Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville are being snubbed because it costs too much to hire them, it was today claimed.

The final decision on plans to bulldoze and rebuild five Telford secondary schools has been delayed after a massive public response.

Plans have been unveiled to build two ‘super schools’ for three to 19 year olds in Powys. But the move could see the closure of at least three primary schools across the region.

When fundraisers supporting a rural Shropshire primary school were set a £10,000 target to help pay for a new demountable classroom, they thought it would take them several years to secure the money.

Parents who put children’s lives at risk by breaking the speed limit and parking illegally outside schools in Telford will face court action, police warned today.

The arguments over the value or otherwise of the school performance tables have become all part of the ritual, and it is easy to be cynical about what they appear to show.

Shropshire schools were today celebrating another record in the number of pupils achieving the top GCSE grades – while national figures showed thousands of teenagers are still failing to get good results after being let down by under-performing schools.

Staff at a secondary school in Shrewsbury are seeking permission to build a brand new dance studio for students.

Last week I was fortunate to attend a wonderful morning with about 50 primary school children, writes education blogger Kit Field.

The government are making sweeping changes to the way ICT and computing are taught in UK schools, by ‘scrapping’ the ICT National Curriculum and replacing it with computer science lessons, writes education blogger Gavin Rhoades.

Hard-pressed parents are facing a major rise in school bus fares in Shropshire after operator Arriva raised prices above inflation.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony has taken place to mark the opening of a new school in Telford on the £35 million Abraham Darby site.

An action group has been set up over plans to build a faith school in Telford, with residents concerned it wouldn’t be a new school but rather the moving of an old one.

Youngsters had an extra day at home today after a school in Shropshire was forced to close due to heating problems.

A school in a historic Shropshire town is now at the forefront of 21st century education, its headteacher said today.

Last week the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) predicted that there will be many schools without head teachers in the next five years, writes education blogger Kit Field.

Staff and children at a primary school in Broseley are celebrating after it received an ‘outstanding’ rating, the highest possible mark, from Ofsted inspectors.

Amid all the gloom that is around at the moment, there is one shaft of shining sunlight for Shropshire.

Shropshire’s primary schools were today celebrating success in the latest round of education results with county pupils achieving above the national average for English and maths.

You may have seen on the news on how examiners and teachers may have colluded to help young people to predict examination questions, and thereby increase their chances of attaining high scores.

A new headteacher has been appointed at Shrewsbury High School. Michael Getty will be taking up his new role in September following the retirement of Marilyn Cass.

Plans to expand a village school look set to go ahead after the project won backing from council officials.

More Shropshire schools were added to a closure list today ahead of the biggest day of strike action in 30 years.

More schools in Shropshire have announced they will close next week as the Government warns trade union laws could be altered to make it more difficult to strike.

This is the full list of school closures and partial closures, as announced by Shropshire Council today:

The opening of a £35 million academy in Telford has been delayed by six months after part of its roof collapsed, it was revealed today.

The full impact on Shropshire of next week’s public sector strikes was beginning to emerge today, with dozens of schools in the county set to close.

Staff and governors at a school in Market Drayton have pledged to build on encouraging findings in its latest Ofsted report, which praised improvements to its quality of teaching and the links with the local community.

The reshaped Building Schools for the Future programme announced for Telford will mark the biggest upheaval in the town’s educational infrastructure in a generation.

Professor Kit Field of the University of Wolverhampton asks whether media coverage of education devalues the experiences of pupils and whether more positive programming is required: