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UCL Institute of Education

October 2026

  • Norman Graves, balding and wearing glasses, speaks in profile view

    Other lives
    Norman Graves obituary

    Other lives: Geography teacher who went on to reshape the way his subject was taught in schools

April 2026

  • Girl raising her hand in a secondary school class

    Teaching in classes grouped by ability does not hamper progress of less able pupils, study finds

    Research on maths teaching in English secondary schools upends decades of debate over mixed-ability education

August 2025

  • A student in a  classroom types on a laptop keyboard.

    Students who use keyboards in exams get better scores, research finds

    Exclusive: All pupils, including those with learning difficulties, made big improvements in tests when using word processors

June 2025

  • Claire Callender

    Other lives
    Claire Callender obituary

    Other lives: Expert on student funding who was a staunch advocate of maintenance grants

March 2025

  • School pupils raising their hands in a classroom

    Boys widen gap over girls in maths and science in England, study reveals

    Analysis of post-Covid performance overturns recent claims that boys are falling behind girls at school

June 2024

  • An electron microscope image of coronaviruses.

    Covid immune response study could explain why some escape infection

    Subjects who kept virus at bay showed rapid response in nasal immune cells and more activity in early-alert gene

October 2023

  • John Bynner

    Other lives
    John Bynner obituary

    Other lives: Founding director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies committed to informing policy that improved people’s lives

July 2023

  • Bob Cowen was an expert in how educational systems navigate global influences

    Other lives
    Bob Cowen obituary

    Other lives: Leading light in the development of comparative education as an academic field

January 2023

  • Anthony Dyson in his printmaking studio

    Other lives
    Anthony Dyson obituary

    Other lives: Artist, master printer, art historian and teacher who, at the Institute of Education, led the first MA course for art and design teachers

December 2021

  • A third of young people polled said they did not think reporting worked.

    Three in four girls have been sent sexual images via apps, report finds

    Just over half of teenagers who had been sent non-consensual sexual images via social media apps reported it, the report finds

July 2020

  • Teenage pupils in a chemistry class

    Teenage boys' academic ambition may explain gender pay gap, study says

    UCL research found boys tended to have higher-reaching plans for university applications

January 2019

  • Child with arguing parents

    Parents' break-up more likely to harm mental health of children aged seven to 14

    Research shows a 16% rise in emotional problems and 8% rise in conduct disorders

December 2016

  • Jagdish Gundara was an authority on education for diversity.

    Other lives
    Jagdish Gundara obituary

    Other lives: Unesco professor of intercultural studies

January 2015

  • Barbara Tizard

    Barbara Tizard obituary

    Psychologist with a special interest in early child development

May 2014

  • grammar schools

    Grammar schools create wider pay gap, research finds

    Study finds in areas with selective schools those at the top of the pay scale enjoy a wider margin in pay over those at the bottom

March 2014

  • Why has Lord Nash vetoed the 'outstanding' Institute of Education's plans for a training school

    Speed read
    Why did Lord Nash really reject the Institute of Education's bid for a university training school?

    Warwick Mansell: Institute's head says 'lack of experience' was not mentioned; E-Act's failing academies; will Nottingham University academy recognise unions? And the mysterious secret Ofsted report

January 2014

  • Bored at work office work weaves pencils in hair

    Blog
    Women's writing groups: five reasons to start one

  • A graphic of how microscopic breast cancer cells would look.

    Research in brief
    Research roundup – 10 January 2014

December 2013

  • Education secretary Michael Gove

    Swedish results fall abruptly as free school revolution falters

    Once a shining example for Michael Gove Sweden has now recorded the largest drop in maths performance over 10 years

July 2013

  • A month in Space : Collage of solar images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

    Research in brief
    Research in brief – 18 July 2013

    Our weekly round-up aimed at showcasing the latest research across the subject spectrum at UK universities

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