New analysis by children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust places an economic value on the critical importance of free-to-access school sport and physical activity for a child’s mental wellbeing for the first time.
The Music Hubs form part of a national programme providing high-quality music education for all children and young people through investment in musical activities, equipment and teacher training.
Organisations have been invited to apply for the chance to set up a new National Academy for Mathematical Sciences (NAMS) to champion the value of maths and create future jobs.
Almost half of the British public believes a lack of IT and tech education throughout primary and secondary school has been a barrier to a potential career in tech, new research from BAE Systems’ Digital Intelligence has revealed.
Only one per cent of primary teachers think their students have adequate financial skills, a report from think tank Social Market Foundation (SMF) has found.
A partnership between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Football association is supporting low-income families with before-school, after-school and holiday activities for around 2,700 children each week.
Charity Speakers for Schools found that half of students in the state sector leave school without any work experience – yet this is used a third of the time to assess applications at universities.