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Young children in Ethiopia

COVID has 'ruptured' social skills of the world’s poorest children, study suggests

30 Nov 2022

Two interlinked studies, involving 8,000 primary pupils altogether, indicate children lost at least a third of a year in learning during lockdown.

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School assessments

Assessments of thinking skills may misrepresent poor, inner-city children in the US

12 Oct 2022

Some of the assessment tools that measure children’s thinking skills in the US may have provided inaccurate information about poor, urban students...

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Schoolchildren in Rwanda

Students in Rwanda confound pandemic predictions and head back to school

07 Oct 2022

New data from Rwanda, and some of the first published on how COVID-19 has impacted school attendance in the Global South, suggest that a widely-...

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Teacher speaking with students

'Reductive' models of wellbeing education risk failing children, researchers warn

21 Jun 2022

An improved vision for wellbeing education should replace the over-simplistic approaches currently employed in many schools, such as happiness...

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 Student performing on rigging at the University of Stockholm’s ‘Department of Circus’, which explores different disciplines through circus arts.

“Write fewer papers, take more risks”: researchers call for ‘rebellion’

06 Jun 2022

A group of education specialists are urging researchers to challenge the “structures and regulations” which define academic scholarship, arguing that...

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Girl using headphones in a classroom

Want more students to learn languages? Win over the parents, research suggests

03 May 2022

Parents influence children’s attitudes to languages far more than their teachers or friends, research finds. This implies that efforts to reverse the...

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Young boy completes homework

Trainee teachers made sharper assessments about learning difficulties after receiving feedback from AI

11 Apr 2022

A trial in which trainee teachers who were being taught to identify pupils with potential learning difficulties had their work ‘marked’ by artificial...

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'Romans go home'. Mocked-up Roman graffiti, referencing Monty Python’s Life of Brian, at the Hull and East Riding Museum

Lessons from modern languages can reboot Latin learning

07 Apr 2022

A new guide calls for a broader approach to teaching Latin, one that draws on modern languages education, involving speaking, music and storytelling.

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Children leaving school in Ale, Ethiopia

Poorly conceived payment-on-results funding threatens to undermine education aid

30 Mar 2022

Analysis of a results-based-financing programme for education aid in Ethiopia finds that multiple aspects of the arrangement were unfit for purpose...

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A participant at an NRICH event

NRICH: nurturing next-generation problem solvers

30 Mar 2022

NRICH spent the last two years in emergency rescue mode, helping learners in lockdown. Its online resources attracted over a million page views per...

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Portrait of Sappho

Students taking GCSE Ancient History worry they appear ‘elitist’ to friends and family

04 Mar 2022

The tiny minority of state-educated students who take Ancient History at GCSE worry that the subject’s exclusive reputation will brand them ‘elitist...

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A Raspberry Pi.

The life of Pi: Ten years of Raspberry Pi

25 Feb 2022

The most successful computer ever to come out of the UK celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.

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