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New rules restore headteachers’ power to exclude disruptive children

16 April 2012 | No comments

New rules published today will put an end to excluded pupils winning the right to come back to school against the headteacher’s wishes.

Funding boost for Techniquest brings science to life

10 April 2012 | No comments

Techniquest and Techniquest Glyndŵr are to receive Welsh Government funding of £1, 300,600 and £349,400 respectively to further extend their science and mathematics programmes for schools.

Government Cloud takes flight

9 April 2012 | No comments

The UK Government have recently launched their G-cloud framework. Savvis’s Government Wide Service (GWS), has now been made available to all UK government departments and third-party suppliers as they have been accepted onto this framework.

Schools raise the flag for recycling

5 April 2012 | No comments

Gloucestershire school children have made unique Olympic themed flags from reused and recycled materials.

Teachers start to take action on behavioural issues

4 April 2012 | No comments

A primary school teacher has brought the issue of troubled children back to the forefront.

Cabinet to discuss school building improvements

4 April 2012 | No comments

Schools in Swansea are set to benefit from a building improvements scheme being discussed by Swansea Council’s Cabinet this week.

RCN sets out guidance for school nurses on sexual health and emergency contraception

4 April 2012 | No comments

School nurses are ideally placed to provide sexual health and contraceptive advice, the Royal College of Nursing has said.

Is the government trying to privatise the school system?

3 April 2012 | No comments

There seems to be a lot of talk about the privatisation of schools in the UK. The story is a little convoluted as it suggests a majority of schools will be privatised by 2015.

Knowsley Council has frozen its prices for school meals

3 April 2012 | No comments

Families facing mounting pressures on their finances will welcome a decision from Knowsley Council not to increase the prices of its school meals for a year.

College funding outlined

30 March 2012 | No comments

Students will benefit from better job prospects as top-up funding for colleges will protect student places, improve skills and ensure courses match employers’ need.

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29 March 2012 | No comments

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Raising the bar in PE teaching

29 March 2012 | No comments

Every school pupil in Scotland will benefit from at least two hours per week of physical education in primary school and two periods in S1 to S4 by 2014.

Nursery Takes a View on Learning

29 March 2012 | No comments

Area Partnership funding will provide young children in Darlaston with access to a whole new world.

University teaching budgets slashed and student places down as government cuts start to bite

29 March 2012 | No comments

English universities will see their teaching budgets slashed by a third this academic year (2012/13) and there will be 11,000 fewer student places available as government cuts to higher education start to bite.

North Yorkshire leads the way in tackling absence in schools

29 March 2012 | No comments

A pioneering early intervention strategy to reduce pupil absence in North Yorkshire’s schools is paying dividends. The county’s absence rates, published yesterday, are some of the best in the country.

Numeracy improves in primary schools

28 March 2012 | No comments

Scotland’s primary classes, implementing Curriculum for Excellence, are achieving and sustaining high performance in numeracy skills while more focussed action will be taken in secondary classes to raise standards, Education Secretary Michael Russell said today.

Gloucestershire schools get help to go green

28 March 2012 | No comments

Gloucestershire County Council hosted the 2012 Low Carbon Conference for Gloucestershire schools. There were practical workshops for the schools to take part in, as well as presentations and lots of information to take away.