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Crowdfunded Classrooms: Online educational crowd-funding campaigns show an incredible increase of over 200 percent since last year GoFundMe, the world’s largest social fundraising platform, today announced the ‘Go Fund My Education’ contest, the first ever GoFundMe contest to run in the UK.  The contest will launch on 4 October 2016 …

Research from Capita SIMS has revealed that over half of parents (57%) feel primary school reports are either too generic or do not contain enough information about how their child is doing. More than a third of primary school teachers (35%) agree. This is despite the fact that schools are …

Rugby union player Kyran Bracken MBE joins St Albans School as Elite Sport Development Manager and 1st XV Head Coach as the School adopts Hudl sports software to provide cutting edge analysis St Albans School is bringing world class rugby expertise and technology to its pupils, with the appointment of …

Now in its ninth year, The Junior Memory Championship™, a hugely popular nationwide memory championship for primary school children, is officially open for entries for 2017. Following on from the success of last year’s championship, which saw over 300 schools take part, the competition aims to find Britain’s rising memory …

Childnet has announced that it is extending its innovative Childnet Digital Leaders Programme to all UK schools; putting young people at the forefront of educating their peers about staying safe online. The new programme for primary schools was announced today, following a successful first year of the secondary schools programme …

Leading schools publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) is to grow its teaching list with new titles from prominent thinkers in education, including assessment expert Daisy Christodoulou, Mathematics Mastery founder Helen Drury, and teaching method guru Geoff Petty. Responding to the call for more evidence-informed approaches to teaching, the titles will …

Each year on October 15th, over 200 million people in over 100 countries take part in celebrations to mark Global Handwashing Day. Once again, Deb is heavily involved in this day of advocacy, which promotes handwashing with soap as an easy, effective, and affordable way to prevent diseases and save …

At School Minibus Leasing UK we understand the difficulty in making the right decision when it comes to procurement of your new minibus. As one of the leading suppliers of leasing products to education institutions, community groups and businesses, you can be assured that our comprehensive and pragmatic fleet solutions …

A pioneering secondary school in Birmingham is to open a new £3.5 million primary school in a bid to tackle a shortage of places in the city. Work is underway to create a primary school for 420 pupils aged four to 11 at Bournville School, which is run by Fairfax Multi-Academy …

YPO, the UK’s largest publicly owned buying organisation, has joined hands with The Roald Dahl Literary Estate to sponsor the 100th birthday celebrations of the world’s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl. Ahead of the ‘Roald Dahl 100’ birthday celebrations on 13th September 2016, YPO has announced a splendiferous opportunity for a …