be sharing preliminary findings from the first UK study exploring the factors that shape mathematics teacher wellbeing, drawing on insights from teachers themselves. Find out more and book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
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Understanding Mathematics Teacher Wellbeing
An in-person Seminar and workshop event for mathematics teachers, (school) leaders, teacher educators and educational researchers.
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Due to popular demand, we've expanded the capacity for our @cambridgefestival.bsky.social event on 18 March on immigration and education. If you would like to come along and join the discussion, there are a few more free tickets, but please book soon. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/have-we-lo...
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Have we lost the ability to debate immigration?
Have we lost the ability to debate immigration – and what can education do about it?
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
We only have about 25 (free!) tickets left for our @cambridgefestival.bsky.social discussion on 18 March: Have we lost the ability to debate immigration – and what can education do about it? If you would like to join us, please sign up soon at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/have-we-lo...
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Emily J. Goodacre @ejgoodacre.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New article out today! Children communicate differently depending on the play activity and who they're playing with. 💬 🔓 Read the open access article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @elianfink.bsky.social @paulramchandani.bsky.social @drjennyg.bsky.social
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"Play nicely, children." This new @pedalcam.bsky.social study led by Emily Goodacre found that getting children to cooperate during play may depend less on their social skills than on what they are doing - especially if they are not already friends. content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/2602...
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Play nicely: Children who are not friends connect more through play when given a shared goal
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A new book calls for a rethink of what “counts” as comics, arguing that Western ideas about the medium have obscured the power of visual storytelling in the Global South. If you're interested in comics, you can access it for free via the links in our summary: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/2602...
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From ancient myths to ‘Indo-manga’: artists in the Global South are reframing the comic
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This seminar on 3 March will explore the doctoral journeys of Global Southern Scholars at Cambridge across disciplines, national contexts and stages of the degree. Open to all members of the University. Register here: tinyurl.com/voicesfromgs
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Fluidly blending languages, sometimes called "translanguaging", is gaining growing attention in linguistics. Here, Razan El Helou and Wulandari Santoso, explore its use in English language education in Indonesia, a linguistically superdiverse society. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Translanguaging and English Language Education | 41 | The Routledge In
Translanguaging has gained increasing attention within applied linguistics, including in the context of English language education. While its meanings and
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Have we lost the ability to debate immigration - and what can education do about it? Join us for this free @cambridgefestival.bsky.social event on 18 March and have your say as we explore how education might support more constructive public dialogue. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/have-we-lo...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A University of Cambridge spin-out has developed what it says is the UK’s first automated free-speech compliance system for universities, amid concerns that institutions are struggling to interpret new freedom of speech rules. content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/camb...
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Cambridge-developed tool launched to steer universities through maze of free-speech checks
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Academic pressure in East Asia places students at risk for diminished well-being. A new study, co-authored by Boseok Kim and Jongho Shin investigated whether character strength interventions for elementary students could help. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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School Adjustment Moderates Character Strengths Interventions in Korean Elementary Schools - International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology
Academic pressure in East Asia places students at heightened risk for diminished well-being, pointing to the need for interventions that sustain psychological functioning. This study investigated whet...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Presencing Echoes in the Archive: Material Voices Through Space and Time - this new paper is by PhD researchers Linh S. Nguyễn and Elena Russo, and available open access in the journal "Arts". www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/15...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The number of students studying for British degrees overseas has risen sharply over the past decade. This new study suggests the expansion is exporting not just British degrees, but the hierarchies of Britain’s highly stratified higher education system. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Exporting status differences? The stratification of British transnational higher education
Literature on transnational education (TNE) has grown rapidly, yet the power relations underpinning this form of internationalisation, as well as the increasing diversification of TNE provision, re...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Professor Clare Brooks has been appointed the next Head of the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. She will succeed the current Head, Professor Hilary Cremin, in October 2026. content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/prof...
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Professor Clare Brooks appointed Head of Faculty from October 2026
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A new report calls for an urgent increase in international aid for education in Palestine, to address both learning losses and the severe psychological impacts of the war in Gaza. Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/afte... Join us for the launch event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/report-lau...
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After more than two years of war, Palestinian children are hungry, denied education and “like the living dead”
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A collection of award-winning films, developed for the "Only Human" project through the Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public, is widening public conversation about genetic science. Strikingly, science itself barely gets a mention. Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/awar...
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The award-winning films starting new conversations about genetic science – by barely mentioning it.
