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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Education and Curriculum Team from our Research Division explore the changes made to assessment in the United Kingdom this year in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. This is the second instalment in the Covid-19 Curriculum Watch series.

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The Education and Curriculum Team from our Research Division examine the impact that the Coronavirus pandemic has had on education policy in the United Kingdom. This piece is the first in what will shape a Covid-19 Curriculum Watch blog series.

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The Covid-19 outbreak has caused disruption for schools and teachers around the world. Andrew Field, eLearning Manager for Cambridge Assessment International, looks at the use of eLearning during the crisis and the positive ways Cambridge teachers worldwide have been responding.

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Geoff Stead’s keynote speech at the Cambridge Summit of Education called for a more radical approach to technology in education.

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When questioning whether or not we should ‘scrap GCSEs’ it is important to consider the history of our external exams system here in England. Andrew Watts talks us through the history of external exams in England. He highlights how and why a policy to abolish secondary exams was once agreed by the British government, but never happened.

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Professor Rose Luckin's keynote speech at the Cambridge Summit of Education asked whether education is ready for AI, and suggested how educators can help future learners outwit the robots.

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Stakeholder Relationships Manager at OCR, Ruth Carter, first contacted Luminary Bakery four years ago when it came to her attention that they were offering the OCR Life and Living Skills Introductory Award as part of their training which helps empower some of the UK's most disadvantaged women to reach their potential.

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