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For younger students, there is the VEX IQ Challenge which is specifically for KS2 and KS3. The IQ Challenge is based on its big brother but uses smaller robots made with the tool-less VEX IQ system. Just like in the VEX Robotics Competition, the robots need to be able to …

WISE and Jaguar Land Rover today open the 2015 Range Rover Evoque WISE Scholarship, aimed at young women planning a career in technology and engineering in the UK. Launched in 2013 by Zara Phillips, the Scholarship is open to those embarking on or currently undertaking an engineering, maths or physics …

The City of London Corporation has opened entries for this year’s Lord Mayor’s Dragon Awards, the UK’s oldest and most distinguished Corporate Community Engagement awards. This year, the City of London Corporation is particularly interested in hearing about the education Corporate Community Engagement programmes of businesses and with four out …

The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) has been awarded project funding from the Government to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying in schools. The Sex Education Forum and the Anti-Bullying Alliance, both based at NCB, have been granted funding from a £2m package of support created by the Department of …

Save the Children is calling on UK schools to ‘build a better world’ with the launch of an exciting new fundraising initiative – ‘Den Day’.  Launching on 29th May and running until 6th June, Save the Children’s Den Day invites schools to pick a date and hold a day of …

Eight excited Year 7s from schools across Birmingham and Solihull are vying for a dream family holiday prize worth £600 after winning through to a regional competition final. But they need your help – because a public vote will now decide which pupil will be whisking their loved ones away …

Naace, the community of educators, technologists and policy makers has announced a focus on raising achievement through technology at its annual Naace Strategic Conference. The conference, which will be held at East Midlands Conference Centre on March 25th and 26th, comes a month after the Select Committee on Digital Skills called …

Hundreds of primary and secondary school pupils across the north east of England will benefit from 12 brand new schools being supported by a GBP 46.3 million long-term loan from the European Investment Bank. The new schools will be built on either existing or new sites and construction is expected …

This year’s National Apprenticeship Week (9 to 13 March) marks the two-year anniversary of the official launch of the National School Apprenticeships Programme (NSA). The programme was originally piloted in the North West with 4 schools but due to its success, the programme was launched nationally in September 2013 and …

UK secondary schools are being urged to put themselves forward as potential candidates for a ground-breaking pilot, which will see a Head of Wellbeing seconded to the school, in a bid to help combat rising levels of poor physical and mental health among pupils and teachers. Nuffield Health has committed …