Six newly funded projects by the Wellcome Trust and EEF were announced today. The projects seek to investigate a variety of ways neuroscience might improve teaching and learning in the UK.
See below for media coverage;
- Later school start time ‘may boost GCSE results’ (BBC)
- Children will get extra hour in bed as schools sign up to performance tests (Times)
- Major study of teenage sleep patterns aims to assess impact on learning (Guardian)
- Experiment will show whether teenagers perform better – after a lie-in (Independent)
- Teenagers to start school at 10am in Oxford University sleep experiment (Telegraph)
- Teenagers to sleep late for neuroscience (TES)
- Thousands of pupils to take part in trial to see if a later start will make a difference (Daily Mail)
- Trial will test if longer lie-ins lead to better GCSE results(FT)