With plans to lower the voting age to 16, Children’s Commissioner’s polling shows widespread disengagement, low confidence and uncertainty about political participation among young people Commissioner’s new data on…

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The PIE News·higher-ed

Who’s in the room? Inside the new Education Sector Action Group

At The PIE Live Europe 2026 in March, Sir Steve Smith revealed the Home Office and Cabinet Office will be members of ESAG, the ministerially led committee that will formulate action plans to deliver the UK’s…

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Teaching Times

How To Build A Science Garden

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LSE Education Blog·research

From microscopes to AI? New tools spark scientific discovery

Scientific discoveries and the innovations that stem from them are pursued by governments and science policies seeking to ultimately drive human wellbeing. Drawing on the study of science’s major discoveries, ……

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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

Behind the scenes with affect theatre

Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti have finessed performance ethnography as a collaborative pedagogy situated at the intersection of the social sciences and performance studies. In this interview, Meghan Rose Donnelly…

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University of Cambridge News·higher-ed

Doctors favour explaining anxiety to patients as a human evolution ‘success story’

Mental health clinicians are over five times more likely to see evolutionary explanations of anxiety as helpful for their patients, rather than the genetic approaches currently taught to trainee doctors and…

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LSE British Politics and Policy·policy

Local elections signal the end of the Starmer government

No government does well in “mid-term” local elections. But unless polling has been dramatically wrong, the 2026 local elections will be brutal for Labour. Eunice Goes makes the case for why this signals the beginning of…

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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

Anti-caste pedagogy as a personal and political statement

Amrita DasGupta speaks with Srilata Sircar to understand how we need to be politically inclined to create and adopt an anti-caste curriculum and pedagogy; anything less is not enough. This interview appears in a special…

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LSE British Politics and Policy·higher-ed

Why the Senedd election matters beyond Wales

Wales is about to hold its first Senedd election under a new closed proportional list voting system. At the same time, Labour could lose its long-standing hold in Wales. Lowri Wilkie , Zoe Fisher , Amy Isham and Andrew…

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LSE Business Review·policy

Gender bias in venture capital means identical business cases are evaluated and funded differently

Venture capital funding should be allocated to the “best” business cases. But Ana Barjasic and Dario Krpan show how evaluators’ bias means that companies run by women are overlooked and underfunded compared with those…

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University of Cambridge News·higher-ed

Deaf opera singer welcomes new Cambridge-led cochlear implant trial

The UK trial will provide bilateral cochlear implants (cochlear implants on both sides) to some profoundly deaf adults. The results will be used to review NHS guidance for the provision of implants to adults. Each year…

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HEPI Blog·higher-ed

Are skills the opposite of education?

This blog was kindly authored by Professor Dame Athene Donald, Professor Emerita, University of Cambridge. A recent HEPI blog by Josh Patel argued that ‘Skills discourses generally prioritise narrowly defined and…

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Teaching Times

Beyond Science Lessons: Let’s Do More Drama!

The post Beyond Science Lessons: Let’s Do More Drama! appeared first on TeachingTimes .

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LSE British Politics and Policy·policy

Scotland’s election – constitutional reset or fiscal reckoning?

With the Scottish Parliament election imminent, attention has turned once again to the constitutional question. Will this campaign reopen the independence debate? Or will it be dominated by more immediate questions over…

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Schools Week UK·curriculum

Exam aids for maths and science GCSE exams to continue

More than 90 per cent supported plans to keep providing formulae and equations sheets for the exams The post Exam aids for maths and science GCSE exams to continue first appeared on Schools Week .

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Ofqual·curriculum

Proposed changes to the assessment of mathematics, physics and combined science GCSEs

Ofqual has consulted on proposals to continue providing formulae and revised equations sheets as support materials in relevant GCSE exams.

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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

Combating naïve scepticism in the classroom

In a post-truth world, Luke Davies sits down with Jake Wright to understand how he incorporates tolerance, critical thinking, (and bullshit) in his first-year philosophy course, while considering how it applies to other…

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HEPI Blog·higher-ed

Universities need to learn how to truly listen to industry

Over the weekend HEPI published a blog on Scotland’s higher education funding framework and a blog on universities’ financial security This blog was kindly authored by Phil Taylor, Vice-Chancellor and President at the…

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LSE British Politics and Policy·policy

What the Mandelson vetting crisis tells us about the civil service

Questioning who is personally responsible has been the focus of much of the discussion around the Mandelson vetting crisis. Joe Martin argues that instead the focus should be on how this reveals failures of the civil…

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LSE British Politics and Policy·policy

Political narratives and British voters

Using new survey data, Laurence Vardaxoglou identifies two new groups of British voters, beyond left and right, according to their preferred political narratives. Winning the voters of each group will require different…

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Teacher of Computer Science

Education news for this role

Press Notice: Morning after local elections, Children’s Commissioner’s new polling shows teenagers uncertain about voting in the next general election and worried about the future, as she launched major national survey

Who’s in the room? Inside the new Education Sector Action Group

How To Build A Science Garden

From microscopes to AI? New tools spark scientific discovery

Behind the scenes with affect theatre

Doctors favour explaining anxiety to patients as a human evolution ‘success story’

Local elections signal the end of the Starmer government

Anti-caste pedagogy as a personal and political statement

Why the Senedd election matters beyond Wales

Gender bias in venture capital means identical business cases are evaluated and funded differently

Deaf opera singer welcomes new Cambridge-led cochlear implant trial

Are skills the opposite of education?

Beyond Science Lessons: Let’s Do More Drama!

Scotland’s election – constitutional reset or fiscal reckoning?

Exam aids for maths and science GCSE exams to continue

Proposed changes to the assessment of mathematics, physics and combined science GCSEs

Combating naïve scepticism in the classroom

Universities need to learn how to truly listen to industry

What the Mandelson vetting crisis tells us about the civil service

Political narratives and British voters

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