Changing Course on Climate
09 Feb 2024The global publishing and assessment arm of the University of Cambridge is calling on teachers in 160 countries to help improve climate change education for nearly a million 3-19 year-olds.
Opinion: ‘Difficult’ Latin risks remaining a qualification for elite pupils
02 Nov 2015Francesca Middleton (Faculty of Classics) discusses the reform of GCSEs and Latin's reputation as an academically demanding subject.
Post-16 education must be reformed to tackle damaging arts-science divide
04 Sep 2015Why is it acceptable to say “I never could do maths” but not “I’ve never read any Shakespeare”? It’s symptomatic of the art-science divide that can only be addressed by reforming our education system, writes Professor Athene Donald from the Department of Physics and Master of Churchill College.
Use of TV, internet and computer games associated with poorer GCSE grades
04 Sep 2015Each extra hour per day spent watching TV, using the internet or playing computer games during Year 10 is associated with poorer grades at GCSE at age 16, according to research from the University of Cambridge.
Every hour you spend in front of a screen is linked to poorer exam results
04 Sep 2015We need to think about how our teenagers spend their spare time, writes Dr Kirsten Corder from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, whose research has shown that even an hour a day of TV and internet use is linked to poorer GCSE grades.
