Two of Telford’s four specialist education units catering for teenage parents and youngsters with behavioural problems will be axed in the autumn, it was revealed today.
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Arsenal in link with county school
A school in Telford is to develop a unique link with Premier League football giants Arsenal which will see academic subjects being taught in tandem with both football and ice hockey.
County among best as truancy rate falls
Shropshire’s school attendance rates are among the best in England, new figures have revealed.
Fury as £60m plan shelved
A £60 million scheme to revamp a Telford college, which would have created thousands of jobs as well as a new fire station, has been delayed by a government cash shortage.
Fears of crowded classrooms
Pupils in parts of Shropshire are being taught in crowded classrooms, official Government figures showed today, with staff teaching classes of 26 children.
No teachers for lessons fear
Lessons at Powys secondary schools could be left unstaffed due to budget cuts according to headteachers.
Kit build for £2.5 million new school
A £2.5 million school will be brought to Mid Wales on the back of 18 lorries and open to pupils in May, council chiefs have revealed.
Schools unite to create history
History has been made in Bridgnorth as a new sixth form partnership between the town’s two main schools means students will be able to attend classes at both secondary schools.
Teen pregnancies down across county
Teenage pregnancy rates across Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin have fallen, setting new regional records.
Dolls will help childcare lessons
A set of interactive “babies” that starkly show the effects of drug and alcohol abuse on foetuses has been bought by a Shropshire college to raise awareness of what the unborn can suffer.
Worries over school funding
The future of sixth form education is in doubt after the Welsh Assembly Government failed to provide adequate funding, it has been revealed.
£2.8m left in schools’ reserves
Shropshire schools left up to £2.8million of taxpayers’ money which should have been spent on children’s education untouched in their banks last year, official figures today reveal.
Party for children’s book festival
The organisers of Shrewsbury’s Children’s Bookfest are holding a party next month to mark its 10 year anniversary.
Schools closed today
Some schools in Shropshire remain closed because of the snow.
Schools closed after snowfalls
More than 60 Shropshire schools were closed today after the heaviest snowfalls for 18 years.
School safety measures unveiled
Pupils arriving at a Telford school will be able to get there more safely thanks to a £77,000 road safety scheme which features a new puffin crossing as well as bollards, waiting restrictions and speed humps.
Cash boost for school repairs
An extra £200,000 is to be spent improving schools across Powys over the next 12 months.
School fails Ofsted test
A Shropshire primary school has been placed in special measures by Government inspectors who say it is failing to to provide an “acceptable” standard of education.
Schools set GCSE records
Shropshire schools were riding high in Government league tables today after setting more GCSE records.
Nearly half of pupils are ‘bullied’
Almost half of the children in Shropshire have experienced bullying and one in eight has taken drugs, new figures claim.
Schools merger is approved
An independent adjudicator has given the go-ahead to the setting up of two new primary schools in Shrewsbury.
Residents to have their say on education
Residents in Oswestry have been reassured they will get the same opportunity as everyone else in Shropshire to comment on how education should be provided in the county.
Schools merger protest goes on
Campaigners fighting to stop the merger of two Shropshire schools are today hoping to win over education watchdogs.
Teacher killed in accident
A Shropshire deputy headteacher has died following a three-car road crash.
Attendance Week to tackle truanting
Parents who allow children to stay off school for spurious reasons are being targeted in a new crackdown on truancy in Telford.
Failing school now ‘outstanding’
A Shropshire primary school which was slammed as failing by an education watchdog has completed a dramatic transformation after being classed as “outstanding” just three years later.
Schools plan faces £30m funding gap
Another three Telford schools could be added to a list of seven already set to be bulldozed and rebuilt as part of a massive overhaul of education in the borough, it has been announced.
Print error causes exam confusion
A printing error in a GCSE physics exam has caused confusion for tens of thousands of students.
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