The University of Birmingham Guild of Students is to highlight the importance of volunteering and part-time work to students during the week of the February 20.

There were mixed results for West Midlands schools as the national league tables for A-level and GCSE results were published today.

Horn End Nurseries, located in Hixon, Stafford and Rugeley, today announced that it has received national recognition for the quality of care it offers children. It is the only local chain of nurseries to achieve this award at this level.

Wolverley CE Secondary School was inspected last month by inspectors from the Church of England. The overall result was that the “distinctiveness and effectiveness“ of the school as a Church of England school are “good”.

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

Scores of headteachers across the Midlands are signing up for a new course aimed at helping their primary schools pass Ofsted inspections.

On Friday, I was interviewed by BBC WM radio about Michael Gove’s proposals to make it easier to dismiss under-performing teachers, 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.

Parents of pupils in Staffordshire today called for education bosses to reconsider plans to introduce five terms into the school year after the proposals were scrapped.

The bill for redundancies at schools in Staffordshire will rise to more than £9 million by 2017, it emerged today.