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365 Response signs three year deal to provide digital transport system to National Express Accessible Transport

October 5, 2020 in /by

Yorkshire based digital transport systems provider, 365 Response has signed a three year deal with leading transport operator, National Express Accessible Transport (NEAT). 365 Response’s innovative Smart Platform is seen as a key part of NEAT’s transformation plan to drive improvements in the operation of home-to-school transport across the West Midlands and Warwickshire. The project […]

AJ Products and ukactive investigate how to tackle sedentary behaviour in the workforce

October 5, 2020 in /by

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed new light on an already critical aspect of working life: that of employee health and wellbeing. While awareness of the dangers of sedentary working was already increasing, these unprecedented times underline the importance of companies taking a more comprehensive approach to support the physical and mental wellbeing of their workers […]

Alupro launches campaign to educate primary pupils about recycling

September 30, 2020 in /by

Alupro, the aluminium packaging recycling organisation, has announced the launch of its 2020 primary education programme. From Monday 28September, schools across the UK and Ireland will be recruited to participate in the initiative, which aims to bring recycling into the classroom through science, art, design and PHSE. The anime-inspired Key Stage 2 (KS2) campaign will […]

School safety standards: How to teach our children about allergens

September 30, 2020 in /by

As schools welcome students back, albeit with greater COVID-19 health and safety measures in place, leaders must begin to give thought to other areas of concern too. Namely, food safety standards. With over 30,000 schools in the UK, all focusing more vigilantly on health, safety and risk mitigation to contain the spread of the virus, […]

What we can learn about distance learning technology in light of COVID-19

September 30, 2020 in /by

Rene Buhay, Vice President Sales and Marketing at AVer Europe, explores different approaches to teaching and learning across Europe in light of the pandemic. The delivery of classes and lectures has been transformed all over the world because of COVID-19. Different regions have adopted different approaches to learning depending on the severity of the pandemic […]

Daily COVID-19 testing in schools is vital to save children’s education

September 28, 2020 in /by

Daily COVID-19 testing in schools will keep children in full-time education, stop mass COVID-19 spread, and help keep the economy afloat, according to Professor Abderrahim Taamouti, an Economist at Durham University Business School. Professor Taamouti previously developed an epidemic model to study the trade-off between Covid-19 control, lockdown and testing. The model shows that mass […]

Parent power: teachers worry they will face more pressure from parents after lockdown home-schooling

September 28, 2020 in /by

A new report suggests teachers are worried that they will face more pressure from parents who now want greater input into their children’s education after their lockdown home-schooling experience.  Research1 from specialist insurer Ecclesiastical has found that 69% of teachers believe they are going to face more pressure from parents for greater personalisation thanks to […]

Impington International College expands its educational offering with six new subjects for 2021

September 28, 2020 in /by

Impington International College has launched six new subjects within its educational offering with first teaching from September 2021: International Baccalaureate (IB) Business, IB Global Politics, IB Italian ab initio, IB French ab initio, BTEC Business and BTEC Health and Social Care. The IB subjects will complement the other well-established Diploma Programme (DP) courses on offer […]