Education

Offering to spice up the examination outcomes of pupils affected by the crumbling concrete disaster wouldn’t be honest on others, the top of England’s examination regulator has mentioned. Some mother and father at St Leonard’s Catholic School in Durham, the place education has been disrupted by Raac, known as for his or her kids’s marks […] More

Kerry-Anne Finn and Kerry-Anne spent 84 days strolling the perimeter of Wales Thirteen-year-old Finn and his mum Kerry-Anne have simply accomplished the journey of a lifetime, strolling virtually 1,200 miles across the perimeter of Wales. The pair spent 84 days carrying every part they wanted to camp on their backs, typically in driving rain, earlier […] More

Daily News The proportion of Welsh 18-year-olds making use of to school has fallen and is the bottom within the UK People in Wales “need to be worried” in regards to the variety of younger individuals making use of to larger schooling, in accordance with college bosses. The variety of 18-year-olds from Wales making use […] More

The adoptive mother and father of a 16-year-old with particular wants are pleading with their native authority to permit him to go to an out-of-area college which they consider might assist him. The Shropshire couple stated their son has been out of faculty for 18 months due to his difficult and typically violent behaviour. They […] More

Les Sutton Anna says her dad Les’s positivity was invaluable when she bought her A-level outcomes Results day is sort of right here for A-level, BTec, T-level and GCSE college students. It could be disturbing, so how can dad and mom and carers assist their youngsters by means of it? “I am quite impulsive, I […] More

Daily News Lucy Cohen needs to see extra range within the accounting career A businesswoman from Cardiff who runs an accounting agency with a multimillion pound turnover says she needs to “smash glass ceilings and break down barriers” for different folks under-represented within the career. Lucy Cohen co-founded Mazuma, a subscription-based accountancy firm, together with […] More

The UK authorities are providing a money incentive of £600 to those that develop into childminders (or £1,200 for these becoming a member of through an company). The Department for Education does not but have figures for the numbers who’ve signed up, however says childcare staffing rose by 4% throughout 2023 as an entire, exterior. […] More

T-levels, launched in 2020, are vocational {qualifications} geared toward 16-to-19-year-olds, exterior in England, which focus extra on sensible topics than tutorial ones. Each course lasts two years and is roughly equal to 3 A-levels. The qualification features a combination of each classroom studying and on-the-job expertise, with a piece placement of not less than 315 […] More

Daily News The day earlier than, official statistics had predicted that the variety of kids in English state nurseries and first faculties, which was already in decline, would fall by an extra 4.5% over the following 4 years. Schools are given cash per pupil, so for these like St Peter’s Community Primary School – which […] More

In 2020, there have been greater than 12,000 vocational {qualifications} in any respect ranges, provided by greater than 150 awarding our bodies, in keeping with Ofqual, which oversees {qualifications} in England. Plans by former Conservative governments to streamline post-16 schooling had meant many BTecs and different Level 3 programs had been as a result of […] More

Getty Images Experts say behaviour issues are sometimes “masking an underlying unmet need” Figures launched final week confirmed the very best yearly numbers of suspensions and exclusions of faculty pupils in England. Is worsening behaviour actually the one clarification? Sara, not her actual identify, says she first seen her son’s irritability and issue socialising whereas […] More

Getty Images The authorities has introduced particulars of the way it will change tax on personal college charges. Labour says it’s eradicating the present exemption from worth added tax (VAT) to fund 6,500 new academics in England. When will VAT be added to non-public college charges? VAT at the usual price of 20% shall be […] More