Blogs

In this blog, on the third day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus on learners and their future needs for work. Questions and discussions centred on where we work, how we work, and how this will have to change for the future.

In this blog, on the second day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus specifically on what education will look like in 20 years’ time.

This is the fourth in a series of blogs sharing stories about our assessment practitioner community. Educational specialist Gemma Escott talks to Cambridge Assessment Network about how becoming an assessment specialist 'just kind of happened', having to piecemeal together her early professional development and how A101: Introducing the Principles of Assessment allowed her to reflect on her practice amongst other professionals.

In this blog, we focus on the first day of the five-day event which aimed to unpack social issues facing the future of education, demonstrate the complexity of the issues in global and local contexts, and identify ways that we might respond to the emerging challenges.

Rosalia Valero, Strategic Development Head at Cambridge Assessment English in Mexico, began her career in teaching and training and now works with ministries and educational institutions to transform education in the Americas region. She spoke to us about her career path and why developing a greater understanding of assessment has helped her to ‘fall in love again’ with what she sells.

The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed many schools to use and rely on digital technology in order to continue teaching and learning. In this blog, we examine and address concerns that the move to remote education has highlighted digital inequality within UK education.

Over the last 12 months existing digital platforms used to deliver English learning and assessment have been fully road tested, but what does this mean for the teacher of the future? To answer this question we look at the types of technology that are making an impact in language education.

Hear from Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press' first joint staff network, The Young Employees Network, to find out more about the network and how we are supporting young employees. 

George Vlachonikolis has taught Economics for A Level and IB for 10 years. Currently he is studying on the Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Educational Studies: Educational Assessment (PGCA) and in this blog he details how the PGCA has built his confidence and expertise as an assessment practitioner and reflects on the things that have shaped his assessment identity.

In our latest future of education blog we explore how theory and evidence in relation to cognitive science has the potential to benefit learning and teacher practices.

As part of our SHAPE Education initiative, we’re hosting monthly debates with educational experts on the future of education. This month we discussed why we need to reimagine the way that skills development happens in our current education system, and explored the model of peer-to-peer learning.

Brooke Wyatt, Senior Manager of Assessment Training is the newest member of the Assessment Network team. Here she tells us about her experience working in assessment, what she loves about her work, and how as student, teacher and assessment manager, her perspective of assessment has many different angles.

In this week's principles for the future of education blog Tim Oates CBE examines education reform in terms of how, when and what. 

In this blog, Dr Simon Child, Head of Assessment Training at Cambridge Assessment Network and Course Co-Director for the Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Educational Studies: Educational Assessment (PGCA) discusses how knowledge, authority and confidence in assessment practice can equip practitioners for the future.

Following the All Party Parliamentary Group for Oracy’s 'Speak for Change' report, Tim Oates examines the synthesis of the evidence on oracy as a vital part of high-quality schooling.

Chair of Cambridge Assessment’s LGBTQIA+ staff network, David Wikramaratna, shares how we’re marking Pride this month and highlights some of the ways the network is helping to make the workplace a more inclusive and safer place to be for all our colleagues.

Last month a Cambridge Assessment Network seminar heard from inspirational naturist and campaigner Mary Colwell about the reasoning behind the her campaign for a Natural History GCSE and the journey towards the recent proposal to the Department for Education.

In this blog explore what is meant by curriculum coherence, and examine possible connections between curriculum coherence and learner attainment.

As part of our SHAPE Education initiative, we’re hosting monthly debates with educational experts on the future of education. This month we asked 'What can we remove from education?' and discussed how we can learn from the way the educational landscape has changed in the last year in relation to the attainment and wellbeing of learners.

A group called Rethinking Assessment has called for GCSEs to be scrapped. But why, and do their arguments hold any merit? Barnaby Lenon examines the case for an overhaul of our exam system.