Insights

Insights provide a platform for sharing our views and research on the big education topics that impact assessment around the globe

We have a searchable archive where you can view all Insights on a wide range of current issues in education.

Many organisations use their location, building’s architecture and interior design of working spaces to shape and reflect work practices and organisational culture.

In 2018, staff moved from multiple Cambridge office sites to purpose built building, 'Triangle', and the Research Division of Cambridge University Press & Assessment seized this opportunity to find out how the physical environment influences work practice and whether the move to Triangle met its purpose.

Loic Menzies and Cambridge Assessment Network are leading a conversation about the need to build a more equitable education system, and how we might go about doing that by bringing together cross-sector support.

Our series of events, Mapping the Way to a More Equitable Future for Education, is part of the Network's mission to bring high-quality assessment dialogue and practice to the sector. We are asking you to get involved in the conversation, and this list of resources will help to further your understanding.

A report has been published by the Centre for Education and Youth and Pearson UK casting light on what schools and teachers need to do to tackle the big challenges around assessment. Cambridge Assessment Network fully support the recommendations laid out in Making Waves: Building a better future for assessment and here they reflect on how they can best be implemented.

School blazer, face mask and backpack hanging on a coat hook

As face-to-face and blended learning restarts for most learners across the UK, the Education and Curriculum Team from our Research Division look at how curriculum policy and practice in the four different UK nations is being affected by the pandemic. This is the fourth instalment in our Covid-19 Curriculum Watch series.

Timeline from January to September 2020 and the impact of Covid-19 on schools being closed across the four UK nations and the approaches to teaching and learning during that time

In the third blog in our series our Education and Curriculum team catalogue the educational responses across the four nations of the UK to the current pandemic.

Our publications

A101: Introducing the Principles of Assessment

CPD accredited online courses

First cohort receives advanced award from the Assessment Network

How do our office buildings and environments influence working practice and culture?

Recommended reading: Mapping the Way to a More Equitable Future for Education

Making Waves: Transforming teaching practice through enhanced assessment expertise

Covid-19 Curriculum Watch 4: Curriculum choices and the pandemic

Covid-19 Curriculum Watch 3: Learning access, resources, and assessment guidance during the pandemic