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The Gender Gap in Maths

On Thursday 19th January, I was invited onto the Today Programme on Radio 4 to comment on some new research about the ‘gender gap’ in the highest levels of Maths.   As is often the case, I had lots more I could have said, but we were restricted by time, and, of course that it was a news programme not…

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Kate: Kelvin Cantlon

Computing Education – working together to make it work.

There has been much media coverage of the Education Secretary’s speech about enabling a new approach to teaching ICT and computing in schools.  I’ve been catching up with it in the Guardian. Not many links in this blog, probably because it’s a personal, strongly held opinion. I feel these changes are long overdue; however I’m breathing a sigh of relief that…

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Big Bang Fair 2011

Kate at The Big Bang Fair