Education

A local education supply agency has set out its expansion plans across Merseyside, following a prestigious accreditation by The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC). SIL Supply is a professional and ethical supply and recruitment service that assists schools with their staffing needs. Part of the School Improvement Liverpool family, SIL Supply are committed to robust safeguarding and ...

Liverpool has appointed a city headteacher to its newly created role of chief education officer. Heather Duggan has been recruited from Archbishop Blanch Church of England High School in Wavertree, where she had been in charge since 2014. She drove a huge improvement in attainment which saw the school rise from near ...

The benefits of one-on-one tutoring The history of private tuition goes back a lot further than you might think - all the way to ancient Greece in fact. On the say-so of his father, a 13-year-old Alexander the Great was mentored on a range of topics, including the doctrines of morals and ...

With a new system in place for rating schools, we take a look at how parents should interpret league tables and find how you should really go about finding the right school. Christine Toner reports. This month, thousands of pupils will have started senior schools up and down the country. Impeccably dressed ...

Provisional figures show Liverpool has made improvements in primary school standards over the last two years and is continuing to narrow the gap with the national average. Interim test and teacher assessment figures for 2018 released by the Department of Education  show that at Key Stage 2, the percentage of Year ...