While philosophers ponder life’s big questions and poets play with words to convey their ideas, psychologists carry out scientific research. They have many options: observe people, ask people questions or set up conditions to see how people react. In broad terms,...
Technology is in our lives, affecting how people work, shop, socialise, connect, play, and learn. Technology has changed the way people learn. Information is no longer confined to textbooks; learning now crosses borders, continents and cultures, and the available...
Most of us at some stage have considered the value of league tables – either as parents, educators, or possibly even as students ourselves. Headline numbers about a school’s academic success, may actually tell us more about the students than the teachers, and are not...
There has been an undeserved stigma associated with vocational learning for decades. Only now are we beginning to see value being placed on delivering tailored training to individuals pursuing specific career paths, as employers recognise the growing value of self...
As recently as 2014, Elizabeth Loftus wrote that as well as being easily created, false memories could also last a long time. However, the latest research questions whether false memories are indeed as easy to induce as psychologists like Loftus would have us...
Uptake in ‘Modern Foreign Languages’ has been declining year-on-year throughout the UK education system, from schools to universities, for at least the past seven years. Education professionals have stated the reasons for the decline include: most school systems...
