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! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Paul Steer, Head of Policy at OCR, talks about what he thinks will be the hot topics in education in 2019, including T Levels, quality of marking, and recent reforms to A Levels and GCSEs. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This groundbreaking exhibition tells the stories of black students in Cambridge, from the forgotten pioneers of centuries past to the celebrated successes of today. Narrated by Favaad Iqbal and Yozzie Osman from the Cambridge Assessment BAME Network. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We hosted, via Periscope, the online of a Policy Exchange seminar on creating a 'powerful knowledge' curriculum in schools. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Following the interest generated by Tim Oates' video for the Department of Education earlier in the year, Cambridge Assessment has commissioned a new 45 minute version, allowing for more explanation as to how the removal of levels in Primary education will open the door to a deeper understanding. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Technology in the classroom today. ALISON project, Futurelearn, Cambridge International Examinations and Cambridge Computing Online demonstrate some innovative uses of technology in learning today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lord David Puttnam CBE FRSA describes how technology enables him to deliver modules to university students across the world from his home in Ireland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chaired by Pat Glass MP, a panel and audience discussion ‘Technology and education: what’s the future for face-to-face learning?’. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology, University of Newcastle, describes his 'schools in the cloud' experiment. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Professor Ewart Keep talks about vocational qualifications and the labour market See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Gillian Cooke and Andrew Watts examine the role of the Corporate Archives from the organisation’s beginnings as the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate in 1858 and through subsequent years of continuity and change. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.