Education Business chats to RIBA’s Caroline Buckingham about the importance of good design when developing new school buildings and what should be done to tackle the pupil place shortage A good school ...

Some twenty years on from the full ban on asbestos in construction, its presence in many older school buildings remains a national problem. John McClean, Chair of the Joint Union Asbestos Campaign, ...

Richard Martin, digital transformation lead at edtech charity LGfL – The National Grid for Learning, provides a blueprint for building an effective IT strategy, with an outline of the key components ...

The latest research highlights that learning outside the classroom has maximum impact when it is woven into the school curriculum and daily teaching practice. Matilda Miles from the Council for ...

The past five years has seen significant investment in public parks and play areas and a substantial amount of this impetus was generated by the national play strategy launched by the government in ...

Simply bringing about behaviour change within a school can cut its energy usage by ten per cent quickly and easily, writes Lee Wray-Davies, Eco Schools' education manager Children and young people ...

Research shows that obese children and adolescents are more likely to become obese adults and also develop various diseases such as type 2 diabetes, and a worrying 30 per cent of children in England ...

With hundreds of schools having a fire each year, the fact that fewer than one in six new schools have a sprinkler system is worrying. Iain Cox from the Business Sprinkler Alliance explains In a month ...

Educational trips can broaden students’ horizons. Jane Cooper, of the Countryside Education Trust in the New Forest, regularly witnesses how school trips can connect people with the countryside.

Pupils at Stretford High School could not contain their delight when Manchester United’s manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, paid them a visit. With a total of 48 titles to his name, so far, he is the most ...

The pandemic sadly created a legacy of lost learning. But incidents of fire at a child’s school can also have a negative impact on education. Tom Roche, secretary of the Business Sprinkler Alliance ...

The quality of teachers, alongside leadership, is one of the most important factors in improving the education our children receive. And the people who know best how to raise standards in our school ...