News for: Education

An anti-bullying programme at Stockport Academy in Cheadle Heath has been recognised nationally for the fifth year, after winning another Bullying Intervention Group (BIG) Award. The school is the only secondary school in Stockport to have been recognised by the BIG Awards, and impressed judges … [Read more...]

Small and medium-sized business owners in Stockport are being encouraged to sign up to free management training from Manchester Metropolitan University's Business School as part of the government's Help to Grow scheme. The Help to Grow: Management programme combines a practical curriculum with … [Read more...]

Greater Manchester has launched a new training academy to provide over a thousand residents with retrofitting skills to ensure the city-region's homes and buildings are fit for a low-carbon future as part of a commitment to becoming carbon-neutral by 2038. European Social Funding of £1.1 million … [Read more...]

Skills City, a training provider that supports alternative routes into employment in the tech sector, has been awarded £1.2 million from the Department for Education (DfE) to support 450 people in the North West through Skills Bootcamps. Based at MediaCityUK and developed by HOST, Skills City … [Read more...]

Stockport Council has pledged to guarantee public access to the town centre's historic Central Library, irrespective of whether library services move to a newly proposed learning hub in Merseyway. An engagement process to deliver a £14.5 million learning and discovery space, provisionally named … [Read more...]

Cheadle based digital and branding agency, Dawn Creative, has delivered a new website for a Buckinghamshire school. The agency has delivered a new website and parent portal for Wycombe High School, an all-girls grammar school in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The school reached out to a … [Read more...]

Young people across the UK have continued to gain access to workplace and careers-related learning through a boom in virtual work experience opportunities throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Young people have been disproportionately affected by the Covid-19 restrictions, suffering major disruption … [Read more...]

A former pastry chef, retraining in engineering at Stockport College, has won a prestigious national learning award after her return to education. Nikki-Ann (pictured) returned to education later in her life to retrain from a pastry chef, to pursuing a career in engineering after suffering … [Read more...]