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NEWS

Conservative manifesto outlines education policies

The Conservative party has released its manifesto, which includes a pledge to increase school funding by £14 billion, promising that "those areas historically underfunded receiving the greatest increase"......read more

Programme for Welsh-medium primary teachers who want to teach secondary

The pilot programme aims to increase the number of teachers who can teach in Welsh at secondary level, without reducing teaching capacity in primary schools......read more

School flu vaccination programme resumes following supply delay

Primary school clinics will be rescheduled as soon as possible and children in high risk groups are asked to visit their GP if their school session has been delayed.....read more

University staff strike over pensions, pay and conditions

University and Colleges Union has warned that if universities fail to make improved offers then further waves of strike action could follow in the new year.....read more

Derbyshire schools start Food for Life programme

Soil Association’s Food for Life Served Here programme has been working with school caterers across Derbyshire, supporting them to provide healthy school meals.....read more

SPONSORS

Thinkers in Education

Help your students develop medical skills and knowledge in THE PANDEMIC!  Save 15% and expose 72-180 students a day to scintillating science by hosting the workshop based on the Ebola outbreak of 2014.  Participants will reconstruct the spread of the virus, be trained to conduct an effective ELISA test, identify those infected and try to save lives using blood transfusions.....read more

SICO Europe Ltd

For over 50 years, SICO Europe have supplied innovative mobile folding furniture solutions to educational establishments. SICO products maximise space and time, to transform spaces into versatile, multi-purpose environments. Manufactured in the UK, every product is easy to operate and designed to take up minimal space in storage.....read more

LifeSkills

Free employability CPD available from LifeSkills. Sign up to a free CPD course on embedding employability in the curriculum, by LifeSkills created with Barclays and tes. If you are the Careers Lead or supporting a colleague responsible for the careers programme, this course gives you the tools you need to enhance your employability skills provision.....read more

Gratnells

The Knights Templar School in Baldock opened its doors in September 1939 with 182 local and evacuee children on the roll. Earlier this year, Knights Templar took delivery of a range of trolleys, complete with storage trays, from Gratnells - the leading UK manufacturer of school storage equipment.....read more

Selectaglaze

Stansted Airport College is the first on-site education facility of its kind at a major UK airport. As it was new-build, high performance primary double glazing was installed, but unfortunately, it did not meet the acoustic requirements on its own, so Selectaglaze secondary glazing was installed to improve performance.....read more

EVENTS

22-25 January, ExCeL, London

The 36th edition of Bett takes place on 22-25 January 2020 at the ExCeL London - and with an expanded offer of show features and content, it is an unmissable date in the global EdTech event calendar! Find out what's new at Bett 2020 and register now.

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