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Millennium Point Charitable Trust has announced donations of more than £4.8 million to science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) projects across the West Midlands last year. All of the commercial activity that takes place in the 46,450 square metre landmark Millennium Point building feeds back into the charity, enabling it …

Montessori Centre International (MCI), the leading provider of Montessori training courses, recently welcomed 80 new graduate practitioners. MCI trains more than 300 students globally each year on its diploma, foundation degree and professional development Montessori courses. Montessori settings are enjoying revived interest from parents in the UK due to their …

The Bright Ideas Challenge, Shell’s national schools competition for students aged 11-14, is open for entries for the fourth year running. The competition invites young people to use their Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) skills to come up with ‘bright ideas’ for powering future cities to be vibrant, healthy, …

The Royal Agricultural University (RAU) has announced a partnership with equestrian centre, Rein and Shine, which broadens the range of equine provision for both groups of students. BTEC Level 3 students at Rein and Shine at Braydon, Swindon will spend an away day at the RAU in Cirencester as part …

Premier Foods is bringing back its McDougalls Young Baking Team of the Year competition for the fifth year running, and will focus on how cookery skills can help build children’s overall confidence. Judges returning include – Carol Harwood, representing LACA; Andrew Green, representing the Craft Guild of Chefs; and Mark …

AMER HAFIZ, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR AT NORTECH CONTROL SYSTEMS, REVIEWS THE EVOLUTION OF IDENTITY CREDENTIALS IN ACCESS CONTROL Access control is defined as “the selective restriction of access to a place or other resource”. For an automatic access control system to function, it requires a means of identifying individuals to determine …

Villiers Park Educational Trust has announced Rae Tooth as its new Chief Executive Officer. Rae led the development of the new higher education regulator The Office for Students (OfS), as Head of Strategy and Change, and oversaw transition from the Office for Fair Access (OFFA) in April of this year. …

A new campaign led by University of Sussex academics is urging teachers and pupils to be allowed to embrace uncertainty and explore new ways to engage with knowledge. TRANSFORM-iN EDUCATION is designed to support teaching staff and pupils to have time and space within the day to break with convention …

Almost 400 UK teens have been honoured by one of the UK’s leading engineering programmes. Some 393 students – including a record-equalling 113 girls – achieved a coveted Arkwright Engineering Scholarship award as part of a drive to inspire future leaders in engineering. The talented group, aged 16-17, were presented …

A Sixth Form pupil from St Albans School has won a silver medal at the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), an international science competition held this year in Beijing. Thomas Hillman was selected to represent the UK team at the IOAA following an astrophysics competition held in Oxford …