A joint initiative to plug Tees Valley’s construction skills gap has won warm praise with three trainees on the cusp of taking their first steps into the industry. Esh Construction and Middlesbrough College joined forces to deliver the Constructing Careers programme. With a remit to ‘engage, enable and excite’ underrepresented groups, by teaching entry level …
These are tense times for everyone involved with Key Subject Tuition. Last week, founder and director Claire Wardle submitted an application that could transform the South Tyneside education provider’s ability to arm a generation of young people and adult learners with vital skills and improved prospects. Should Key Subject Tuition be successful in its bid …
Complex policies need time to demonstrate whether, or to what extent, they have worked. The recent report on the impact of Sure Start is a case in point. Only now, after two decades, is it possible to show the positive impact on health, family functioning and academic achievement. Or take the new tobacco and vapes …
A mature student at the University of Sunderland has swapped the aviation industry for a place among the stars. Astronomer John Race, currently in the final year of an electronic and electrical engineering degree, was volunteering at a local observatory when the idea for a new telescope system came to him. The concept, which uses …
Children from low-income backgrounds boosted their GCSE performance by up to three grades if they lived near a Sure Start centre, according to a new report. Economics research experts from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies revealed the findings after being commissioned by the Nuffield Foundation to look at the impact of Sure Start on …
Nine o’clock on Tuesday morning at Newcastle Civic Centre and children from across the city are trooping in for a spot of opera to get the day off to a rousing and harmonious start. It’s not every morning that a six-year-old from Fenham has a date with a singer who has performed on the operatic …
More than 1,000 school children across the North East are set to benefit from an expanded partnership between two international tech giants. Sportable, the cutting-edge smart-tracking technology company, and Sage, the industry leader in accounting and payroll tech, have doubled down on a programme committed to developing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in …
There can be few greater tests of resilience than the world of football. But as newly appointed college principal and chief executive of Bishop Auckland College Group Shaun Hope is discovering the skills he developed in the game are crossing into education. “When you are growing up with football you don’t realise the lessons you …
Nigel Coates, founder of The Business Clinic, exudes enthusiasm as he extols the virtues of a student-powered, client-focused education scheme that continues to set the standard for experiential learning. Spend time in the company of the innovative marketeer and professor and it’s immediately clear that this is a passion as much as a profession. To …
While the perception is that the world has gone digital, that each of us has our faces buried in a device most of the time, the reality is different, particularly in the North East. International consultancy Deloitte has just published a report highlighting the digital poverty gap and this region is the worst in the …
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