Education secretary Justine Greening is holding the first Skills Summit today, 30 November and is expected to tell Britain’s top businesses that enlisting their support in training the next generation of highly skilled British workers is the key to creating a country fit for the future
Schools and education organisations across the country have won a share of £50,000 from Leeds Beckett University to find out what really works to improve the lives of children and young people.
The government’s Social mobility in Great Britain: fifth state of the nation report, shows that worst performing areas for social mobility are no longer inner city areas, but remote rural and coastal areas, and former industrial areas, especially in the Midlands.
Welsh education secretary Kirsty Williams has announced the roll-out of Google for Education which will enable teachers to have more choice of the digital tools they use.
Exam regulator Ofqual has launched a consultation that proposes changes to non-exam assessment in GCSE computer science given evidence of widespread rule breaches.