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UCL staff and students can now access Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft Copilot is a safer generative AI tool than using the consumer-oriented generative AI services, provided you log in with your UCL credentials.

New article on jigsaw learning published in Sage Journals The jigsaw classroom is a cooperative learning method designed in the late 1970s to improve the academic performance of minority children by reducing intergroup conflict and increasing self-evaluations.

Since the pandemic, the percentage of students missing about one month of class time per year has more than doubled, Johns Hopkins researchers say For most of American educational history, the concep

Women took on more education-related childcare responsibilities than men during the first several months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and this disparity was even sharper for some lower-income women, according to a new University of Wisconsin-Madison study.

Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Published: Digitalization in schools not only means modern and up-to-date delivery of teaching content, but also offers a wide range of opportunities to strengthen the social skills of children and youths.

UCL Accommodation is committed to supporting students who are care-experienced or estranged, and we encourage students to apply for accommodation in our Halls.

The growing use of online dating websites, apps and chatrooms has an influence on the types of romantic partners Canadians choose, according to a new UBC sociology study.

"Digital Coach" Receives Award for Best Practice Project The project shows how companies can keep pace with digitization and use it for their purpose.

The trauma associated with care experience casts a long shadow on mothers' mental health and that of their children, finds new UCL research. The researchers found that mothers who had lived in care were at greater risk of mental health difficulties than their peers who hadn't experienced care, with their children also experiencing higher rates of psychological problems.

A study by researchers at the University of Washington and Northwestern University found 84% of Black parents and 76% of white parents spoke to their 8- to 11-year-old children about the Black Lives Matter, or BLM, movement within a year of the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

Are Children School Ready? Research by Dr. K. Purdam and colleagues from Social Statistics has highlighted the substantial differences in School Readiness at the individual, school and local area levels in England.

Under the principal supervision of Jim Plumat, Professor of Physics Didactics at UNamur, Cédric Vanhoolandt's thesis, which straddles cognitive psychology and disciplinary didactics, has as its main hypothesis that inhibitory control training could be transferred to teaching disciplines in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (science, mathematics, spelling.

A comprehensive new survey reveals the changing face of UK families amid recent economic, social, and political turmoil.