Author: Samantha Lauren King

A sixth-former has quizzed the chairman of Lloyd’s of London on how students can boost their employability at the annual City of London Corporation education board dinner. A student at the City of London Academy, Shenice Osisioma, was selected to sit on a panel with Bruce Carnegie-Brown for a discussion on employability so delegates could […]

An independent school in Essex is working closely with a local homelessness charity to educate people on the realities of sleeping rough. Brentwood School has teamed up with Chess Homeless, a Chelmsford charity, while researching homelessness for a school play, where year 11 and sixth-form students played homeless characters situated around the school site in […]

Schools are being encouraged to invite apprentices to speak to their pupils as part of an initiative to get 10,000 people talking about apprenticeships. Run by the National Apprenticeship Service, the 10k Talks movement will match schools with apprentices past and present, with the aim of educating students on the routes available to them after […]

Students debated the gender pay gap, lowering the voting age and Brexit with MPs and councillors at Batley Girls’ High School’s third annual ‘Question Time’ event. Over 400 students and their parents attended the Q&A with panellists Tracy Brabin MP, Baroness Pinnock, Councillor Robert Light and Professor Munro Price, who were joined in the hot […]

A Merseyside school’s STEM club membership is on the rise after four of its members won a national competition by inventing an expanding flower pot. The team of four year 9 girls from Weatherhead High School took first place in the Design Museum’s annual design and enterprise challenge, Design Ventura, with their invention the Petal […]

A new three-year programme will help SEND pupils across London make their own music using state-of-the-art technology. Eye Music Trust, a visual arts charity, will tour special educational needs schools across the capital with week-long workshops that allow pupils to control movement sensors which trigger music, colour and light. The charity was awarded a £87,900 […]

The School Governors’ One-Stop Shop, a national education charity, has rebranded itself as Governors for Schools, and launched a new website and range of online resources to mark the occasion. The charity, which pairs aspiring governors and trustees with schools across England was originally a DfE pilot project, but has since become independent, placing 10,000 […]

A university scholarship programme has been launched in the UK for young players of American football. The Gridiron Grant is being run by NFL team, the Jacksonville Jaguars, in partnership with LGT Vestra US, and will offer university scholarships each year to two students involved in the sport in their community, or students participating in […]