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Teachers in schools across Dudley and Sandwell have been allocated a school  just across the Worcestershire county boundary as their centre of excellence. Haybridge High School at Hagley has been named as two Centres of Excellence for teaching training in Worcestershire. But while the other one, Prince Henry School at Evesham, will cover schools across south Worcestershire and Wyre Forest, Haybridge will support Black Country schools. Haybridge High School and Sixth Form is part of The...

Learning at The Mount School York continues beyond the classroom, even in virtual times! Mount girls have plenty of opportunities to improve their personal development, learn new skills, challenge themselves, build confidence and have fun through the many co-curricular opportunities on offer. An interesting feature of The Mount’s activities is how many of them are student-led.  "Girls have the option to establish clubs and societies when there is something that interests them ...

The struggle continues . . . may we be inspired Spread the love So who are some of the unheralded and unsung local heroes who did mightily for us here in Antigua and Barbuda? Who are they that distinguished themselves in the struggle for a better Antigua and Barbuda? The list is as long as it is varied, and we will only be able to scratch the surface in recounting their wondrous deeds. But here is just a sampling. Mind you, some of the names that we are about to call cannot be found in any hist...

THE principal of Furness College will go head to head with the MP for Barrow and Furness to test their skills and knowledge as part of National Apprenticeship Week. Professor Andrew Wren will take on Simon Fell in the college’s annual Principal v MP Challenge on Friday. This year it will take the form of a virtual online quiz featuring questions from the curriculum and on the topic of apprenticeships. Professor Wren said a series of questions have been gathered from all areas of the c...

10 February 2021 After successfully finishing internship at the Department for Transport (DfT), I knew I wanted to work within the Civil Service. I made it my quest to work there and be one of the 16% of autistic people in full-time employment. After the internship I returned to Sixth Form, where it did not go unnoticed how much I had grown in confidence and determination. The following year I was invited back to the programme to give a speech to the 2019 interns, at the opening ceremony of the...

Avon Valley. Inset: MP for Devizes, Danny Kruger "SOMEONE has blundered, and I expect an investigation to prevent anything similar happening in future." Thats the response from MP Danny Kruger to the news that Avon Valley sixth form is likely to close at the end of this academic year. The closure was announced last month, with the college - based in Durrington - citing "unacceptable financial challenges", and that enrolment figures are "unsustainable". Mr Kruger says he has been contacte...

After successfully finishing internship at the Department for Transport (DfT), I knew I wanted to work within the Civil Service. I made it my quest to...

Highbridge’s King Alfred School Academy has announced that is getting a new Acting Principal. With Principal Nathan Jenkins becoming Head of School Improvement at The Priory Learning Trust, Vice Principal Dan Milford will take on the role of Acting Principal until January 2022 when a permanent Principal will be appointed. The King Alfred School Academy (TKASA) says it has had a tremendous few years and is soaring in exam results, curriculum provision, pastoral support and with its high-perfor...

Winchester College is to overturn centuries of tradition by taking girl pupils for the first time, it announced today. The 700-pupil private school is to admit girls and day pupils into the Sixth Form as part of what it calls a wider modernisation agenda. Alumni, parents, staff, boys and future parents will be consulted on how best to implement the changes. The school, where fees are around £42,000 a year, today announced ‘Winchester College in the 21st Century’, a new vision and s...

The modernisation agenda aims to have the first girl boarders admitted in 2024 9 February 2021 • 7:28pm The issue of whether to teach girls at the £41,709-a-year school has been a matter of debate for over a hundred years   Credit: Christopher Pillitz/Corbis Historical  It is one of the country’s last bastions of all boys’ boarding schools. But Winchester College is to admit girls and day pupils for the first time in its 640-year history, as part of a “modernisation agenda”. From ...