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 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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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

Building spaces for collaborative resistance

As a research field, disability studies claims to transform understandings fundamental to many other disciplines; in conversation with Philippa Mullins , Miro Griffiths explores how that translates into transformed…

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LSE British Politics and Policy·policy

Policymaking doesn’t work the way Westminster thinks

There is a prevailing story in Westminster about how policymaking works. According to this story, power resides in central Government from which policy ideas flow and implementation take place. Paul Cairney argues that…

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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

Becoming part of the dataset

How do we strike a balance between teaching students to use research methods rigorously, while also stimulating them to think critically about the assumptions built into these techniques? Fiona Gogescu interviewed…

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University of Cambridge News·higher-ed

Racism and socioeconomic stress may alter pregnancy biology, leaving black women nearly three times more likely to die

These altered physiological processes may lead to higher rates of preeclampsia in black women, and higher rates of preterm birth and fetal growth restriction in black babies, compared to white women and their babies. In…

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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

Teaching to a different beat

Mashing up music, style, poetry, make up, material culture, and philosophy, historian Lucy Robinson uses punk and rave to disrupt the predominant dynamic in the classroom and refashion it as an alternative intellectual…

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LSE British Politics and Policy·policy

Why is London having fewer children?

Fertility rates are dropping nationwide, but London has seen the biggest drop over in the last decade. Katie Beck looks into the many factors that put people off having children in London, the impact this has on London…

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Teacher of Science

Education news for this role

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

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

Building spaces for collaborative resistance

Policymaking doesn’t work the way Westminster thinks

Becoming part of the dataset

Racism and socioeconomic stress may alter pregnancy biology, leaving black women nearly three times more likely to die

Teaching to a different beat

Why is London having fewer children?

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