Blogs by Guest Blogger

What is the future of English language teaching in schools? What do we need to do to support the future of English language education? Who decides on the curriculum? Read a summary of the discussions in this final part in our series of blogs reflecting on the week-long SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event.

In this blog, on the penultimate day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus on educational technology. The speakers discussed the role they see technology playing in education by 2040.

In this blog, on the third day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus on learners and their future needs for work. Questions and discussions centred on where we work, how we work, and how this will have to change for the future.

In this blog, on the second day of the five-day SHAPE Education: The Future of Schools event we focus specifically on what education will look like in 20 years’ time.

In this blog, we focus on the first day of the five-day event which aimed to unpack social issues facing the future of education, demonstrate the complexity of the issues in global and local contexts, and identify ways that we might respond to the emerging challenges.

Hear from Cambridge Assessment and Cambridge University Press' first joint staff network, The Young Employees Network, to find out more about the network and how we are supporting young employees. 

As part of our SHAPE Education initiative, we’re hosting monthly debates with educational experts on the future of education. This month we discussed why we need to reimagine the way that skills development happens in our current education system, and explored the model of peer-to-peer learning.

Chair of Cambridge Assessment’s LGBTQIA+ staff network, David Wikramaratna, shares how we’re marking Pride this month and highlights some of the ways the network is helping to make the workplace a more inclusive and safer place to be for all our colleagues.

As part of our SHAPE Education initiative, we’re hosting monthly debates with educational experts on the future of education. This month we asked 'What can we remove from education?' and discussed how we can learn from the way the educational landscape has changed in the last year in relation to the attainment and wellbeing of learners.

A group called Rethinking Assessment has called for GCSEs to be scrapped. But why, and do their arguments hold any merit? Barnaby Lenon examines the case for an overhaul of our exam system.