False alarms cost the UK economy £1 billion a year Over 95% of automatically-generated fire alarms are false alarms Fire and Rescue Services distracted from genuine emergencies over the busy festive period As the countdown to Christmas gets well and truly underway with offices and places of work getting into […]
A UK firm has launched a revolutionary product designed to tackle the problem of plastic pollution caused by children’s craft glitter. Glitter company Ronald Britton, has launched a new eco-friendly glitter which will degrade naturally in the environment and is based on plants rather than plastic. The new product, Craft Bioglitter®, will be distributed […]
From technology that turns urine into electricity to care robots for the elderly, the MadeAtUni campaign celebrates the transformational impact of UK universities Futuristic headsets to help paralysed people to communicate, smart baby buggies for the blind, a toilet that flushes without water and the development of a new scrum technique to make rugby safer […]
• Participating schools have achieved an average eight per cent reduction in car use on the journey to school • Almost half of London schools are accredited to TfL’s STARS programme to encourage active and safer travel • Research shows that a quarter of weekday morning peak car trips are for school drop-offs Twenty eight […]
Primary pupils create thousands of apps to take computing prize Pupils at St Swithun Wells’ Catholic Primary School in Hillingdon are celebrating after receiving a national computing award. The West London school has been recognised as a UK Coding Champion by Discovery Education, which provides digital and coding resources to primary schools. Pupils at St […]
As we approach the season of goodwill, National Anger Awareness Week (1st-7th December) is well placed in the calendar to shine a light on anger as a social issue which needs to be brought out into the open and addressed effectively. Last year the British Association of Anger Management created an innovative ‘Keep Your Cool […]
Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) have announced the 2019 deadline for the HART Prize for Human Rights. The Prize includes two competitions, an essay and a creative competition, which encourage young people (aged 11 – 25) to examine and engage critically with human rights, focusing on the areas in which HART works. It is a […]
3D gaming technology is being used by a team from the University of Exeter to take students and researchers on virtual field trips to the Arctic Circle. The Interactive Virtual Environments for Teaching and Assessment – InVEnTA – uses the latest advances in 3D imaging to take students and researchers to environments from the sunny […]
Head teacher at Upper Batley High School Samantha Vickers explains how Supply Desk’s reading intervention programme ‘Love to Read’ improved pupils’ reading age across the school, which has a high proportion of English as an additional language (EAL) and special educational needs (SEN) students. About the school Upper Batley High School (UBHS) in Batley, […]
The McPin Foundation, the mental health research charity, today reveals the Top 10 most important, unanswered questions about children and young people’s mental health at a launch event in Parliament. The Right People, Right Questions project set out to identify gaps in research on children and young people’s mental health, as identified by children and […]
