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Your languages, your future
In England, 14% of secondary school pupils – that’s about 400,000 – speak a language other than English as their first language. In English primary schools, one in six children don’t have English as a...
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Lifelong learning and the plastic brain
When a group of experimental psychologists moved into their new lab space in Cambridge earlier this year, they took a somewhat unconventional approach to refurbishing their tea room: they had the walls...
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The evolution of Darwin’s Origin: Cambridge releases 12,000 papers online
In total, Cambridge Digital Library (http://bit.ly/1y7q4e1) is releasing more than 12,000 hi-res images, alongside transcriptions and detailed notes as a result of an international collaboration with...
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Student–led teachers’ awards recognise staff
Student union thanks staff for supporting students and enhancing the educational experienceStaff from across the University have been recognised for their work by the students they support and...
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Computer tutor
“We arrived to our destination and we looked each other.”To a native English speaker, the mistakes in this sentence are clear. But someone learning English would need a teacher to point them out,...
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University teaching awards honour excellence
Thirteen inspirational academics have been honoured for the outstanding quality and approach to their teaching.The 22nd annual Pilkington Prizes, which honour excellence in teaching across the...
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Education that adds up
It’s a numbers game. Three million households, seven million children, 30,000 volunteers, and a decade of assessing the basic reading and maths abilities of 3–16-year olds across India.This is the size...
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Funding for innovative teaching and learning projects
The grants aim to promote innovative practice in teaching and learning techniques by providing start-up funding for creative or exploratory projects ineligible for other sources of funding. Bids should...
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Digital learning will be a focus for the University
The Learning and Teaching Strategy builds on the work that is already being done to ensure high quality teaching and learning throughout the University and introduces new areas of focus, including the...
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Funding for innovative teaching and learning projects
The award offers grants of up to £20,000 for University staff to fund creative projects. It aims to promote innovative practice in teaching and learning techniques by providing start-up funding for...
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Teaching staff to be recognised at annual awards
Twelve inspirational academics have been recognised for their outstanding quality and approach to teaching. The winners, listed below, will attend an awards ceremony at Queens’ College in June, where...
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Educational excellence under the spotlight
Geneticists and historians, lecturers and librarians, staff from departments and tutors from Colleges all rubbed shoulders yesterday at the University’s inaugural Teaching Forum.The forum – a new...
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Pioneering teaching methods trialled across the University
Nine new projects are benefiting from the Teaching and Learning Innovation Fund.They were selected following a call for bids at the end of last year by the Digital Teaching and Learning Sub-committee,...
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UK’s top student hackers compete for cyber security
The best student hackers in the UK will take place in a cyber security competition this weekend, in order to demonstrate and improve their skills both as attackers and defenders in scenarios similar to...
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Inside information: Students and prisoners study together in course that...
The wealth of untapped academic talent inside the criminal justice system has been illuminated by a ground-breaking project in which people in prison studied in equal partnership with Cambridge...
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Students invent new technology to improve later life
As part of their Master of Research programme at the University’s EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sensor Technologies and Applications last year, the ten students were given 12 weeks to develop...
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Teaching excellence celebrated across the University
They include a Philosopher praised for building intellectual confidence among her students, a Consultant Radiologist who bridges the gap between the classroom and the ward, a Neuroscientist famed for...
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Open meeting for administrative staff
New and innovative plans to enhance Cambridge’s already outstanding teaching and learning were laid out at last week’s open meeting for administrative staff.Speaking just before Friday’s historic...
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Harnessing digital technology to support teaching and learning
The ‘Lecture Capture’ pilot, which launches as part of a new Digital Education Strategy, will see staff from five departments using a variety of recording methods – including audio, video, and...
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Funding for innovative teaching and learning projects
The grants aim to promote innovative practice in teaching and learning techniques by providing start-up funding for creative or exploratory projects ineligible for other sources of funding. Bids should...
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