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In less affluent areas, children are half as likely to go on from school into university than in rich areas....
Posted on 29/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Children in Kent have shown locals their skills at growing food by selling it at a farmers' market....
Posted on 29/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Britain's gold medal athletes have offered their advice to kids hoping to follow their example and take up sport....
Posted on 28/05/2009 - [Read More...]
It is hoped the families and friends of deaf students will take advantage of a new signing course soon to run in Plymouth....
Posted on 28/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Children will be better prepared and less likely to contract sexually transmitted infections (STIs) if they are well educated when they are young....
Posted on 27/05/2009 - [Read More...]
The performance of boys and girls in science is more disparate than in any other developed nation across the globe, according to new research....
Posted on 27/05/2009 - [Read More...]
New research reveals that teachers are the most responsible workers when it comes to having a drink....
Posted on 26/05/2009 - [Read More...]
By giving teaching assistants training in the arts schools could better understand the cultural sector....
Posted on 26/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A teaching assistant who specialises in working with children with learning difficulties has been nominated for teaching assistant of the year....
Posted on 26/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A plan to spend nearly £300k on a review of special needs education in Gloucestershire has been criticised by local headteachers....
Posted on 22/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Suffering from an eye disease has not stopped a determined teaching assistant contributing to her community before beginning a teaching degree later this year....
Posted on 22/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Children with special needs should not always be sent to special schools, claims the mother of a child with Asperger's Syndrome....
Posted on 22/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A special needs teacher from a school in Gloucestershire could be given an award for her work....
Posted on 21/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A pair of grammar schools are set to launch a scheme aimed at recruiting pupils for less privileged backgrounds....
Posted on 21/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Students are being plucked out of university to fill teaching vacancies at some of Sheffield's most challenging schools....
Posted on 21/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Gloucestershire's schools will be reviewed in a bid to improve special needs education in the region....
Posted on 20/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Information technology and computer games can be useful within an educational setting, according to Play England, as long as they are used in moderation....
Posted on 19/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Physics has been highlighted as a subject that can help with an individual's career development by consultancy Laura Grant Associates....
Posted on 19/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Clip-on ties are becoming the standard at many schools in the UK due to concerns surrounding their traditional, knotted counterparts....
Posted on 18/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Teaching assistants who work with pupils with special needs should receive additional remuneration, according to public services union Unison....
Posted on 18/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A school initiative to get children more involved in growing their own produce has been praised by a Chester special needs co-ordinator....
Posted on 18/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A free conference will take place in Eaglescliffe next month for parents and carers of children with special educational needs....
Posted on 15/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A teaching assistant who recovered from breast cancer has helped organise a charity ball which raised £16,000 for the hospital where she was treated....
Posted on 15/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Pupils with special needs can respond well to demonstrations, particularly when learning science, an educational specialist has claimed....
Posted on 15/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Special needs pupils in Bristol are now enjoying the use of a new £1.5 million centre at Brislington Enterprise College....
Posted on 14/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A Hartlepool teaching assistant is giving up her free time this summer and paying for her own trip to Thailand to work with children orphaned by aids....
Posted on 14/05/2009 - [Read More...]
The number of children with special needs has increased....
Posted on 08/05/2009 - [Read More...]
English schools have enjoyed a rise in the number of teachers in the last year....
Posted on 08/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A group of dinner ladies are training to become teaching assistants....
Posted on 08/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Guide Dogs for the Blind will benefit from a teaching assistant climbing a mountain....
Posted on 07/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A Huddersfield teaching assistant is in contention for the Teaching Assistant of the Year award....
Posted on 07/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Parents in Basford are being encouraged to attend a work shop on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder....
Posted on 07/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Christine Blower has been elected general secretary of the National Union of Teachers....
Posted on 06/05/2009 - [Read More...]
The future of two special needs schools in Derby is to be considered....
Posted on 06/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A school in Nottinghamshire has been praised by Ofsted....
Posted on 06/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Schools must listen to parents, says prime minister Gordon Brown....
Posted on 06/05/2009 - [Read More...]
A school in Bristol has been praised for its high standards by Ofsted. ...
Posted on 05/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Parents of children at school in Hull are to receive a clear message on sick notes from the local council....
Posted on 05/05/2009 - [Read More...]
As part of our ongoing commitment to the professional development of our registered candidates, we are pleased to publish the following list of free Teaching Personnel training events that will be running across the country over the next two ...
Posted on 05/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Those in teaching jobs have been urged to take advantage of childcare benefits....
Posted on 01/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Parents at a Northamptonshire school are to have the opportunity to speak to school staff at the supermarket....
Posted on 01/05/2009 - [Read More...]
Staff who are required to teach outside their own subject should remain calm and focus on what they know, it has been noted....
Posted on 01/05/2009 - [Read More...]