WORLD MUSIC CONFERENCE OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED
‘The festival is unique in its aim of bringing together artists, academics and music educators from across Africa, Europe, the USA and India’ – Andy Street CBE, Mayor for West Midlands
Dignitaries from all across England and far beyond came together...
Coventry University graduate working to turn young people away from terrorism across West Africa...
A Coventry University graduate devoted to tackling terrorism has spoken about how he stopped a young man joining ISIS with just hours to spare.
Mutaru Mumuni Muqthar, a graduate of Coventry’s International Terrorism masters course, has already helped at least...
Apprenticeship Levy Workshop
Walsall College invited employers to a free workshop on Friday 11th March to get them up to speed with all the facts surrounding the Apprenticeship Levy.
Dozens of businesses attended the breakfast event at the college’s £11m business and sports...
Seeing Double
Two sisters of Bangladeshi heritage are keeping it in the family as they graduate from Birmingham City University (UK) this week and celebrate securing jobs at the same school.
Identical twins Anneka and Sanya Hoque, from Yardley in Birmingham, are...
Is there still a place for girls’ schools?
Figures were recently released by education consultancy SchoolDash showing that girls in single-sex schools got better results at GCSE level than those who attended mixed-sex schools.
Girls’ schools in London did particularly well in comparison to co-educational schools.
Of course,...
Finding a First Role in Which You can be Yourself
How many people do you know who complain about their jobs? Quite a few I imagine: I know I do. When comes to unpicking what actually makes people feel dissatisfied there are many reasons, from low pay to a...
Ammo Talwar MBE is Appointed Chair of CORE Education Trust
A MUSIC and arts champion has been appointed to help lead Birmingham-based CORE Education Trust.
Ammo Talwar, who was awarded an MBE in 2008 for his services to music and young people, is now Chair of Directors at CORE Education...
BIRMINGHAM CATERER OPENS BRAND NEW STATE-OF-THE-ART LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
Cityserve, the organisation behind 70,000 school meals across Birmingham each day, is marking National School Meals Week with the official launch of a brand new state-of-the-art learning and development centre at its headquarters in the city.
The centre, based at...
Student Installs Knife Box At School To Prevent Crime
A secondary school student from Holly Lodge High School in Smethwick has taken it upon herself to design and install a knife box at her school to prevent youngsters from knife crime.
Jakia Khanom, a year 8 student came up...
Nursery Favours Middle Class
According to the Institute of Economic Affairs, the free entitlement to childcare should be replaced with a system that supports disadvantaged children.
As of now, all parents in England have the right to 15 hours of free child care a week...
