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Sunday, May 19, 2024
Ghanaian students studying in Bournemouth University are living in a hopeless situation as the UK government continue to impose strict measures towards fighting the novel Coronavirus currently spreading across the globe. A telephone interaction with some of these students mostly living on their own at various private and school accommodations, revealed hunger, difficulty...
Katy Dore-Smith, Sharon Mackett, Martin McAndrew, Diane Granell, Maria Hollington, Matt Butcher, Carina George
Bournemouth & Poole College has launched its new Digital Skills Centre to help meet the demand of employers looking to hire young people with digital-related qualifications. The recent Tech Nation report has stated that the tech sector is expanding 2.6 times faster than the rest of the UK economy, with...
Through a hands-on Business Studies initiative, Year 11 pupils at Ballard School, an independent school for children aged 2-16, have helped to shape future marketing plans for Ringwood company, Avon Organics. Rather than just learning the academics of GCSE Business Studies, pupils at Ballard School, based in New Milton, have...
Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Bournemouth University (BU) have signed an agreement to create a new ground-breaking medical science institute in Dorset. The new Institute for Medical Imaging and Visualisation will be a hub for Medical Imaging technology programme and research development, in partnership with education, clinical practice and...
As millions of parents admit they struggle to help with maths homework, the nation needs a maths confidence boost Parents have less confidence talking to their kids about maths and science than they do sex education, reveals new research from learning and assessment provider Renaissance Maths was the subject most likely to...
Dorset County Council has set out proposals in a paper going to Cabinet on 17 October for a redefined relationship between the council and schools and academies across Dorset. The aim of the proposals is to bring about school improvement through the creation of a new Dorset School Improvement Board...
Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (Dorset LEP) has allocated just over £1.3 million of Local Growth Funding to three local colleges and a university in Dorset - a significant local investment in our young people. Dorset LEP’s investment will work to address key skills gaps and unlock talent and ambition across...
Art student delivers impressive presentation at regional finals of the ARTiculation Prize 2018
The Roche Court Educational Trust New Art Centre in Salisbury was the venue for the regional finals of the ARTiculation Prize 2018. Ashleigh Smith, Level 3 BTEC Visual Arts Extended Diploma student from Bournemouth & Poole College, delivered an impressive presentation on Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1988 painting 'Riding with Death'. The ARTiculation...
Journeys made on foot, by bike and scooter during Sustrans Big Pedal event could have created 1,600kg of CO2 and 31kg of NOx if pupil’s journeys to school had been made in cars. The walking and cycling charity Sustrans’ Big Pedal event saw over 4,900 children take part in Dorset...
Dorchester Agricultural Society funds local school farm visits
Dorchester Agricultural Society paid for 120 pupils from Jewell Academy, a primary school in Bournemouth, to visit North West Farm in Winterborne Kingston. The Society set up the Dorchester Agricultural Society 1840 Education Fund three years ago to provide Dorset schools with knowledge of agriculture, horticulture and rural enterprise. It...