Entrust Support Services Limited (Entrust) continues to disrupt the education sector in England this summer by launching EducationSpace, a digital portal for education professionals. EducationSpace will provide a ‘go to’ place for support, guidance and tools to build sustainable school improvement, raise standards and provide educational excellence. “Excellence in education is at the heart of […]
As today’s younger generations find themselves at the forefront of spearheading political and social change, Young Citizens celebrates three decades of achievements with a high-profile event. The education charity Young Citizens (formerly The Citizenship Foundation) is celebrating thirty years of success in providing opportunities and support to young citizens of the UK this June. To […]
Umarr and Dianna of Holy Cross School, proudly look at the Dot Com Digital programme, which they and their classmates helped design. Dot Com Children’s Foundation and Essex Police will tomorrow announce the launch of a trial of a new online safety resource at a primary school in Thurrock, Essex. The resource will be used […]
On June 27th 2019, Local Media Initiatives, a Community Interest Company based in Milton Keynes will host a conference focused on Female Genital Mutilation, Forced Marriages and Honour Killings. The conference called ‘Open Conversations’ is the first in a series of annual conferences which would focus on issues generally regarded as ‘taboo subjects’ and aim […]
School children across England are to benefit from extra lessons on the dangers of carrying knives. The Home Office has been working with the Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) Association and teachers to create new and improved school curriculum materials on knife crime ahead of the summer holidays. Today (5 June 2019) 20,000 PSHE […]
FundStar, a not-for-personal-profit enterprise set up by serial entrepreneur David Evans MBE, has been formally launched today after successful trials to offer schools a strategic and co-ordinated approach to their fundraising activity. As schools experience a reduction in real-terms funding and increased costs, the pressure to raise money by alternative means is growing. Whilst campaigns […]
• Cambridge University made the highest number of offers this year (67) to state-educated Welsh students – an offer rate of 31% • Participants on the Seren-Jesus College Summer School in 2018 attained the highest offer rate to date of 27%, with 11 of 41 applicants being offered places at Oxford • Applications from Welsh […]
Portal Educational Training is expanding its services into North Wales following 300% business growth in the past three years. The Cardiff-based training provider has quadrupled the strength of its workforce in the North over the past 18 months after learner numbers in the region more than tripled from 30 to more than 100 in […]
Education technology (EdTech) specialist, Wand Education, has announced a key milestone in its aim of delivering significant efficiencies across the UK education sector, with the launch of an innovative online teaching resource. The new content package contains a range of high-quality, ready-made lesson plans and support resources for GCSE History teachers. It is the […]
A New Programme for the Hunter-Gatherers in Education To encourage pupils to develop a genuine interest in Britain’s rich history, award-winning experience provider, Ancient Britain, has developed a series of hands-on experiences to enhance learning and information absorption. These experiences encourage tactile learning, a welcome contrast to the stationary learning that children are largely […]
