Author: Billy Camden

A 17-year-old student’s success in a national contest to identify young people with leadership skills has boosted her school’s coffers by £1,000. Yifei Painter, in year 12 at Nottingham Girls’ High School, beat off competition from more than 2,000 students to be crowned champion in the TARGETjobs National Schools’ Challenge 2015. Organised with leading employers, […]

A campaign to attract more graduates to become religious education (RE) teachers has been launched. The Beyond the Ordinary campaign, created by the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (REC), highlights the £9,000 bursaries available to cover training costs for the subject. A three-minute video forms the campaign’s centrepiece and focuses on the experiences […]

The further education group 157 has joined forces with the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) to raise awareness of the options for post-16 learners. Using feedback from learners in colleges and independent training providers, the groups have released a video animation, “What are you going to choose”, to let young people know the […]

Two scholarships are up for grabs for a team of students from Clyst Valley Community College in Exeter who were crowned winners of a national STEM competition. In the final of the Land Rover 4X4 in Schools Technology Challenge, the Cystalians, a team of 14 to 16-year-olds from Clyst Valley, competed against 25 other teams […]

A Cornwall teacher is searching for 20 UK teachers to take to Uganda this summer for three weeks of in-school coaching. Lizzie Waddling, an expressive arts and English teacher at Falmouth School, will lead the team in delivering teaching ideas and strategies to Ugandan teachers and pupils. It will deliver in-school coaching alongside a five-day […]

Matthew Slater has taken over as the new headteacher of King Solomon High School in Essex. Formerly head of Drapers’ Academy – where his efforts to turn it around to “one of the fastest improving” schools in the country were noted by David Cameron in parliament – Mr Slater says his past experiences in Jewish […]

Success in the Millennium Point Young Innovator Prize has given a St Alban’s Academy student a place on a sponsored undergraduate degree at Birmingham City University. Malik Sheryar-Karamat competed against three other finalists who all had to make a presentation focusing on science, technology and engineering with themes including nanotechnology, robotics, sustainability, future energy, feeding […]