An emerging collection of award-winning short films, commissioned by Cambridge researchers, is being released as part of a project to widen conversations about genetic science, particularly among audi...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
What happens when you teach sixth formers to teach? Charle Pettit, an affiliated lecturer on the Cambridge PGCE, decided to find out with students at his school, and early results suggest that a remarkable form of self-sustaining learning emerged. content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/self...
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Self-sustaining learning: What happened when Huntingdon sixth formers took a mini-PGCE?
An experimental project at a Cambridgeshire schools trust in which sixth formers stepped into the shoes of teachers has found that the approach can generate valuable forms of learning that complement ...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
A new version of the first ever major exhibition exploring how Black people have been represented in UK children’s literature visits Cambridge’s Central Library this week, having been brought to the city by Cambridge researchers. Find out more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/exhi...
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Exhibition traces 200 years of Black representation in children’s literature
A new version of the first ever major exhibition exploring how Black people have been represented in UK children’s literature visits Cambridge’s Central Library from 15 December.
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PEDAL Research Centre @pedalcam.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Our paper on the use of AI in child development checks is available now on the Early Childhood Education Journal: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @drjennyg.bsky.social
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Michelle Ellefson @michellefson.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
So excited this paper is out. What started as a brainstormed idea after an invited talk has turned into a whole line of research in my lab. Look out for more papers in the future!
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PEDAL Research Centre @pedalcam.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Mark your calendars: The #PEDALConference2026 is coming on Thursday 11th June 2026, #InternationalDayOfPlay 🧸 More details to follow...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Religious Education syllabus in Northern Ireland mandates compulsory teaching of exclusively Christian content, but there is strong support for change. New research from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and @cam.ac.uk content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/majo...
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Majority want wider worldviews taught in Northern Ireland’s primary school RE curriculum
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"We’ve had a discourse for decades about meritocracy, but it’s a fig leaf to hide the ways our economies are not achieving social mobility." Hilary Cremin spoke to the Future Learning Design Podcast about why we need to "rewild" education and how to do it. www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast/prof...
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Rewilding Education - A Conversation with Prof. Hilary Cremin — Good Impact Labs
The idea of rewilding is now a common topic of conversation in response to the depletion of biodiversity and natural habitats for local wildlife and widespread industrialisation and globalisation of f...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We've added capacity for this event due to demand but tickets are going! If you would like to join this discussion with Hilary Cremin and Luke Kemp about how to educate for existential threats, please sign up now. Nov 26, 5pm - 6.30pm at the Faculty of Education; tickets are free.
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Could the spread of Generative AI lead to new, talk-based approaches to teaching and learning? A new conceptual paper by ‪@rupertwegerif.bsky.social‬ and Imogen Casebourne suggests it might. content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/we-s...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Should you be getting your child an AI toy for Christmas? Cambridge expert @ejgoodacre.bsky.social discusses how her research with @drjennyg.bsky.social is exploring what we know - and don't know - about the new wave of toys hitting the market. uk.style.yahoo.com/ai-toys-are-...
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AI toys are the future of play. I'm a researcher trying to figure out if that's a good thing for kids.
Researcher Emily Goodacre is exploring how AI-powered toys impact kids. Here's what she wants parents to consider.
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Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 13/11/2025
They submitted oral & written evidence calling for more research on mental health in the workspace, a more consistent measurement of productivity, & stronger empirical evidence to better know the impact of home-based working.
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Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk · 13/11/2025
Today, the @houseoflords.parliament.uk Home-based Working Committee released a report which repeatedly references research by an interdisciplinary team at @cam.ac.uk highlighting the need for better data on productivity & mental health in the workplace to inform policy on home-based working.
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
To mark its 10th anniversary, this newly-published article highlights three projects led by the University of Cambridge PEDAL Centre which show how centring children in play research can generate new insights that would otherwise remain hidden. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Innovative methods to centre children in research: celebrating 10 years of play with the PEDAL Research Centre
Centring children in play research is fundamental for both children and researchers. It also offers the opportunity to gain important insights that would otherwise remain hidden from view for other...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Three years after ChatGPT burst on to the scene, @rupertwegerif.bsky.social spoke to ABC's future tense about its potential impact on education. Listen again here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Learning how to learn in the age of generative AI - ABC listen
It's exactly three years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene. In that short period of time the process of academic assessment has been in upheaval. Across the world educators are trying to address how ...
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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge @camedfac.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Making RE part of the national curriculum will promote tolerance – but only if it’s taught in the right way. Daniel Moulin discusses new recommendations for Religious Education in the curriculum in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/making-re-pa...
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Making RE part of the national curriculum will promote tolerance – but only if it’s taught in the right way
Until now religious education teaching has been compulsory but patchy in quality.
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