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The paper makes the case that while AI systems are making coding more efficient, we still need expert human programmers to ...
It follows the government’s announcement in March to award £180 million of funding for schools and hospitals to install ...
The government has announced it will be expanding the eligibility of free school meals, with every pupil whose household is ...
The adoption of tablet technology in schools has not always come with positive news. As we move from the ‘innovators’ into the ‘early adopter’ phase of the technology adoption life-cycle, we are ...
The UK has passed into law a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050. So is it possible to have a net zero carbon school building? A framework for achieving net zero carbon ...
What does the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) mean to those in education? Education Business caught up with some experts from the GDPR Advisory Board to grill them about the regulation’s ...
Since the launch of the free-to-use Soft Landings Framework in 2009, clients and project teams behind new schools have been keen to adopt the soft landings process of graduated handover. Many are ...
Funding for primary schools to set up nurseries has been more than doubled to £37 million. But how does the funding work, and what, realistically, will school-based nurseries look like? EB explains ...
The world’s first antimicrobial classroom, created at a primary school in the south east of England, saw levels of bacteria reduced by 96 per cent. This was achieved by refurbishing the classroom with ...
In mid-July, the education sector received some good news: schools are to receive an additional £1.3bn over the next two years. However, the Institute for Fiscal Studies brought us back to reality ...
Research has shown that inconsistencies in approaches to identifying SEND in schools is leading to inequalities in provision, prompting calls for training in child development and SEND to become a ...
Twenty per cent of allergic reactions to food occur in schools, and while some schools are well prepared to deal with the needs of children with food allergies, others still have some way to go. So ...