education
27 Feb 2023
‘Education Behind Bars – All Children Should Go To Prison’
Shrewsbury Prison puts ‘Education Behind Bars’ with the launch of a newly created National Educational Programme for Schools, Colleges, and Universities. Education Behind Bars is being delivered nationally across decommissioned prisons launching at Shrewsbury Prison in Shropshire and Shepton Mallet Prison in Somerset, with more locations...
13 Dec 2022
A cash crisis in schools nationally means thousands of children are being denied the chance to take part in life-changing outdoor education.
Shropshire-based environmental education charity, the Field Studies Council, was inundated with applications for a £60,000 pot of money to help schools pay for trips, and believes outdoor education will suffer as head teachers battle to balance dwindling...
06 Dec 2022
A Shropshire school has recruited a new minibus driver with an exciting past and a name you will recognise - James Bond.
Rumour has it, the latest recruit to the Oswestry School minibus driving team, James Bond, might once have gone by the code name 007 but in true former spy form, he is keeping tight lipped and denies working at any other job prior to his retirement than being a journalist....
21 Nov 2022
A Shropshire building contractor has been highly commended for its construction of net zero carbon school facilities at an awards ceremony celebrating the top property projects in the West Midlands.
Pave Aways Building Contractors received the award for its work at Harlescott Junior School in the West Midlands Property Awards at Birmingham’s Metropole Hotel on November 17.
The £9.1m project...
28 Oct 2022
An online treasure trove of videos and teaching resources is helping schools to support students with their outdoor learning and to enhance fieldwork knowledge and skills.
The Field Studies Council, which has its charity headquarters at Montford Bridge near Shrewsbury, has launched its new Digital Hub to support secondary school teachers and students with the fieldwork element of geography and...
18 Aug 2022
Businesses are being urged to sign up to a network dedicated to supporting the development of future talent across the Marches.
The Marches Local Enterprise Partnership and the Marches Careers Hub want to recruit more volunteer enterprise advisers to give schools and colleges across the region a vital insight into the world of work.
Enterprise advisers take on a strategic role, working with staff...
06 Jun 2022
A rising star at a Shropshire financial services group has become one of the youngest people across the country to pass his first professional exams.
Twenty-year-old Piers Hindhaugh, of Q Financial Services, has successfully completed his R01 qualification – and is now half way to gaining a diploma in regulated financial planning.
Piers, from Pontesbury, joined the administrative department at Q’...
04 Feb 2021
Shropshire’s Ellesmere College is celebrating being named the 17th best school for sport in the whole of the UK.
The prestigious honour was revealed in the latest annual ranking of the top 200 sporting schools across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by School Sport Magazine.
The scale of the achievement in this latest table, covering 2020, is huge with the nearest geographical...
03 Feb 2021
A building contractor has handed 50 new tablets to schools in Shropshire, Mid Wales and Cheshire to ensure that children without access to quality technology can learn at home during lockdown.
Pave Aways has given 10 Samsung Galaxy tablets each to Newtown and Welshpool High Schools in Mid Wales, the Telford Langley School, Shrewsbury Academy and Blacon High School in Chester in an £11,500 gesture...
19 Oct 2019
Are you interested in or working in the area of children's literacy and reading for pleasure?
Do you want to share ideas on how to help children develop a life-long love of books?
Do you want to hear from nationally renowned educators and specialists in children's books, literacy and education?
Then come to this conference, right in the heart of Shropshire, to share strategies to empower, unlock...
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