Education

A specialist group is working to make the roads around Nottinghamshire schools safer after the death of a 10-year-old boy in Retford.

Nottinghamshire County Council has said 93.3 per cent of parents and carers secured a place at their first choice primary school for their children in September 2018, up 1 per cent on the 2017 intake.

The partnership providing post-16 education in Retford is to relocate its A-level teaching in order to make space for more technical courses and possibly even higher degrees.

Fire and rescue staff have started growing vegetables at their headquarters after teaming up with a social enterprise for people with learning disabilities.

A student is suing her university, claiming that her 'Mickey Mouse' degree has not helped her get a job.

The school might have been closed because of the heavy snow. But that didn’t stop children at St Anne’s Church Of England Primary School in Worksop from celebrating World Book Day.

Pupils from a Retford primary school talked their way to victory by extolling the virtues of the countryside in a new debating competion for Bassetlaw schools.

Tuxford Academy is celebrating receiving an Investors in People (IIP) platinum award for excellence in business and people management.

Students have been getting hands on learning how to ward off evil spirits over the last few months and are now learning how to make rockets fly.

A move to suspend fines for parents taking children on unauthorised holidays during school term time next year has been rejected by Nottinghamshire County Council.

A new qualification has been launched by The School of Artisan Food at the Welbeck Estate to make it faster and cheaper for budding bakers and food entrepreneurs to advance their careers.

Now we’re into the new term, we’re undertaking studies to decide where is feasible for us to create nearly 1,400 additional school places in areas of Nottinghamshire where demand is expected to outstrip supply.

An aspiring filmmaker from Shireoaks has launched an online crowdfunding campaign for the short movie she hopes will launch her career.

A 15-year-old boy is lobbying to have homework scrapped in secondary schools around the country.

The deadline for Nottinghamshire parents to apply for their child's primary school place is fast approaching.

Nottinghamshire school pupils will be enjoying shorter summer holidays and a longer October half-term after changes were approved by the county council.

These are the Nottinghamshire primary schools which fail to meet national targets for pupil progress.

The best performing schools in Nottinghamshire, according to the Sunday Times, have been revealed.

A young Worksop dancer has landed a prestigious teaching scholarship, becoming the first person from the area to win the national competition.