NEU makes calls to replace Ofsted
The National Education Union (NEU) has launched an accountability campaign and national petition calling for the replacement of Ofsted with a new approach to school and college evaluation which is supportive, effective and fair. The Replace Ofsted: Let Teachers Teach campaign was launched at the NEU’s annual conference this week following the union’s dismissal of […]
Scottish colleges launch funded online courses for social care
Scotland’s colleges have responded to the recruitment crisis facing social care by launching Introduction to a Career in Social Care – an online course designed to bring more trained candidates into this area of work at a time when the country faces a social care crisis caused by the skills gap and worsened by the […]
The University of Worcester bolsters support for student nurses through engagement analytics
The University of Worcester has partnered with Solutionpath to support the wellbeing of its pre-registration nursing associate students and midwives. The University of Worcester has been educating nurses and midwives for more than 25 years, with more than 1,200 students currently studying across the University’s Nursing, Midwifery and Nursing Associate programmes. In July 2020, Worcester […]
DDoS becoming more complex, with schools at risk too
Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks decreased slightly in 2021 but are becoming larger and more complex in nature, new analysis from F5 has found. Data collected from F5 Silverline – a cloud-based managed services platform detecting and mitigating DDoS attacks in real-time – showed a 3% year-on-year decline in the overall volume of attacks recorded in […]
Colleges in England receive £400m upgrade boost
Sixty-two further education colleges in England are to benefit from a share of more than £400 million to upgrade buildings and transform campuses. The colleges will be the latest to benefit from the government’s £1.5 billion Further Education Capital Transformation Fund. This significant investment is supporting the transformation of post-16 education and training by ensuring […]
High speed broadband promised for all schools
Every school across the country will be able to access high speed internet by 2025, the government has confirmed. Speaking at the Bett Show in London, the Education Secretary set out the latest step in cross-government plans to roll out lightning-fast gigabit broadband across the UK. To achieve this ambition, the Government has also announced […]
All your education procurement needs in one place
We’re hosting two co-located, invitation-only events in November, and as a senior professional in the education industry, we wanted to extend a personal invitation to you to join us. Education Forum & Education Technology Forum 14th & 15th November, Whttlebury Park, Northamptonshire These intimate, hassle-free Forums allow you to build beneficial business relationships through your own itinerary of […]
Just 9% of UK schools classed as ‘digitally mature’
Just 9% of UK schools are classified as being digitally mature, while nearly one-third (31%) have put a few fundamentals in place necessary to embed digital technology within their school (low digital maturity). That’s according to a Department for Education (DfE) report ‘Exploring digital maturity in schools’, which highlights that the majority (60%) were somewhere in the […]
Ofsted review aims to ‘raise the quality of PE’
Ofsted has published a review looking at physical education (PE), drawing on a range of sources, including its education inspection framework (EIF) and other literature, to identify factors that can contribute to a high-quality curriculum, assessment, pedagogy and systems. The body says it will use this understanding of subject quality to examine how PE is taught in […]
Do you specialise in H&S and Environmental solutions for education? We want to hear from you!
Each month on Education Briefing we’re shining the spotlight on a different part of the education procurement market – and in April we’re focusing on H&S and Environmental services. It’s all part of our ‘Recommended’ editorial feature, designed to help education buyers find the best products and services available today. So, if you specialise in H&S […]