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Exploiting the Government's education data could help to bridge the UK skills gap

30 Sep 2015

Analysing graduate earnings using anonymous administrative data can show how earnings vary for graduates and indicate which skills are in short...

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Congratulations, Graduates!

Big data shows the graduate pay premium is bigger for women

25 Sep 2015

Anna Vignoles (Faculty of Education), together with colleagues at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Harvard University, authors a study that finds...

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Linguistics study reveals our growing obsession with education

08 Sep 2015

As children around the country go back to school, a new comparative study of spoken English reveals that we talk about education nearly twice as much...

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Testing Times Ahead

Post-16 education must be reformed to tackle damaging arts-science divide

04 Sep 2015

Why 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...

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365.060 - Watching TV

Use of TV, internet and computer games associated with poorer GCSE grades

04 Sep 2015

Each 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...

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Play’s the thing

04 Aug 2015

Children’s play is under threat from increased urbanisation, perceptions of risk and educational pressures. The first research centre of its kind...

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Big Data

Is big data still big news?

30 Jun 2015

People talk about ‘data being the new oil’, a natural resource that companies need to exploit and refine. But is this really true or are we in the...

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Cambridge gets REAL about overcoming obstacles to global education

18 Jun 2015

The Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre aims to promote education as an engine for sustainable development.

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Mouse

Computer tutor

17 Jun 2015

Millions of English language tests are taken each year by non-native English speakers. Researchers at Cambridge’s ALTA Institute are building ‘...

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Back to school (crop)

New index of children’s ‘school readiness’ highlights importance of family support

28 May 2015

The importance of family support on a child’s ‘school readiness’ is highlighted in a study published this month in the British Journal of Educational...

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Education

Education investment needs to be sustained to halt widening inequality, say Cambridge experts

24 Mar 2015

Sustained investment in education and opportunities for poorer children is essential to reduce inequality in the UK, Cambridge education expert Anna...

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A child's portrait of multiculturalism in the playground

“You need to ignore it, babe”: how mothers prepare young children for the reality of racism

19 Jan 2015

Research among mothers with young children living in multicultural London shows that racism is a reality for children as young as five – and that...

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