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On Monday 13th October at 10h30, I’ll be kicking off a new series of webinars hosted by Education Today magazine, in which we will be talking to leaders and opinion formers from across the UK education spectrum. In Monday’s inaugural session, former deputy head Graham Cooper, who now heads up …

Big Yellow Friday, the national awareness and fundraising day for Children’s Liver Disease Foundation (CLDF) has proved increasingly popular with schools over the past couple of years. Now the charity has put together a special online toolkit to make it as easy as possible for schools to join in the …

The School Stickers’ ‘MY Sticker’ competition launched this week giving pupils the opportunity to highlight issues close to their hearts. The competition invites pupils to design a sticker promoting a local cause, campaign or issue they feel passionately about whether it be anti-smoking, drugs, bullying, racism or pro healthy eating or …

The British Museum has developed a unique programme to assist secondary school teachers in delivering the new  financial education requirements as part of the revised national curriculum. The newly developed Citi Money Gallery secondary education programme delivers financial education in a historical context through objects in the collection, emphasising the …

Education specialists Pearson are currently recruiting for a variety of Assessment roles for BTEC in all sectors during 2014/15 (including roles in the medium of Welsh). Part time Regional/Online Closing date 31/10/14 Through becoming an Assessment Associate, you will gain a greater understanding of the range of abilities and differing approaches of …

A Cheshire school pupil has qualified for the Grand Final of the national Junior Language Challenge, which will take place at the Language Show in London on Friday 18 October 2014. Jennifer Stairmand attends The Firs School in Chester and began the language challenge by learning Italian online, followed by …

A new English project is supporting the needs of teachers to develop skills for teaching young learners with English as an additional language (EAL) in UK schools. The EAL Nexus project, funded by the European Integration Fund, the British Council and The Bell Foundation, has launched a new website to …

Recently, Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, said that “leadership is absolutely critical” in improving behaviour. Thinking alike, and working with Contact Group, providers of best in class communication and data services, former assistant head and director of Sixth Domain, John Roberts has created a …

Gareth Thomas, the 100-times capped former Wales skipper, has announced his support for this year’s Anti-Bullying Week, organised by the Anti-Bullying Alliance, which takes place on 17-21 November. Gareth, who leads the Balls to Bullying campaign which launched earlier this year, visits schools all over the country to work with …

The Sex Education Forum, hosted by leading children’s charity the National Children’s Bureau, today welcomes the addition of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV and AIDS to the revised draft National Curriculum for science (Key Stage 4) in secondary schools. This will help make it clear to schools that every …