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Wider approach needed to encourage more female engineering apprentices
• Women who choose engineering tend to make career decisions later than male peers • Initiatives should be broader and focus on young women 15-25 • Women with interests in creative crafts and arts should also be targeted Many more young women could...
New BP Ultimate STEM Challenge competition asks students: what would you reimagine?
This year the BP Ultimate STEM Challenge is back and it’s even better! For the first time, BP, in partnership with STEM Learning, is inviting UK students aged 11 to 14 to use their STEM skills to tackle one simple challenge: reimagine a solution to a...
BACK TO SCHOOL GERMS – KEEPING YOUR CHILD HEALTHY
With children across Stockport now back at school for over a week, the chances are that many parents are already dealing with new-term bugs and sniffles. And even though it is simple advice, one of the easiest ways to reduce the chances of your child...
BinaryBots and BLOODHOUND SSC get children revved up about technology
BinaryBots – which produces ‘smart toys’ to teach children to code – has agreed a deal with The BLOODHOUND Project to produce a replica of its SuperSonic Car (SSC) in advance of its land speed record attempt. The Cardboard2Code JetCar™...
London Grid for Learning (LGfL) drives UK’s largest rollout of anti-malware software for schools
The London Grid for Learning (LGfL) is proud to announce it is now driving what we hope will be the UK’s largest rollout of anti-malware software for schools. The not-for-profit trust which provides high-speed uncontended broadband and associated...
University of Exeter to save over £10 million in new partnership with TechnologyOne
The University’s Future Finance programme is targeted to deliver £1.3 million a year in savings, all of which will be reinvested into frontline academic services. The University of Exeter, a notable research specialist and member of the Russell...
Teachers top resolutions are to achieve work-life balance and not work evenings and weekends
You won’t be hearing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ or the sound of fireworks, but teachers across the country are ringing in the New Year, with a poll revealing 87% of 3,470 educators see September as the new year rather than January. Research conducted by the...
Why Twinkl is asking schools to get behind BBC Children in Need in 2018
The online educational publisher Twinkl is partnering with BBC Children in Need this year to support schools to raise as much money as possible for disadvantaged children and young people. As Proud Schools Partner Twinkl will be providing free...
University of Exeter to save over £10 million in new partnership with TechnologyOne
The University’s Future Finance programme is targeted to deliver £1.3 million a year in savings, all of which will be reinvested into frontline academic services. 03 September 2018 – The University of Exeter, a notable research specialist and member...
NEO LMS wins the 2018 Tech Edvocate Award for Best Learning Management System
NEO, the learning management system (LMS) for schools and universities created by CYPHER LEARNING, has been announced as the winner of the Tech Edvocate Award for “Best Learning Management System”, for a second year running. The Tech Edvocate Awards...
LINCOLN PUPILS TO BENEFIT FROM SCHOOL’S ECO-FRIENDLY STEPS
THE money a secondary school is expected to save by taking small steps to become more eco-friendly will be pumped back into the curriculum – benefiting more than 1,200 students in Lincoln. More than 1,600 LED lights are being installed at the North...
Free teaching resources from The Open University
Free teaching resources from The Open University The Open University (OU) has teamed up with Cisco Networking Academy (NetAcad), Birmingham City University, and Computing At School (CAS) to offer a free collection of courses developed for teachers of...
