Each week we’ll be bringing you the best and brightest news from the education landscape. Whether it’s policy updates, teacher insights, or inspiration brought to us by young people, you’ll find the latest updates from week commencing 24th August 2020 here.

Each week we’ll be bringing you the best and brightest news from the education landscape. Whether it’s policy updates, teacher insights, or inspiration brought to us by young people, you’ll find the latest updates from week commencing 17th August 2020 here.

John Coleman is a psychologist with a long-standing interest in young people. He has written extensively about adolescent development, having worked in schools, universities and in research centres. His current interests are support for parents of teenagers, and the teenage brain. During lockdown he has been writing blogs and running workshops for parents and for professionals about the situation and how it may affect teenagers and their families. John kindly ran a workshop for us on this subject, so we asked him if he’d be happy to share some of his fascinating insight on our blog channel.

Each week we’ll be bringing you the best and brightest news from the education landscape. Whether it’s policy updates, teacher insights, or inspiration brought to us by young people, you’ll find the latest updates from week commencing 10th August 2020 here.

Last month saw this year’s Step into the NHS competition for primary schools close, and we were thrilled to have over 1,870 entries. This exciting initiative for 7-11-year olds aims to inspire the next generation of NHS staff, exposing them to the hugely varied range of careers which fall under the UK’s biggest employer. With that in mind, it was great to find that 68% of teachers said that the primary motivator to get their pupils involved was all about raising their career aspirations.