Lord Agnew’s cost-cutting consultants have advised a Dorset school and many others across the country to replace experienced teachers with support staff on term-time contract; to limit lunch portions for pupils; save money on supply teachers by instead using spare staff to cover three classes at a time in...
Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has approved loan funding of £250,000 towards improving a popular tourist attraction at Kingston Maurward College.
Kingston Maurward College is a specialist college which delivers skills and training in land-based studies including agriculture, environment, animal welfare, conservation and construction for students from the ages of...
My son George contracted meningitis at 11 months old. He was left brain damaged, with cerebral palsy, deaf, hydrocephalus, severe scoliosis, dislocated hips, epileptic, non-verbal and having to be peg fed by a gastrostomy peg - this peg is what keeps him alive. He requires 24/7 care. Sadly his...
A British technology company is encouraging higher education students in Dorset to apply for its new fintech scholarship…provided they are studying something other than finance or computer science.
The fintech firm's contrarian approach to addressing a looming talent shortage has been hailed by politicians, academics and business leaders across the...
A school garden project is being given £500 a year for the next three years by Dorset law firm Kitson & Trotman.
The much-needed donation comes after one of the firm’s Partners, Richard King, visited the garden at St Mary’s Primary School, Bridport, as he accompanied judges of this year’s...
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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...
West Dorset student Marina Parker has been awarded this year’s Kitson & Trotman bursary to study Law at university.
Marina, 18, was a student at the Sir John Colfox Academy, Bridport, where she has passed A levels in Government & Politics, English Literature and History. She has won a place to study Law...
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...
From Yate, Southampton and Oxfordshire, the Class of ‘58- those who began studying at Hardye’s School in Dorchester in 1958- headed for their annual reunion at the Colliton Club. Aged 11 in 1958, these Old Hardyeans are now past the milestone of 70 years old, some having attained their...
