OCR, a leading UK awarding body, will hold four FREE GCSE changes Expo events in Coventry, London, Manchester and Newcastle throughout June and July to provide essential knowledge and support for those teachers involved in implementing the changes to GCSEs.

As the end of term approaches and the hectic timetables are steadily replaced by the relative calm of summer, the question is, how are you going to enjoy your summer break?

The charity Computer Aid International is appealing to the UK education sector to help meet an urgent need for IT access in schools, colleges and universities in the developing world.

A fantastic range of entertaining, brain-challenging software that helps children improve their literacy and numeracy skills, is now available from Formjet.

Leading educational publisher, PDC Education Ltd, has launched www.free-eds.co.uk, an online one-stop-shop listing free, inspirational primary and secondary school teaching resources.

GOAL Graveney School in Tooting, South London, is heavily dependent on connected IT for class work and registration but its wireless network was proving unreliable. The school needed a way to manage the network so it could become a failsafe foundation for its considerable IT infrastructure.

Yamaha Music UK Ltd has launched an exciting new educational resource, Yamaha Education Friends, a place where teachers, groups and music education practitioners can connect, interact and collaborate with each other. With Yamaha's core aim of attracting more people into music-making, this new site will support teachers in doing just that, by helping them to share ideas, problems and solutions with other teaching colleagues throughout the UK.

Tollbar Business and Enterprise College is one of just 36 schools in the country to be made a member of an elite high-performing schools' club.

Velcro Ltd., the company behind the original VELCRO® brand hook and loop fastener, offers an extensive range of quick and simple solutions for the education market, ideal for teachers who wish to create a fun, interactive and safe learning environment.

In every class there are always some students who just don't get the point of the lesson. In many subjects, students find it is not too hard to make up the bits of the syllabus that they have failed to grasp.

OCR, a leading UK awarding body, will hold four FREE GCSE changes Expo events in Coventry, London, Manchester and Newcastle throughout June and July to provide essential knowledge and support for those teachers involved in implementing the changes to GCSEs.

Qwizdom handheld voting systems (www.qwizdom.co.uk) are now being used by Life Education, the UK's largest children's health education charity, (www.lifeeducation.org.uk) in schools across the country to help children make healthy choices and teach them about the effects and risks associated with drugs. To ensure impact is maximised, the charity uses handsets to engender debate, make the sessions truly interactive and ensure that even quieter children in the group can get involved.

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As well as supplying fine art materials to over 350 accounts in the UK they also distribute to over 70 countries worldwide.

It was as a result of his own experiences as a teenager that Sean Covey wrote "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teenagers."  The book became an instant best seller, and has since sold over 2 million copies worldwide.

The Perse School for Girls in Cambridge recently completed a major building project, adding a whole new wing to the Senior School.  The new construction is home to an impressive new kitchen, dining & hospitality area and washroom facilities.

The first in a new generation of fully interactive, computer-driven playgrounds, which encourage youngsters to exercise and learn, has been unveiled at a primary school near Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.

3M, the diversified technology company, announces the availability of its second generation Super Close Projection (SCP) product combining pioneering short-throw off-angle projection with a modular wall-mounting system for greater flexibility and performance at an affordable price.

Anchor Fast is a Doncaster based manufacturer of a wide range of wood and wood/concrete picnic benches,tables and chairs.It is a long established company and counts thousands of schools,leisure and sports clubs among its customers.