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Boosting language learning: Tes interview with Professor Marsden
Posted on Wednesday 18 May 2022
Professor Emma Marsden explains how teachers can improve their delivery of MFL lessons and therefore boost uptake
Department ranked 5th in the UK in REF 2021
Posted on Thursday 12 May 2022
York’s Department of Education is the 5th strongest education department in the UK for research according to the Times Higher Education’s ranking of the latest REF results (2021).
The view from schools on UK climate change policy
Posted on Tuesday 10 May 2022
New research into the attitudes of pupils and teachers towards the UK government's new sustainability and climate change strategy published.
Impact of family background on children’s education unchanged in a century, research reveals
Posted on Wednesday 20 April 2022
The family background of UK children still influences their educational achievements at primary school as much as it did nearly one hundred years ago, a major new study has revealed.
Gaming Grammar proves popular with language pupils
Posted on Friday 25 March 2022
Use of a code-cracking online game designed to help pupils learn modern foreign language grammar has more than quadrupled in the last 12 months.
Study casts doubt on benefits of grammar teaching in helping children learn to write
Posted on Friday 4 March 2022
Lessons on grammar are a key feature of the national curriculum taught in England’s primary schools, but they don’t appear to help children to learn to write, new research reveals.
York research centre plays key role in new reforms to GCSE Languages
Posted on Tuesday 18 January 2022
Experts from the Department's National Centre for Excellence for Language Pedagogy have played a key role behind major changes to the way GCSE languages are taught.
Sexual harassment in Higher Education research
Posted on Friday 19 November 2021
Research by CRESJ's Dr Anna Bull into sexual harassment in higher education has featured in a number of news outlets in light of Al Jazeera's Degrees of Abuse investigation which found that universities were failing to adequately deal with complaints of staff sexual harassment.
UYSEG research highlights the issue of sustainability in education during COP26
Posted on Thursday 18 November 2021
A Manifesto for Education for Environmental Sustainability, co-led by Dr Lynda Dunlop of the University of York Science Education Group and Dr Elizabeth Rushton of King's College London, was launched by BERA on 1 November.
What could a longer school day mean for teachers?
Posted on Monday 8 November 2021
Dr Lisa Kim and Professor Kathryn Asbury write about the potential impact extending the school day would have on teachers, a strategy being considered to mitigate potential learning losses from the pandemic.