Two major investments that will revolutionise the nation's diet have been confirmed. Wolverhampton City Primary Care Trust and The Worshipful Company of Fruiterers are supporting the start in England of the Food Dudes Healthy Eating programme, which has been proven to increase consumption of fruit and vegetables in children.

There has been an 86% increase in the number of teachers suspended on full pay in the UK over claims of pupil mistreatment. Teachers' unions say there has been a rise in false allegations.

The education watchdog Ofsted has been criticised over plans to spend more than £400,000 a year of taxpayers' money on public relations staff. The organisation, is advertising 12 posts with salaries ranging from £64,684 to £22,405.

Professor Michael Reiss has quit as director of education at the Royal Society following controversy over his comments on creationism. Prof Reiss said creationism should be discussed in science lessons if pupils raised the issue. He was criticised by other scientists - though misquoted as saying creationism should be "taught" in science classes.

A charity is giving free poetry books to thousands of reception class pupils in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, to inspire a love of reading.

A sex education booklet aimed at six-year-olds has been published by a UK sexual health charity.

There has been an improvement in the proportion of little children in England achieving the official "early learning goals", statistics show.

A generation of children has suffered from short-term policy making, says a children's charity.

Almost half of England's schools are not teaching mathematics well enough, putting too much emphasis on "teaching to the test", inspectors have said.

Women are taking too few of the top jobs in teaching in England and Wales, an annual recruitment survey says.

Anxious bankers fearing their jobs are under threat are to be targeted as potential recruits by England's teacher training agency.

All primary school pupils are going to be offered free school meals in a pilot scheme in two areas of England.

Ministers have named the first three schools in England to get up to £1m extra as part of partnership deals to improve their pupils' exam results.

Rules on the rights of England's teachers to time out of the classroom to plan lessons are to be strengthened.

Primary school children's understanding of science is harmed by the way England's testing system holds schools and teachers to account, reports say.

As part of National School Environments Week, Kinnarps UK has donated a selection of items from its Educational Furniture range for a ‘makeover' of Southfield Primary School in the London Borough of Ealing. The makeover is one of a series of initiatives organised by the British Council for School Environments (BCSE) and is a pilot scheme for Ealing's Primary Capital Programme.

Blu-Tack®, the original re-usable adhesive from Bostik, is turning GREEN, for a special Halloween promotion.

With the October half term on our doorstep, now's the time to ensure that your home is fully capable to withstand the ever increasing UK weather disasters.

Today university students need a survival guide to achieve harmony in their studies, budgeting and life.

Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd has launched its next generation high-speed colour production print system. For sophisticated production print applications the bizhub PRO C6501e is designed as a complete document production system with optional on-line print finishing units. It is capable of heavy-duty production of up to 300,000 A4 sheets per month with an output capacity of up to 3,900 pages per hour (65 pages per minute) in both full colour and black-and-white.

Certain to become an integral part of classrooms across the UK, BrainPOP, the animated curriculum-based content provider, has launched  in the UK just in time for the new school year.

According to the Home Office Report "Keeping Crime Down" there are five main causes of youth crime, ranging from a troubled home life to mental illness.

Over 100 delegates from the school meals sector took time out from their demanding schedules to take part in the Premier Foods Education Team's recent ‘Commitment to School Meals' national events, which offered an opportunity to participate in a day of information sharing and learning.

Railex Systems recently and proudly celebrated its centenary in fine style with a hugely successful event at the smart London showroom near Finsbury Square.

A survey by learndirect found that around 20% of people admitted that their lack of numeracy skills had lost their employers money.

Those who champion faith schools - such as like Tony Blair and David Cameron - cite academic success and the beneficial effects of a positive ethos they generate. On the other side of the divide, sceptics argue that separating children on the basis of religion can cause an entrenchment of disparate beliefs that multiculturalism aims to eradicate. What cannot be doubted is that this emotive and polarising subject is never far from the headlines, and faith schools have again pushed themselves to the fore of the educational agenda in recent weeks.

The government has committed unprecedented levels of investment to improve all areas of education. From major new-build projects to refits and refurbishments the level and scope of work to be achieved is huge. BSF has now moved on to the next step; looking at developing and maximising returns as well as ensuring the industry is learning from the challenges and successes encountered so far. The PCP and Higher/Further Education programmes are just starting out; determining expected levels of new build, and time-scales for delivery.

Victor's Synergy ‘drop-ins', the working component units for foodservice counters, now boast greater energy efficiency and conform to the more exacting standards of EN ISO 23953-2, providing M1 cabinet class in climate class 3 environment of 25°C in 60% humidity.  Both refrigerated and heated models deliver energy efficient benefits, by reducing energy usage.

