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North East unis funded for defence industry education " but there's a catch
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (851+ words) Three North East universities are among 24 educational institutions to share "80mn to provide up to 2, 500 more student places and build new facilities to prepare young people for jobs in the defence sector over the coming decade. Newcastle, Durham and Teesside are…...
Mayor backs South Tyneside College campus move
1+ week, 2+ day ago (816+ words) Bosses at the Department for Education (Df E) served Tyne Coast College with a financial notice to improve last month, after a review of its ongoing construction of the new South Tyneside College campus in the heart of South Shields " as…...
Hadrian House and the death of democratic planning in Newcastle
2+ week, 5+ day ago (645+ words) The democratic institutions are so opaque as to be meaningless. How are such motions as the development of more student accommodation decided and approved? How do they determine whether it is a policy with popular support? The fact is that…...
Tyne Coast College hit by Financial Notice to Improve
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1689+ words) ID 143769524 " Chris Dorney | Dreamstime. com Tyne Coast College, a group of colleges in South and North Tyneside, has been served with a Financial Notice to Improve (Nt I) by the Department for Education (Df E) because of "weaknesses in the oversight and…...
Northumberland: plans to rebuild SEND school currently housed in 19th century buildings
3+ week, 1+ day ago (750+ words) A special school currently housed in buildings that date back almost 200 years could be rebuilt in the coming years." Northumberland County Council has submitted an application to the government in the hopes of building a new Barndale School in Alnwick....
Lifelong learning entitlement opens up North East universities to adults
3+ week, 2+ day ago (394+ words) Under the government's new Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) scheme, the region's five universities " Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside, plus Middlesbrough College " are all among the first 130 institutions of higher and further education taking part. People who already have a…...
The human aspect is what matters most: Palestinian student organiser speaks about dialogue and division in Israel
3+ week, 5+ day ago (797+ words) Palestinian student organiser Taimaa Sawaed told a recent UK Friends of Standing Together meeting about her work with the Jewish-Arab grassroots movement Standing Together, building dialogue between students and responding to tensions within Israeli society. At a recent UK Friends…...
Poverty hacking the future
4+ week, 2+ day ago (502+ words) As a long-time fan of Sci-Fi, May always feels like a good month. Increasingly, I find myself aware that the digital future many of us are celebrating or consuming risks widening inequalities in ways we are still only beginning to…...
North East AI drive to boost local skills and business growth
4+ week, 1+ day ago (896+ words) At the same time, the team behind Sovereign AI " a "500mn first-of-its-kind national effort to back Britain's smartest founders and keep the future of'AI'built on British shores " hosted an event in Newcastle inviting some of the region's most ambitious AI startups…...
Government fightback starts here
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (403+ words) The Starmer government today (10 May) chose the North East as the location of one of two "missions" to launch the start of the fightback against its humiliating defeats by Reform UK in last week's council elections. The new education missions…...