Cambridge Assessment Podcasts

As part of the Cambridge Assessment Summit of Education, Group Archivist Gillian Cooke led a breakout session looking back at the technology Cambridge Assessment used in the 19th and 20th centuries. Here she explains how the group has continually embraced innovation. Cambridge Assessment has a 160-year legacy but without technology we couldn’t have started! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How can we get more girls into STEM subjects? Professor Dame Athene Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge, talks about her life in science and her advice to school leaders on getting girls into STEM. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cambridge English have been working to help refugees access education, training and English language courses, as Will Shaw and Chloe Saville explain in the third of our podcast series on refugee education. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sol, Lee and Peter from the Cambridge Refugee Support Committee talk about volunteering in Calais, France, in the second episode of our refugee education series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first of a three-part refugee education special, Sol and Sinead explain how the Cambridge Refugee Support Committee started and what they do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gillian Cooke, Group Archivist, Cambridge Assessment talks through a special exhibition currently housed at Cambridge University Press which illustrates our 170-year working partnership. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Colleen McLaughlin shares her long history in the field of emotional development and resilience in young people. She explains why it is important and explores whether can we teach it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Sinéad Fitzsimons shared her experiences of projects designed to open doors for migrants to access education and how they dovetail with the work of Cambridge Assessment and partners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR, predicts the impact of Ofsted's (the UK schools watchdog) new proposed inspection framework and whether it will help to reverse the current perceived emphasis on test scores as a means to judge whether a school is performing well. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Croft and Gabriel Heller Sahlgren from the Centre for Education Economics (CfEE) talk about what the CfEE does, why education economics is important and how their regular research digest is changing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.