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During the school summer holidays, GoRead will be running its yearly Summer Readathon competition, with the aim of encouraging children to read more outside the classroom. The school that reads the most during the period wins a £250 book voucher, with various prizes for runners up, allowing schools to continue …

Alexandra Parlour, European Marcoms and Education Marketing Manager at Sony Professional Displays and Solutions Sony experienced significant momentum in the Education sector across Europe during and after the COVID-19 pandemic to support universities in offering students the best learning experience. It saw a growing demand for its education solutions and …

The days of wheeling a trolley full of laptops into a classroom for students to access and then return is changing. Students want easy access to devices whenever they need them, teachers don’t have the time to hand them out, monitor who has them and who has returned them. IT …

Retractable seating offers schools and universities more flexible use of their halls and significantly increases opportunities for lettings and generation of income. The benefits of installing a retractable seating system are numerous: schools are able to stage their own performing arts productions in a more professional way with the audience …

In his regular wellbeing column for Education Today this month Mark Solomons, CEO of School Wellbeing Accelerator – an acclaimed wellbeing expert with over 12 years’ experience developing leadership and culture in UK schools and creator of Welbee, a highly effective online evaluation and staff wellbeing improvement tool, finalist in …

Since 2017, global education technology company, Promethean, has ran an annual competition that gives schools from across the UK and Ireland the chance to win the latest ActivPanel. With this year’s ‘Classroom Stories’ competition open for entries – and 20 of the company’s market-leading interactive displays available to win – …

In our third feature this month looking at exams, we’re delighted to hear from Caroline Hind, registered nutritional therapist at Vitaminology, who offers some top tips on maintaining good brain health and function through the use of key nutrients. Exams. The very word strikes fear into the heart of the …

Developing your learners’ individual qualities will allow them to thrive as responsible citizens of the future in a demanding global society. With a world that is increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, we know that our learners will grow up facing challenging circumstances. To enable them to flourish and overcome …

Although forced to find solutions to enable learning from home during the pandemic, some education providers have found that the right communications platform can create a hybrid learning environment that is actually more engaging for students than traditional teaching methods. One such example is Professor Feltus at Clemson University, USA, …

There is a growing body of evidence supporting the idea that biophilic architectural design can have a significant positive impact upon the wellbeing of a building’s occupants, their productivity and their creativity. Specifically, within an educational setting, students in a biophilic classroom display enhanced physical, mental and emotional health; improved …