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Professor Peter Tymms, Former Director of iPIPS, CEM* and School of Education, Durham University This week’s PISA results show that England’s performance has hardly changed since the last round of assessments in 2012. Indeed, England’s results and...
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This blog post is taken from the first part of a presentation Stephen Tierney (@leadinglearner) gave at the Learning First Conference in Sheffield on...
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by Dimitra Kokotsaki Moving from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3 can be a big upheaval for many pupils. Schools work hard to ease the transition with a...
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Enabling wider access to Higher Education by Laura da Costa In June of this year, a team of CEM researchers, at Durham University, travelled to...
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Do you avoid maths at all costs? How do you feel when working out your change, splitting a bill between friends, or helping with your child’s...
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The summer holidays are finally here and offer a long awaited break after SATs, GCSEs and A-levels. There has been a raft of changes which have hit...
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by Professors Christine Merrell and Peter Tymms Last week saw the publication of the new online and open-access report, Understanding What Works in...
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I give a fair number of talks to groups of teachers and school leaders on the subject of connecting educational research with their practice. Often I...
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New research from CEM shows that the length of a child’s name is not predictive of future academic attainment. There are few who would dispute that...
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By Dr Helen Cramman Science is not short of big questions to ask: How did the universe begin? How did life on earth begin? What makes us human? I...
