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106 episodesThe rise of thinking skills in higher education and the workplace
Both employers and higher education institutions are placing an increasing importance on thinking skills as part of their selection processes. But wha...
Are you testing or are you assessing? Exploring a holistic approach to assessment in schools
This is the final instalment in a series of podcasts from Cambridge Assessment Network focusing on different aspects and forms of assessment. In this...
Helping students manage anxiety in 2021 and beyond
Professor Dave Putwain from Liverpool John Moores University joined Jill Duffy, Chief Executive of our UK exam board, OCR, to discuss the topic of stu...
Admissions tests: Discovering candidates with the most potential
This is the fourth in a series of podcasts from Cambridge Assessment Network focusing on different aspects and forms of assessment. In this episode, M...
How do we support the education sector through professional development?
This is the third episode in a series of podcasts from our colleagues in the Cambridge Assessment Network on the different aspects and forms of assess...
Transforming teaching practice through assessment expertise
In the second episode in this series from our colleagues in the Cambridge Assessment Network, Penelope speaks to Loic from the Centre for Education an...
Assessing apprenticeships
The Cambridge Assessment Network speak to Callum and Leo from the NCFE about the challenges and complexities involved in assessing apprenticeships and...
Introducing the General Certificate of Education
Introducing the GCE - an extract from Chapter 3 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Hele...
The first Cambridge English exams
The first Cambridge English exams - an extract from Chapter 5 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Synd...
Exams during the Second World War
Exams during the Second World War - an extract from Chapter 2 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Synd...
Premise to 1965
Premises to 1965 - an extract from Chapter 1 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Elisabe...
Syndics
Syndics - an extract from from Chapter 1 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, by Elisabeth L...
Examination expansion overseas
Examination expansion overseas - an extract from Chapter 2 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndica...
Examinations and girls' education
Examinations and girls' education - an extract from Chapter 2 of Examining the World: A History of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Synd...
How a teacher training programme is adapting during Covid-19
Anna Richards from the Suffolk & Norfolk School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) joins colleagues from Cambridge Assessment Admissions Testing...
Teaching migration, empire and colonialism in Britain's history lessons
Are UK history lessons inclusive enough so that everyone can see themselves in the story? Do they take into account the many legacies of the British E...
How Covid-19 is shaping the future of education
Michelle Fava, Mark Andrews and Dan Frost reflect on ideas discussed at last year's SHAPE Education conference and consider how Covid-19 has created t...
Proposals to develop a GCSE in natural history
OCR's development of a GCSE in natural history is discussed by Jill Duffy, OCR Chief Executive and Tim Oates, Cambridge Assessment Director of Assessm...
How can we support women and girls in science education?
To celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, as an exam board, we are considering what Cambridge Assessment can do to support and...
Using technology to ensure curriculum coherence
In this podcast based on their Summit of Education afternoon session, Nicky Rushton and Darren Macey of Cambridge Maths discuss how new technologies h...
Technological challenges from our past - Cambridge Assessment archives
As part of the Cambridge Assessment Summit of Education, Group Archivist Gillian Cooke led a breakout session looking back at the technology Cambridge...
Professor Dame Athene Donald - My life in Science
How can we get more girls into STEM subjects? Professor Dame Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge, talks about her life in sc...
Support for refugees and teachers of refugees
Cambridge English have been working to help refugees access education, training and English language courses, as Will Shaw and Chloe Saville explain i...
Volunteering in the Calais refugee camp
Sol, Lee and Peter from the Cambridge Refugee Support Committee talk about volunteering in Calais, France, in the second episode of our refugee educat...
The Cambridge Refugee Support Committee
In the first of a three-part refugee education special, Sol and Sinead explain how the Cambridge Refugee Support Committee started and what they do.
Emotional Resilience in Young People
Professor Colleen McLaughlin shares her long history in the field of emotional development and resilience in young people. She explains why it is impo...
An antidote to 'Teaching to the Test?'
Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR, predicts the impact of Ofsted's (the UK schools watchdog) new proposed inspection framework and whether it will he...
Opening doors for migrants
Dr Sinéad Fitzsimons shared her experiences of projects designed to open doors for migrants to access education and how they dovetail with the work of...
The Press and Assessment - A special exhibition
Gillian Cooke, Group Archivist, Cambridge Assessment talks through a special exhibition currently housed at Cambridge University Press which illustrat...
The year ahead
Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR, talks about what he thinks will be the hot topics in education in 2019, including T Levels, quality of marking, and...
New look for education economics research digest
James Croft and Gabriel Heller Sahlgren from the Centre for Education Economics (CfEE) talk about what the CfEE does, why education economics is impor...
Black Cantabs
This groundbreaking exhibition tells the stories of black students in Cambridge, from the forgotten pioneers of centuries past to the celebrated succe...
Policy Exchange - Powerful Knowledge
We hosted, via Periscope, the online of a Policy Exchange seminar on creating a 'powerful knowledge' curriculum in schools.
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Tim Oates - Assessment without levels
Following the interest generated by Tim Oates' video for the Department of Education earlier in the year, Cambridge Assessment has commissioned a new...
What's it really like to be in the cloud?
Technology in the classroom today. ALISON project, Futurelearn, Cambridge International Examinations and Cambridge Computing Online demonstrate some i...
Lord David Puttnam
Lord David Puttnam CBE FRSA describes how technology enables him to deliver modules to university students across the world from his home in Ireland.<...
Cloud schools - the big debate
Chaired by Pat Glass MP, a panel and audience discussion ‘Technology and education: what’s the future for face-to-face learning?’.
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Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology, University of Newcastle, describes his 'schools in the cloud' experiment.
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Seminar: Vocational qualifications and their interaction with the labour market
Professor Ewart Keep talks about vocational qualifications and the labour market
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Seminar: The Cambridge Assessment Archives - not just an historical treasures
Gillian Cooke and Andrew Watts examine the role of the Corporate Archives from the organisation’s beginnings as the University of Cambridge Local Exam...