Blogs

Uzma is Cambridge International’s Country Director for Pakistan, based in Islamabad. She tells us about balancing her career with family life, tackling self-doubt, and doing what feels right.

Sujata is the CEO of Cambridge Boxhill Language Assessment (CBLA), the Melbourne-based organisation that develops and manages the Occupational English Test (OET).

Chloe Shaw and Sarah Rogerson from Cambridge Assessment English seek your support and ideas on collaborating to support refugees and asylum seekers with English.

We've been working with Malaysia so much that it's begun to feel like a home away from home for our Deputy Director of Partnerships, Projects and Policy, Hanan Khalifa.

Joanna Williamson and David Summers encouraged critical thinking and highlighted how paying attention to research and reflecting on the basics leads to good assessment design at this year's Annual Admissions Conference in Newport, Wales.

Cambridge Assessment English's Deputy Director of Partnerships, Projects and Policy, Hanan Khalifa, reflects on her first professional visit to the small island with a big Cambridge Assessment relationship.

William Saville, our Business Development Manager for the UK at Cambridge Assessment English, reflects on his first visit to the UCAS Annual Admissions Conference, held this year in Newport, Wales.

Andrew Nye and Dr Evelina Galaczi from Cambridge Assessment English were challenged to think critically about the future of teaching and learning at this year's SXSW Edu conference in Texas.

Elizabeth Cater, from Cambridge University Press, looks back at where Cambridge Mathematics started, what has been achieved, and where it is going next.

Tammy, who has recently joined the organisation, takes us on a personal tour of California, Paris, China, and Cambridge...

As we welcome another Chinese New Year, Bene't Steinberg learns from the UK's All Parliamentary Group for China why characteristics of the dog are so popular in social circles.

From an abacus to an IBM - how did our technology evolve throughout the twentieth century to support the marking of our examinations?

With new government targets to increase the take up of EBacc subjects among Year 10 students, it seems appropriate to look back at these subjects in the curriculum of our ancestors.

While investigating design challenges for national assessment in this 'accountability era', Sandra Johnson explores international performance surveys which pre-date PISA.

Guest blogger and audience member Jenna Watson shares some of the key takeaways for teachers from our seminar 'Assessing the World - Visiting Cleverlands'.

Martin Robinson asks whether the rise of ed tech is having a particular effect on the quality of education preparing our next generation of artists, who he fears are being prepared for an ‘inauthentic future.’

In 2017 we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of formal establishment of research in Cambridge Assessment. Does this mean that, before 1967, there was no research or research discussion at all in the organisation?

Danish publishing director Anders Hassing engaged with the #TextbooksCount debate, driven by Tim Oates' work, on social media and we invited him to write a guest blog about whether he sees a future for textbooks.

TES columinst Joe Nutt guest blogs for us following a lively debate about the use of technology in education, which Cambridge Assessment sponsored and live-streamed for the Centre for Education Economics.

Guest blogger Ann Gravells explains why she thinks new teachers especially should study the basics of assessment, and how different types of assessment feedback can have an impact on learners’ confidence.