The Schools and Academies Show, taking place on 27 April in London, gives education professionals the opportunity to hear from top industry speakers on ways to tackle the challenges in the sector.
The upcoming SEND review will not be able to present a quick fix to the difficulties SEND families face, so what support networks are out there in the meantime for educators and SEND families?
The Let’s Go Zero campaign is supporting schools in their journey to becoming zero carbon by 2030, and now has more than 1,100 schools signed up. Suzanne Gibbon explains further
For the first time in the School Rebuilding Programme, additional evidence of a buildings’ condition need can be submitted by the responsible body. We examine the new process
How much can edtech help with pandemic recovery, from both an academic and wellbeing perspective? Lord Jim Knight of Weymouth investigates
Schools are being urged to do all they can to increase ventilation, as well as adopt air purification technology, in an effort to combat the spread of Covid-19
The COP26 summit encouraged schools to get engaged with climate action and encourage conversations about the environment and energy efficiency. Here’s what schools got up to
A contracts database is an essential tool in your procurement kit. So how do you create one?
With the pandemic ongoing and travel requirements changing, Justine Lee from the School Travel Forum shares some advice on planning overseas educational visits
The National Fire Chiefs Council believes that there should be an overarching requirement for all schools to have sprinklers, aligning policy across the UK
It’s paramount that green spaces and outdoor surfaces are maintained and that the appropriate maintenance tasks are carried out at the correct time of year, writes BALI's Stephen Ensell
Digital skills are increasingly important for young people’s future, but how do schools know that their provision is meeting the evolving demands of the 21st century?
The Department for Education is supplying schools with CO2 monitors in an effort to improve ventilation and combat the spread of Covid
Many of us purchase products and services but not everyone has had recent procurement training to be able to get the best value from the purchasing process
There is so much more to educational lighting that just cost and energy efficiency. Bob Bohannon shares what should be considered when specifying lighting in schools
A new free loan scheme from the National Centre for Computing Education has made it easier for teachers to explore the possibilities of using physical computing to bring computing to life
With the government’s school rebuilding programme in progress, Andrew Orriss examines how structural timber can assist in this effort, especially from an environmental point of view
Courtney Brightwell from the Department for Education’s Schools Commercial Team discusses the support schools can get when buying goods and services, so they can purchase with confidence
