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Our global impact is “extraordinary” 🌍 We are driving change ✨ We are at the forefront of educational innovation 💡 We are supporting our communities 💜 Our 2023-24 Annual Report reflects how our world-leading education and research is shaping a better and brighter future. #WeAreCambridge 👇 Watch to learn more and read our Annual Report: https://cambrid.ge/3YI2RRt

#NewWords to watch 👀🗣️ Last week, we announced 'manifest' as our #WordOfTheYear2024. This is a word with a 600-year history that shows how meanings of a word can evolve. But, what new words have we seen in 2024? 👇 All year round, our #CambridgeDictionary editors track the English language as it changes. Here are some of the newly emerging words we've been tracking this year: 📱 quishing: the scam of phishing via QR code.  💼 resenteeism: to continue doing your job but resent it. This blend of resent and absenteeism is appearing in business journalism.   🏋️ gymfluencer: a social media influencer whose content is focused on fitness or bodybuilding.  🍸 cocktail party problem (also cocktail party effect): the difficulty of focusing on one voice when there are multiple speakers in the room. This term from audiology is now being used with reference to AI.  🔋 vampire: a vampire device or vampire appliance is one which uses energy even when not in use. This is a new, adjective sense of an existing word. Could these new words be future #CambridgeDictionary entries? We're watching their rise to see if they’ll make the dictionary. Learn more about our #WOTY and other popular words in 2024 🔗: https://cambrid.ge/4fXSal4

Growth, impact and innovation 🌱🌎💡 In this month's View newsletter, we share highlights from Cambridge University Press & Assessment's Annual Report 2023-24, as well as more news and insights from across Cambridge, including: 💬 The story behind Cambridge Dictionary's #WordOfTheYear2024 🌏 Highlights from Cambridge at #COP29 📝 Hundreds of displaced people to take IELTS tests for free ...and more! 👇

"This is a crucial moment in education, and we must not let young people down" OCR CEO Jill Duffy explains why the government's Curriculum and Assessment Review is such a vital opportunity to deliver an education system fit for the future. In our response to the review, we drew on the research from our Striking the Balance report along with expertise from across Cambridge, to identify areas for urgent reform. These include updating and refining the GCSE curriculum, rebalancing assessment at 16, and embracing the opportunities of digital education. Read more: https://cambrid.ge/3B0HseI #strikingthebalance

“We can make education a tool of equity and empowerment” Cambridge International Education Managing Director, Rod Smith, sets out Cambridge’s global education vision in an interview with Pakistan’s News on Sunday. From piloting AI tools to climate change education, Rod discusses how Cambridge is meeting the evolving needs of both educators and learners. 🔗 Read the full interview: https://cambrid.ge/3CKUVry

🌍 Academic research is addressing real-world environmental issues, from the governance of plastics pollution to climate solutions like coastal wetland restoration. Cambridge University Press publishes over 400 journals across multiple disciplines. Our sustainability titles include our Cambridge Prisms series and Global Sustainability journal. 🔗 Here we explore some of our latest sustainability research highlights: https://cambrid.ge/4eDm9xs #COP29 #CambridgeForOurPlanet #AcademicResearch #ResearchPublishing

Every year, #WorkInPublishing Week provides our colleagues with a special chance to meet local students and give back to the community ✨ On Monday, nearly fifty students from across seven local secondary schools in #Cambridge came to our offices to learn more about opportunities to work with us in the future! The event was designed to build connections between #Cambridge and our local community, and to provide interested students with the confidence to stay in touch and take part in other career events that we will be hosting throughout the coming year. Students took part in workshops which helped them prepare their personal statements for future applications and practice their interview skills. The morning ended with every student having a mock interview with our colleague volunteers. Thank you to the local schools, students, teachers, and partners involved, as well as all our colleagues who volunteered their time! 👏 🔗 Read more about our Work in Publishing Week activities: https://cambrid.ge/3Z8FJvY #WeAreCambridge #PursuingPotential #CommunityEngagement The Publishers Association

Christine Ozden's message from #COP29 is clear: education is not just part of the climate solution—it is central to it. 🌎 Our Global Director for Climate Education had a prominent role in three events on Education Day at the global climate conference in Baku this week. Christine co-chaired an ambitious greening education discussion with ICESCO, and participated in two additional panel events focused on legislating for education reform to foster a green skills revolution and sustainability in higher education. In the middle of the action, we asked Christine about her key takeaways and what she hopes to see from next year's conference. Watch the video 👇 🔗 You can read more about what Christine had to say and Cambridge's participation at COP here: https://cambrid.ge/4fzgZDZ #ClimateEducation #CambridgeForOurPlanet

POV: You #WorkInPublishing ✨ As we continue to celebrate The Publishers Association's Work in Publishing Week campaign, Polly Ovenden shows us what a #DayInTheLife at Cambridge looks like through her eyes. 👀 Working in the Cambridge University Press trade and retail marketing team as a Senior Marketing Executive, Polly gets to be creative in her role and work closely with our authors to help make our books a success! 📚 Feeling inspired? Explore careers at Cambridge University Press & Assessment here 🔗: https://lnkd.in/erZb_uxU #WeAreCambridge #PursuingPotential

Why “manifest”? Today we announced #manifest as the Cambridge Dictionary #WordOfTheYear2024. The word was looked up almost 130,000 times on the Cambridge Dictionary website, making it one of the most-viewed words of 2024 as athletes, singers, and entrepreneurs claimed manifesting helped them succeed. But this global trend is highly controversial. To understand why, we spoke to Professor Sander van der Linden , a Cambridge author and professor of psychology at the University of Cambridge. 🔗 Read more about the #CambridgeWOTY here: https://cambrid.ge/4fXSal4 #CambridgeDictionary