09/10/2020 - 09:55
TV presenters and adventurers, Paul Rose and Kate Humble, have given their support to school visits, as a generation of young people risk missing out on these experiences.
09/10/2020 - 09:42
£120 million has been made available for a second wave of Institutes of Technology (IoT) - a collaborations between Further Education colleges, universities and business.
08/10/2020 - 12:27
Over half of Britain’s schoolchildren suffered from tired eyes or headaches as they were being home-schooled during the Covid-19 lockdown, according to an online YouGov survey commissioned by the vision charity Clearly.
08/10/2020 - 10:39
The Scottish Government has announced that national 5 exams are to be cancelled in Scotland in 2021 and replaced with teacher assessments and coursework, while Higher and Advanced Higher exams will go ahead in 2021.
08/10/2020 - 09:47
Renault has created a “lollipop” with air pollution sensors to encourage drivers to not idle in their vehicles on the school run.
08/10/2020 - 09:23
A new model has been published that shows that lower outdoor air pollution (NO2) levels could improve a child’s ability to learn.
07/10/2020 - 11:11
The government has been urged to take action and change fire safety legislation that would see all new build and refurbished schools fitted with sprinklers, following fires in Derbyshire.
07/10/2020 - 10:03
The prime minister has outlined how one-to-one teaching will be taken further for pupils that need to catch up and those with “exceptional ability”, during his speech at the Conservatives’ virtual conference.
07/10/2020 - 09:23
According to new analysis from the vision charity Clearly shows that around 50,000 young children each year are at risk of poor vision or even sight loss because of a failure to provide vision screenings in their schools.
06/10/2020 - 11:11
Ofsted has published its first report looking at how schools are managing pupils’ return to education under the current COVID-19 restrictions, based on 121 pilot visits to schools across England carried out last month.
06/10/2020 - 10:10
Government should develop a COBRA-style response to boost skills and job opportunities for young people affected by the Covid-19 crisis, the Local Government Association has said.
06/10/2020 - 09:57
The Education Endowment Foundation has announced three new research studies designed to provide greater understanding of the strategies schools put in place to support pupils throughout Covid-19 closures
