Education
By Community Correspondent The University of Leicester and Leicester City Football Club are offering £5,000 scholarships to encourage school and college leavers in the region’s most deprived areas to pursue higher education. Five Leicester City Football Club Scholarships are up for grabs for home applicants who live in
Education
By Education Correspondent A patient safety campaigner whose teenage daughter died after mistakes in hospital care has visited medical students in Leicester to see how a unique teaching approach is helping future doctors develop empathy. Merope Mills, who founded the campaign behind Martha’s Rule, met students at the University
Schools
By Education Correspondent A much-loved headteacher who helped shape the early years of thousands of children across West Norfolk has announced she will retire after a 34-year career in education. Louise Jackson, Executive Headteacher of Heacham Infants, Heacham Juniors and Snettisham Primary, will step down in December. She has led
Education
By Business Correspondent Bristol Airport has donated a Mercedes 'bendy bus' to City of Bristol College’s Parkway Centre, to help students to learn hands-on industry skills. The articulated bus may have reached the end of its service life at the airport, but the wheels on the bus
Charities
By Animals Correspondent Even for students of equine medicine it can be a surprise to learn about how different donkeys and mules are from horses, as one group of visitors recently found out during a day at The Donkey Sanctuary in East Devon. The first port of call for the
Education
By Education Correspondent A new Teacher Degree Apprenticeship (TDA) in Secondary Mathematics is helping tackle the national shortage of maths teachers by offering a paid, debt-free route into the profession. Students at the University of Staffordshire are among the first in the country to take part. The programme lets trainees
News
By Community Correspondent Law students at Oxford Brookes University have partnered with Citizens Advice Oxfordshire to launch a new legal advice clinic providing free support to people across the county. The new clinic will give students supervised, hands-on experience working directly with clients, while helping to meet rising demand for
Education
By Education Correspondent The University of Leicester has taken an ambitious step to prepare every single one of its undergraduates for the world of work. From September 2026, all campus-based, undergraduate students completing the whole of their programme at Leicester will receive a guaranteed minimum 100 hours of employer-informed Work-Related
Education
By Animals and Education Correspondents This year, a Zoo and conservation charity in North Somerset, is teaming up with the one and only Santa to champion literacy this Christmas. Families will be invited to step into Santa’s library, where each child will be gifted a special book - with
People
By Education Correspondent A retired GP from the University of Portsmouth has discovered three new species of dinosaur on the Isle of Wight — transforming what scientists know about Britain’s prehistoric past. Dr Jeremy Lockwood, 68, swapped his stethoscope for fossils after retiring from medicine, joining the University’s palaeontology
Jill Dando News
By Oliver Masley, 15, Jill Dando News Correspondent at WCSA Newsroom Worle Community School Academy’s (WCSA), in Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, music department never fails to deliver excellence in the arts. Its alumni have gone on to become members of prestigious groups, receive scholarships, and perform in stunning venues such
Education
By Education Correspondent The new headteacher of a Derby secondary school has jumped into his new role with both feet – and purchased 100 pairs of shoes for students who need them. Within days of starting as headteacher of Derby Cathedral School, Andy Brown purchased shoes and uniform, a gesture that
Education
By Community Correspondent Teachers are being invited to swap their projectors and paint pots for a day out at the world’s oldest scientific zoo this autumn, as London Zoo offers the nation’s educators free entry for World Teacher Day. The world-famous Zoo, run by the global conservation charity
Education
By Education Correspondent One of the first of its kind in the UK, the University of Bristol Law Clinic has grown into one of the largest, inspiring similar initiatives at universities nationwide. In 2023, it won the Best Contribution by a Law School award at the LawWorks and Attorney General
Education
By Education Correspondent Economics as a school subject leads to more entrepreneurial activity in later professional life, as shown by a recent study by the ifo Institute and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). According to the study, the probability of entrepreneurial activity increases by four percentage points if economics was
Schools
By Education Correspondent Evergreen Primary Academy’s Year 5 pupils have officially begun their exciting journey as part of the Mini Police programme. Resplendent in their smart new uniforms, complete with hats and high-visibility jackets, the children are eager to make a positive difference in their local community. Over the