IN need of a career change? ACL Essex launches new hair and beauty courses to boost Essex entrepreneurial spirit. Adult learning provider, ACL Essex, is launching new hair and beauty courses to support entrepreneurial residents of Essex into the industry. Learners will have the chance…

WATCH a partial Solar Eclipse live stream below. The last one for 70 years! The eclipse will begin at 10am https://www.youtube.com/embed/s7UMdct3yzo

THE Education Committee today publishes a response from the Secretary of State for Education, Rt Hon Kit Malthouse MP, to its letter regarding the Government’s special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) review.  The Committee’s initial correspondence raised concerns, based on their predecessor committee’s Special Educational…

FUNDING of £7.9 million has been secured to support thousands of Essex residents to improve their numeracy skills, gain a qualification, get into employment, and build their confidence. The Department for Education has accepted Essex County Council’s (ECC) case for ‘Multiply’, part of a new…

AN open letter to Conservative MPs about the school & college funding crisisahead of this week’s leadership elections. Dear colleagues, We write as leaders of national education organisations across the UK. Between us werepresent and support the vast majority of leaders, teachers, governors, trustees, parents…

THE Department for Education has published its provisional key stage 4 school performance data. All secondary schools are awarded a Progress 8 score based on the improvement made by students there between Key Stage 2 at the end of primary school and Key Stage 4,…

HARLOW’S MP, Robert Halfon visited Harlow College for the 92nd time this week in celebration of Colleges Week. Harlow College is now one of the best colleges in the country leading the way for apprentices and degree apprentices throughout Essex. During the visit, he spoke…

PARENTS of Year 6 pupils due to start secondary school in September 2023 are reminded that they only have until 31 October 2022 to apply for their child’s secondary school place.With ten days to go until the closing date, parents are encouraged to use the…

A HARLOW barbers has made a very charitable offer to Harlow schoolboys. The barber shop company has written to schools in Harlow and made a very generous offer. A spokesperson said: ‘Here at Ali Barbers Group we understand that things have got increasingly difficult for…

THIS autumn, Essex County Council is continuing the holiday free school meal vouchers scheme it has run successfully since Christmas 2020. Free school meal vouchers will be available for around 50,000 eligible pupils across Essex this October half-term (24-28 Oct) thanks to renewed funding from the…

HUNDREDS more families are considering sending their children to a secondary school after it secured its best ever Ofsted grading. Epping St John’s Church of England School, in Epping, was classified as Good by inspectors when they visited in April. It was the first time…

ST Mark’s West Essex Catholic School” October Newsletter. Another very busy month for the very popular school.

ADULT learning provider, ACL Essex, is supporting refugees across the county with a wide range of courses to equip them for life in a new country and wants to hear from anyone wishing to access their services. Over the past few months, hundreds of refugees…

THE CHIEF executive of the Passmores Co-operative Learning Community has described the new merger with Stewards Academy as a “collaboration and not a competition”. YH went down to the Passmores Academy on Tracyes Road to speak to Vic Goddard and find out a little bit…