Insights

Insights provide a platform for sharing our views and research on the big education topics that impact assessment around the globe

We have a searchable archive where you can view all Insights on a wide range of current issues in education.

A report has been published by the Centre for Education and Youth and Pearson UK casting light on what schools and teachers need to do to tackle the big challenges around assessment. Cambridge Assessment Network fully support the recommendations laid out in Making Waves: Building a better future for assessment and here they reflect on how they can best be implemented.

School blazer, face mask and backpack hanging on a coat hook

As face-to-face and blended learning restarts for most learners across the UK, the Education and Curriculum Team from our Research Division look at how curriculum policy and practice in the four different UK nations is being affected by the pandemic. This is the fourth instalment in our Covid-19 Curriculum Watch series.

Timeline from January to September 2020 and the impact of Covid-19 on schools being closed across the four UK nations and the approaches to teaching and learning during that time

In the third blog in our series our Education and Curriculum team catalogue the educational responses across the four nations of the UK to the current pandemic.

The Education and Curriculum Team from our Research Division explore the changes made to assessment in the United Kingdom this year in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. This is the second instalment in the Covid-19 Curriculum Watch series.

An infographic timetabling policy developments across the UK since March 2020

The Education and Curriculum Team from our Research Division examine the impact that the Coronavirus pandemic has had on education policy in the United Kingdom. This piece is the first in what will shape a Covid-19 Curriculum Watch blog series.

Our publications

Understanding Assessment: A Practical Course for Teachers

CPD accredited online courses

Making Waves: Transforming teaching practice through enhanced assessment expertise

Covid-19 Curriculum Watch 4: Curriculum choices and the pandemic

Covid-19 Curriculum Watch 3: Learning access, resources, and assessment guidance during the pandemic

Covid-19 Curriculum Watch 2: Changes to assessment in response to the pandemic

Covid-19 Curriculum Watch: Education Policy in the first 3 months of the pandemic