By Andrew Goff, Director, ONVU Learning The ONVU Learning team has recently enjoyed several intense days of conversations with senior school leaders and Multi-Academy Trust CEOs at the Inspiring Leadership Conference 2019, The Sheffield Hallam Festival of Education, and at Childcare Expo in Manchester. It’s clear that schools are facing an increasingly complex set of…
Weduc, the whole school parental engagement and communications platform, has acquired STAR, the Schools Transport Automatic Register system for management of educational transport. Now known as Weduc Transport, this award-winning, innovative system enhances the safety, security, operational efficiency and transparency of the educational transport service. Weduc Transport’s cutting-edge technology enables schools and parents to track…
A one-of-a-kind institute for popular music in the Black Country offering degrees for students seeking a career in a range of music industries will be opening its doors next year. Resonance will have some of the best minds in music, teaching students everything from popular music performance, production, composition and business. Based in the…
Health and social care is the most stressful industry to work in while the education industry has the highest rates of stress reported by the employees, according to analysis by The Office Group (TOG). TOG calculated an overall stress score for 12 industries across the UK, using public data on the number of self-reported stress…
A one day event at the University of Kent’s Canterbury campus on Thursday 5 September will bring together businesses and organisations with cyber security problems and challenges to meet with cyber security experts and researchers to discuss the increasing number of cyber threats, what can be done to combat them, and how to make businesses…
A Lancashire school teamed up with Blackpool Zoo to add its voice to a global conservation campaign. After learning about the plight of endangered songbirds in Asia, Layton School, in Blackpool, has been working closely with the zoo’s bird section and education team to raise awareness of the European Association of Zoo’s and Aquariums’ Silent Forest…
73% of young Britons go on holiday in search of historical or cultural sights 77% of 16-24-year olds are opting to take micro-gaps over longer trips Almost half (44%) of UK adults believe job prospects are enhanced by combining travel and learning The party may be winding down, as new research commissioned by London Stansted…
Avaya smart campus solutions increase security and child safety, encouraging smarter use of communications and collaboration Guildford, UK – July 24th 2019 – Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) today announces that its technology has enabled Loughborough Schools Foundation, a group of four independent schools and a nursery in Leicestershire, to introduce a ‘Safe School’ solution, the…
A Shropshire student who travelled from Armenia to join the sixth form at Wrekin College has won a highly-coveted full scholarship to study economics in Madrid. Margarita Gevorgyan faced a tough four-month application process to win the scholarship which covers all expenses associated with her degree including accommodation, tuition fees and travel expenses. It is…
Triton Construction has secured a contract worth £2 million to build a new extension at Penistone Grammar School in Barnsley. The overall investment by the local authority was for a two-phase project: Internal re-modelling that was completed in October 2018 to enable an additional 50 year 7 students to be accommodated in the 2018/19 academic…
A snapshot of education in the late 1960s from a former Deptford boys’ teacher exactly 50 years on from her first summer of teaching 1968. Susan Elkin is just twenty-one-years-old when she is sent straight out from a sheltered teacher training college into the depths of a challenging inner London boys secondary school. Her skirts…
Northwhich school awarded IQM Flagship Accreditation Rudheath Primary Academy in Northwich, Cheshire – part of the Focus Trust – has been awarded Inclusion Quality Mark* Flagship Status for its efforts to include both parents and pupils as leaders in education and to inform pupils about diversity amongst their classmates. The award has been handed out…
Can school design help us to realise a new vision for education that equips young people for life in a fast-changing world? How can we design schools for the next generation for jobs that do not yet exist? And can we help children to want to go to school in the morning with design? These…
Tuesday 23rd July 2019 – Today, Samsung Electronics UK announced that following the success of its Energy In Schools pilot scheme, it will be rolling out the initiative to an additional 20 schools around the UK this year, in partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Energy, My Utility Genius Commercial and Lancaster University. Pilot schools…
Robo Wunderkind is an award-winning edtech company that provides innovative early education solutions currently in use in over 200 schools worldwide. The company’s mission is to provide easy-to-use and delightful STEM education to an underserved key segment of the market – K-5 education. In the US, Robo Wunderkind launched cooperation with Eduporium, Follet, and is…
20 primary schools receive tickets as part of Nike and Discovery Education’s Active Kids Do Better Programme The Müller Anniversary Games will welcome some very special guests this weekend, as over 1,000 schoolkids, teachers and parents head to the London Stadium on Saturday 20th July. 20 primary schools received tickets to the world-leading athletics event…
Helen Main, ITT Manager at Unity Schools Partnerships, has been named Administrator of the Year by the National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers (NASBTT), the voice of school-led initial teacher training and development. Helen beat off fierce competition from Ailsa Anderton (North West SCITT) and Cathy Scott (Kirklees and Calderdale SCITT), who were runners-up in…
To assist schools in England with their preparation for lifesaving first aid training in 2020, Eureka!, a leading supplier of first aid to schools, has sourced a fantastic training package designed to make training and learning of lifesaving skills both easy and enjoyable. The Mini Medics First Aid and Defibrillation for Children course is supported…
As part of graduation week, Solent University has pledged to continue supporting the region’s thriving technology community following its largest-ever donation from a former student. British award-winning tech entrepreneur and Solent alumnus, Sean Yazbeck, has donated £100,000 to fund a new enterprise centre at the University, dedicated to digital innovation. Set to open in the…
Employees at Poole-based business Eureka!, usually spend their spare time relaxing after a day’s work processing orders and advising customers across the UK on the most suitable first aid supplies. However, 20 members of staff have kicked off a rigorous training regime after signing up to pull a Boeing 737 in support of Julia’s House…
Data comes from a survey of over 12,000 young people aged between 11 and 19 carried out by the mental health charity Mind Three in five young people (59 per cent) have either experienced a mental health problem themselves, or are close to someone who has, according to major new research by Mind that shows…
Family For Every Child calls on education organisations across the globe to sign up Schools and other education providers are being invited to sign up to an international charter which aims to change the way societies tackle sexual violence affecting young males. It is estimated that 1 in 6 boys worldwide experiences sexual abuse. And…
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Today (Monday 1 July 2019), BBC Children in Need has announced that Joe Wicks has been appointed as the charity’s first ever Schools Ambassador. Joe Wicks has teamed up with the charity and its Official Education Partner Twinkl to inspire and empower thousands of schoolchildren to get fundraising for BBC Children in Need’s 2019 Appeal,…
