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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 …

With less than two weeks to go until the arrival of Shakespeare Week (16 – 22 March 2015), museums, libraries, galleries and heritage attractions across the UK are getting ready to welcome primary schools and families for a whole host of free Shakespeare-inspired events and activities. Organised by the Shakespeare …

The Education Show 2015 returns to the NEC, Birmingham on 19 to 21 March and is once again set to address the needs of education professionals across the country, this year with an increased focus on technology. With technology so high on the agenda in schools, the ‘Learning through Technology’ …

Ten talented students from four UK schools are preparing for the trip of a lifetime to China after winning the final of the HSBC/British Council Mandarin Chinese Speaking Competition – which was held at the British Museum on Monday 9 February. As part of their prize, the winners will walk …

Scientists, working with The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Fair, have managed to get their hands on the Crown Jewels – by growing their own from ingredients found in common household items such as drain un-blocker, sandpaper and antiseptic cream. The experiment, created to inspire the next generation …

The finalists have been announced for the 2015 ERA Awards, to be held at the National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham, on the evening of Friday 20th March. The Education Resources Awards (ERA) are now in their 16th year and are firmly established as the premier annual event to celebrate outstanding …

Two leading construction bodies are calling on parents, teachers and careers advisers to encourage their children and pupils to pursue a career in the UK construction industry. This comes as CITB predicts that over 220,000 workers will be needed by the industry by 2019 in order to meet demand. CITB’s …