Education News

Coinciding with #InspiringFutureTheatre Day today (Wednesday 11 July), young theatre-makers can now apply to be a part of the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse’s Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) Programme for 2018. The programme is designed to develop and nurture young theatre makers of the future, through a hands-on course giving YEP members ...

Culture Secretary Matt Hancock has called for mobile phones to be confiscated at the start of the school day. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Matt said mobile phones can have a “real impact” on academic achievement and called for more headteachers to “follow the lead” of colleagues who ban phones ...

St Margaret’s Old Boys Football Club has been crowned winners of the Liverpool Old Boys League following a superb 5-2 victory. The team, made up of former students from St Margaret’s CE Academy in Aigburth, beat Collegiate Old Boys in the title-deciding match with goals from Matthew Robinson (2), Michael Taylor ...

A new 500-word short story competition - with entries judged by best-selling author Philip Pullman - is being launched ahead of the 2018 Liverpool Literary Festival. The China Stories competition is looking for submissions across a broad range of categories. Winners will see their work published in a special anthology and ...

The entry deadline for this year’s Educate Awards is fast approaching, with entries closing on Sunday 24 June. The awards, in association with Copyrite Systems and Ricoh, was founded by Kim O’Brien in 2012. It is the largest education awards in the North West and celebrates every aspect of the school’s ...