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Jeans for Genes Day is celebrating its 20th year of fundraising for children with genetic disorders on Friday 18th September 2015, and this year a host of celebrities are backing the campaign including Kate Moss, Amanda Holden and SpongeBob Square Pants. Jeans for Genes Day is a fun and educational …

The winners of the Let Teachers SHINE competition, run by the education charity SHINE, were announced at an awards presentation held last week at the Capita SIMS Annual Conference. Teachers across the country had the opportunity to win a grant worth up to £15,000 to develop their idea to support …

Following its success in 2015, Futures is returning to Bett 2016, providing inspirational ed-tech start-ups with the opportunity to showcase their products and services to more than 35,000 visitors. As the new purpose-built home for the world’s most inspiring ed-tech start-ups, Futures was launched at Bett 2015, in collaboration with …

Randstad Education has announced the content of the very first free to attend CPD conference for supply teachers. The CPD conference will be made up of a Keynote session followed by sessions which are chosen by the delegates. There are 3 parallel workshops giving delegates the opportunity to select one …

Apps for Good, the free education programme dedicated to closing the digital skills gap, has announced 18 teams of students as finalists in the Apps for Good Awards, to be held on 18 June at the Barbican in London. The national Apps for Good Awards celebrate the next generation of …

Only 104 secondary school headteachers in the UK are from Black Minority Ethnic (BME) backgrounds in the UK– that’s just 3%. With some schools seeing 70% of students from a BME background, this means that the staff makeup simply does not reflect the student body. A new, government-backed scheme aims …

The City of London Corporation has opened entries for this year’s Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards, the UK’s oldest and most distinguished Corporate Community Engagement awards. This year, the City of London Corporation is particularly interested in hearing about the education Corporate Community Engagement programmes of businesses and with four out …

Save the Children is calling on UK schools to ‘build a better world’ with the launch of an exciting new fundraising initiative – ‘Den Day’.  Launching on 29th May and running until 6th June, Save the Children’s Den Day invites schools to pick a date and hold a day of …

Naace, the community of educators, technologists and policy makers has announced a focus on raising achievement through technology at its annual Naace Strategic Conference. The conference, which will be held at East Midlands Conference Centre on March 25th and 26th, comes a month after the Select Committee on Digital Skills called …

This year’s National Apprenticeship Week (9 to 13 March) marks the two-year anniversary of the official launch of the National School Apprenticeships Programme (NSA). The programme was originally piloted in the North West with 4 schools but due to its success, the programme was launched nationally in September 2013 and …