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Students from Wimbledon High School at the British Paediatric Respiratory Society conference, Credit: Lloyd Mann

Student-led designs could help prevent childhood asthma deaths

10 Jul 2017

Solutions designed by secondary school students as part of an innovative classroom design and technology programme could help reduce the number of...

Let’s celebrate Pride – and let our young people be proud, too

07 Jul 2017

At the end of June, the charity Stonewall produced a report along with Cambridge’s Centre for Family Research into the experiences of lesbian, gay...

West Somerset Community College at the Institute of Physics, Credit: Institute of Physics

Encouragement from teachers has greatest influence on less advantaged children

28 Mar 2017

‘Big data’ study finds that children from families with limited education have strongest long-term response to teacher encouragement, and are more...

“A girl without education is nothing in the world”

02 Feb 2017

Half the children in Africa miss out on school and basic learning as a result of poverty, gender or disability. While major efforts are being made to...

The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.

Biosocial science: The murky history of the nature and nurture debate

23 Jan 2017

The idea that social behaviours are biologically influenced is controversial, but may provide new views on how our environment influences who we are...

Releasing a better version of me: the power of education in prison to change lives

16 Jan 2017

A pioneering project to teach university students alongside prisoners, so that they learn from each other, has proved remarkably successful. The...

Teaching in conflict zones

18 Dec 2016

At a lecture organised by the University of Cambridge's REAL Centre, the winner of the 2016 Global Teacher Prize emphasises the importance of...

What happens when you donate your body to medical education?

09 Dec 2016

For over 450 years, students have been studying anatomy at Cambridge through whole body dissection. But students find that they learn far more than...