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A caterer, an actress and an accountant were among professionals going back to their old school to inspire the current generation to academic success and career confidence under a scheme setting up ‘old school tie’ networks in state schools and colleges. Sixteen alumni returned to Parliament Hill School, Highgate Road, …

This year Wrong Trousers Day celebrates the charity’s 12th year of bringing this national fundraising event to support sick children in hospitals and hospices! Anyone can join in, just donate £1 for your chance to wear your weirdest and wackiest trousers for a day. We want to see everyone getting …

Following its success in 2015, Futures is returning to Bett 2016, providing inspirational ed-tech start-ups with the opportunity to showcase their products and services to more than 35,000 visitors. As the new purpose-built home for the world’s most inspiring ed-tech start-ups, Futures was launched at Bett 2015, in collaboration with …

Randstad Education has announced the content of the very first free to attend CPD conference for supply teachers. The CPD conference will be made up of a Keynote session followed by sessions which are chosen by the delegates. There are 3 parallel workshops giving delegates the opportunity to select one …

Apps for Good, the free education programme dedicated to closing the digital skills gap, has announced 18 teams of students as finalists in the Apps for Good Awards, to be held on 18 June at the Barbican in London. The national Apps for Good Awards celebrate the next generation of …

Only 104 secondary school headteachers in the UK are from Black Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds in the UK– that’s just 3%. With some schools seeing 70% of students from a BME background, this means that the staff makeup simply does not reflect the student body. A new, government-backed scheme aims …

Educational Software Company, 2Simple, are teaming up with children’s author, Jonny Zucker to run their first ever Serial Mash Writers Competition for users of the online library. With the chance of winning prizes, the competition starts by asking children to read the first chapter of two new KS2 Serial Mash …

Children aged 5-11 have been invited by children’s e-book publisher, Fiction Express for Schools to enter a short story competition in celebration of the company’s fourth birthday.   The competition, launched on 1st May in association with Primary Times, will run until 7th June. The children are required to write …

A Birmingham year 7 has landed a dream family holiday worth £600 after winning a regional literacy skills competition for schools. Kirsty Duggins, age 12, of Smith’s Wood Sports College, Solihull, came out on top in a public vote on the website of competition organisers Everywhere Travel  for her dream …

For younger students, there is the VEX IQ Challenge which is specifically for KS2 and KS3. The IQ Challenge is based on its big brother but uses smaller robots made with the tool-less VEX IQ system. Just like in the VEX Robotics Competition, the robots need to be able to …