The £50 million redevelopment programme at Canterbury College is one of the largest projects of its kind in the UK and used Metsec's site fixed Steel Framing System (SFS) for infill walling when constructing the external envelope of the building.

The Friary School in Lichfield have again chosen Relcross to supply the washroom products for refurbishing the students' toilets. They embarked on a project to re-furbish their washrooms three years ago.

One significant positive likely to emerge from the financial turmoil of recent months is that forward-thinking companies and public sector bodies will be looking for new ways to improve their future performance and reduce financial risk in uncertain times. Couple this with the need to review strategies for growth through the intervening upswing, then high on the agenda for these organisations should be their policy for acquiring and financing additional working space. Offsite construction offers solutions that neatly address both risk reduction and strategic realignment in a single package.

Historically, school toilets with their hard quarry tiled floors, ceramic wall tiles and fixtures of large lumps of white porcelain were a bit of a nightmare.  Lots of water splashed about, sinks blocked up with toilet paper, hints of vandalism and often places chosen by bullies to ply their nasty trade.  Ok, it was the late 50s when I last experienced the school toilet environment, but if has taken a while to make changes and even now I sometimes visit refurbishment projects where it is like taking a step into the past.

Schools and LEAs can now receive BREEAM Schools assessments as part of window installation programmes, thanks to public sector specialist WHS Halo System 10.

Advanced Hygienic Cladding's maintenance-free rigid PVC wall cladding system has been installed throughout the lavishly equipped kitchen at Holy Trinity Primary School in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

CFS Carpets has supplied textile and fibre bonded carpets and carpet tiles into hundreds of educational establishments for over 25 years. Ranges such as Chinook and New Typhoon broad and narrow rib fibre bonded products have become firm favourites with contractors and specifiers throughout the UK.

Specialist acoustic flooring, wood effect sheet vinyl and decorative, low maintenance heavy duty and safety sheet vinyl flooring from Polyflor have been installed throughout Ty Coryton, a new residential school for children with severe autism at Whitchurch, Cardiff.

One of Bedfordshire's major middle schools is now benefiting from purpose-designed personal storage systems from Link Lockers.  The installation completed at Holywell School in Cranfield has seen some 565 individual locker units fitted - with significant benefits in terms of the efficient storage of pupils' property and also compliance with appropriate regulations.

UK market leader in folding tables, Gopak, has made it even easier to transport its four and five foot round tables with a new and improved trolley. With a host of practical additions, its smaller frame means it can be taken with ease through any standard width door frame.

Each year 200 million milk and juice cartons are used in England's primary schools, while secondary school pupils and staff get through more than 35 million.  Now, thanks to a new initiative launched by Tetra Pak and the carton industry under ACE UK (Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment), these paper-based cartons can be recycled. 

CEM Systems, a leading access control brand of Tyco International, today announced the release of its innovative S610f fingerprint card reader.

Designed by Wincer Kievenaar Chartered Architects, the St Joseph's College Primary Centre in Ipswich is a state-of-the-art infants and junior school characterised by the use of bold organic forms, natural light and bright colours designed to inspire its young pupils.

As education providers it is all too easy to think of teaching as a one-way street. You train to be a teacher and then you are the one imparting the knowledge to your students. Apart from the odd course to brush up on ICT, many teachers would not expect to continue training throughout their careers.

Treating Compelling Learning is a new one-day programme for teachers to help them manage the behaviour of their pupils.

Continuing Professional Development Mark Ltd. has launched the CPD Mark  - devised to improve the quality of CPD within the profession and to ensure the best return on schools' investment in staffing - a minimum of 75% of most school's overall budget.

City of Sunderland College has taken another step forward in developing staff expertise and expanding courses, by updating its own vocational knowledge.

With the average teacher working around 50 hours per week, finding time to get to grips with interactive technologies or develop new skills may seem like a challenge. Recognising the need for a solution that corresponds with the teacher's busy workload however, educational technology specialist, Promethean, now offers a variety of flexible online training opportunities.

All 11-year-olds in England will be able to receive a free cookbook under a programme aimed at tackling obesity.

This book is a simple and practical guide to help everyone who does any kind of writing. It combines a thorough A-Z checklist of the mistakes that often crop up in all aspects of written English with ready and reliable guidance on today's usage difficulties and how to be up to date with all the latest controversies, pitfalls and oddities of our language.

Never before have students had so many choices in terms of courses, qualifications and career opportunities. Yet at the same time, the challenges are huge and many young people are unaware of the ways of the workplace or the qualities and attributes that will make them employable, beyond qualifications.