An independent school in Harrogate is supporting another “independent” in the town, after refreshing two of its libraries with hundreds of books purchased from the local retailer. Instead of acquiring its books from wholesalers or from national high street stockists, the school is now buying its reading material from Imagined Things
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National College for High Speed Rail holds open day
The National College for High Speed Rail in Doncaster is hosting an Open Day this January, to give future students the chance to learn about courses that are designed to prepare them for a career in rail. The event is the perfect opportunity to get on track for a New Year
Students at employer-led school get the edge in apprenticeships recruitment race
Hull’s school that means business has staged a unique event to give its students the edge in claiming apprenticeships with the city’s leading employers. Around 260 students from Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC) attended the school’s first Apprenticeships Expo, aimed at informing them about sought-after training opportunities with the school’s
Online learning provider breathes life into Ilkley lifesaving campaign
An initiative to make Ilkley the UK’s first town of lifesavers has been launched using a free, online training programme. "Prepared to save a life" is a unique, 40-minute web-based training package launched to businesses this month by Ilkley-based Virtual College. The programme, which is in partnership with Community Save a Life,
York Pullman drives To rescue of transport-less children invited to school play
A coach company has driven to the rescue of transport-less children from a Harrogate school, when they were left with no means of attending Ashville College’s senior school play. Schools from across the Harrogate district were invited to watch “The Greatest Matilda Mashup” and attend a workshop held by Ashville’s head
Scriba short story winners bag 250 books for schools
Huddersfield public relations agency Scriba PR has presented 250 new books to schools across Yorkshire, as a prize for the five winning entrants to its short story competition for under elevens. Budding storytellers were encouraged to take part in the writing contest, which welcomed tales of up to 250 words from
|New development and commercial director for Giggleswick School
Giggleswick School has appointed a former director of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Belinda Eldridge, to the new post of development and commercial director. The independent school is looking to expand its commercial activities to maximise opportunities from more widespread use of its 270 acre site and the new director position is
York handmade plays pivotal role in school’s new art and design block
The award-winning York Handmade Brick Company has played a pivotal role in the creation of the new Art and Design Technology Centre at Pocklington School, near York. York Handmade, based at Alne, near Easingwold, supplied 31,000 bricks for the exterior of the new £3.25 million building, together with 4,300 terracotta tiles
The University of Law appoints Matthew Tomlinson as Dean in Leeds
First higher apprenticeship graduates prepare to celebrate regional first
Higher apprentices at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are among the first group to complete a new pilot training programme in a regional first for healthcare employers. Sixty-eight Trainee Assistant Practitioners (TAPs) at eight healthcare providers in South Yorkshire have achieved the Healthcare Assistant Practitioner Diploma at Level 5 and