Blogs

Dr Simon Child, co-director of the Postgraduate Advanced Certificate in Educational Studies: Educational Assessment (PGCA), gives his thoughts on how the course prepares students for the future of assessment.

Advice for parents, guardians and teachers on how we can support children and young adults with mental health and being out school during the coronavirus crisis.

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day, our Group Archivist delved into the Cambridge Assessment archives to find out how our exams have been impacted in history, including during and after the Second World War.

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, colleagues at Cambridge Assessment have been taking part in a variety of initiatives to support their local communities.

Ewan Brady shares his motivation for applying for the PGCA, providing insight into how the course is structured and how what he learned can be applied to his role as Subject Advisor at OCR.

Video games have become a mainstream phenomenon. Despite this, many people don’t realise how beneficial video games can be for language learning, and for learning more generally. We explore the potential benefits of video games for English language learners and challenge some of the common misconceptions that exist about video games.

The novel coronavirus outbreak presents huge and unexpected challenges for the education community worldwide. As an international exams group, Cambridge Assessment has a range of resources and digital products available that can support and enable remote teaching and learning.

Dr Julia Yu, Cambridge International’s Regional Professional Development Manager for East Asia, shares how the novel coronavirus has impacted on teaching and learning in China.

Harriet Dean, Co-Chair of our Women in Leadership staff network, reflects on the 'Communications Masterclass' that was given as part of The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge series of events.

In celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Cambridge Assessment’s Group Archivist Gillian Cooke looks back at science exams for female candidates.

Helen Ash, Monitor/Educator on The Network's online courses, discusses her experience working with Cambridge Assessment and the importance of studying assessment.

Four staff from our Environment staff network share their mission to help improve sustainability and protect the environment, and explain how Cambridge Assessment supports them in doing that.

Jaideep Prabhu gives an insight into innovation and why the best innovation is often fast, fun and frugal.

Five years ago Cambridge Assessment International Education launched their first ever graduate scheme, which saw four fresh-faced newly graduated individuals join the organisation on an 18-month training contract. We spoke with two of the graduate scheme success stories still working at Cambridge Assessment.

Helen Rees-Bidder explains why oral skills should be an important part of learning and development.

Health and Wellbeing Advisor Dianne Muir explores the value of workplace wellbeing and the wellbeing programme available to our staff.

One of the biggest advocates and driving forces behind our existing flexible working culture at Cambridge Assessment is our CEO, Saul Nassé. Here he shares his thoughts, experience and advice on becoming a successful organisation with a flexible working culture.

Practical cookery, the creation of prepared food dishes from raw ingredients, is a life skill. The extent to which it is taught in schools and incorporated into high stakes assessment has an impact upon whether young people emerge into adulthood equipped with the essential skills, knowledge and understanding they need.

In a recently published statistics report, we looked at the number of students taking each GCSE in 2015 and the percentage of these students who went on to take an A Level in the same subject.

Our history subject advisor Asher Goodenough reflects on the human stories which embody the meaning of Black History Month for him.