education

Students ripped up their university exam papers in protest against established authority and in rejection of formal qualifications; a progressive...

To mark Roald Dahl Day on September 13th and the 50th anniversary of James And The Giant Peach, Professor Maria Nikolajeva explains why he remains...

A new Centre for Children’s Literature is providing a focus for research on how children are shaped by early encounters with books and film.

For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is...

Watch how a group of teenagers taking part in a Cambridge University archaeological dig unexpectedly unearthed the mysterious remains of a woman who...

A Cambridge undergraduate has come first in a competition in which students face the daunting task of giving a full public lecture in Japanese.

Egypt’s highest-ranking Muslim official, the Grand Mufti Dr Ali Goma, will be speaking at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge this...

The University of Cambridge comes second in the Times Higher Education Supplement’s 2006 ranking of world universities.