Leading education technology provider Frog has announced it will be changing its name from Frogtrade to Frog Education. The new name, the first since the company began in 1999, will seek to better reflect Frog’s 15 year evolution from technology provider to education solutions specialist. The name change will be …

Students in the UK have just one month left to enter a competition to design a classroom of the future and win £2,500 worth of technology for their school including an LED TV, camera, laptop and much, much more. Children 16 and under are competing with pupils across the UK …

Senior teachers say succession planning is now more important to schools than it was in 2009, according to the latest research from Randstad Education, the specialist recruiter.  In a poll of senior teachers undertaken by Randstad Education, 43 per cent of respondents said succession planning was now more important than …

The blind chief executive of a national charity is appealing to teachers to help get the message across to children that smoking causes sight loss. Tony Rucinski’s views underpin a new resource pack being launched by the Macular Society, to help teachers explain the link between smoking and blindness. According …

KS3 music teachers across the capital will be taking part in the first cohort of The UK Association for Music Education (Music Mark)’s new CPD programme later today (13th June). Peer-to-Peer offers teachers the chance to learn how to improve their teaching from an expert panel of colleagues who’ve demonstrated …

Over 100,000 children from over 600 schools across the UK took to the streets yesterday as part of the Giant Walking Bus, an initiative coordinated by Brake, the road safety charity, and webuyanycar.com. The event aimed to give children a voice, calling on drivers and government to make their streets safer …

Apps for Good has today announced the finalists in the national Apps for Good Awards 2014, designed to inspire students and discover the country’s leading young digital entrepreneurs. The Awards will be held on 23 June 2014 at the Barbican, London. The national Apps for Good Awards celebrate the next …

‘The war to end all wars’ is the subject of a new free project being launched this week by creative curriculum writers, Cornerstones Education. Fallen Fields has been designed to help school children study World War One in its centenary year. Primary schools across the country – whether they already …

Over 200 people who could read and write, including one guest who learnt to read at 25, attended and supported a charity ball at the May Fair Hotel on Monday 2nd June. Over £170,000 was raised in total in aid of Beanstalk, an exceptional children’s literacy charity. The event was sponsored …

Online vocabulary learning application, Vocab Express, has been announced as a partner, alongside Speak to the Future and Oxford University Press for the Language Show Live’s Strictly 1000 Words competition. The new competition is designed to challenge school, college and university students and language enthusiasts up and down the country …