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Much of the complexity of designing, installing and maintaining central heating in multi-occupancy low-rise buildings can potentially now be eliminated with a room-by-room solution from Gilberts that combines ventilation with heat boost. The concept means that there is no need to provide radiators in the rooms in which the new …

A local education authority is optimising best value in a major capital building programme, right through to pupil intimate care. Dundee City Council is undertaking a £350million investment plan including regeneration of the waterfront, affordable housing and new schools. The latest project – construction of the new North East Campus …

A Bromley school has been shortlisted for an award for its initiative to bridge the gap between age groups in the community. Every week a group of children from Bickley Park School in Bickley visits the Crown Meadow Nursing Home where they read stories and play games with the elderly …

The Tapscott Learning Trust in Newham is celebrating after its partner schools scooped a raft of major national awards. The Trust, which consists of Ranelagh Primary School in Stratford, Curwen Primary and Nursery School in Plaistow and Kensington Primary School in Manor Park, now boasts a range of new awards …

A programme which offers a unique, immersive and life-changing personal and professional development opportunity is accepting applications for its 2019 intake. Global Learning Partnerships (GLP) has challenged and empowered 86 Scotland-based educators with an authentic learning experience increasing confidence, resilience and resourcefulness. More than 20 practitioners will be invited to …

In honour of the International Baccalaureate’s (IB) 50th anniversary this year, students from 153 countries, studying all four IB programmes came together and developed projects in an effort to tackle real-world problems in extraordinary ways. The initiative, coined #generationIB, gives students a platform to showcase their collaborative skills, innovative ideas …

On 6 and 7 September, a major conference held in Nottingham hosted some of the brightest Maths and Physics students from English universities as part of an annual celebration of future teaching talent. The students, who were all part of the Future Teaching Scholars programme, were spotted as some of …

The Creative Learning Guild, a charity based in Yorkshire which supports the grassroots creative learning movement across the UK, has announced today that nominations are open for the new National Creative Learning Awards. The new national Creative Learning Awards will celebrate the inspirational innovators, educators and practitioners who live and breathe …

Charitable company The Learn2Think Foundation is offering young students the chance to develop their writing, as well as critical thinking, reasoning and research skills in the 2018 Learn2Think Young Journalist Prize. The focus this year is on questioning, challenging 8-11 year olds to think like an investigative journalist, using interviewing …

Cambridge University Press has launched a global competition to find four presenters for its new YouTube channel. The channel – ‘Learn English with Cambridge’- will support English language learners by teaching them how to use English in the real world. Rupert Daniels, Global Marketing Director at Cambridge University Press, said: …