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Ormskirk’s Edge Hill University to lose nearly £1m for having too many students

NEARLY a million pounds is to be slashed from a university’s budget as punishment for taking on too many students.Read

Phil Redmond ‘humbled’ by University of Liverpool honorary degree

GRANGE Hill creator Phil Redmond said he felt “humbled” after being honoured by the university which helped spawn his ground- breaking children’s TV drama.Read

Pupils summon Education Secretary Michael Gove to Liverpool to explain school building cuts

ANGRY pupils no longer getting new schools have summoned Education Secretary Michael Gove to Liverpool and accused him of “treating students as government debt collectors”.Read

Oxford professor to be honoured by University of Liverpool

ANDREW PETTIGREW, professor of strategy and organisation at the Said Business School, at the University of Oxford, was due to pick up an honorary degree in Liverpool today.Read

Honorary degree for Edge Hill University’s ex-chair of governors

A UNIVERSITY has saluted one of the key figures behind its success.Read

Film director Terence Davies among those to be honoured by the University of Liverpool this week

AWARD-WINNING British film director and screenwriter Terence Davies is among those receiving honorary degrees from the University of Liverpool this week.Read

Ex-Spiderman illustrator salutes comic book Marvels at Crosby’s Merchant Taylors’ school

A COMIC expert who helped bring the Bash Street Kids and Spider-Man to life has branded a Merseyside school’s own magazine “one of the finest I’ve ever had to edit”.Read

Sailing coach and ex-biology teacher at Crosby school Merchant Taylors’ arrested over indecent children images

A SAILING coach and ex-biology teacher at a top private school has been arrested on suspicion of distributing indecent images of children.Read

Age no barrier for Wirral Grammar School for boys tutor aged 74

A MERSEYSIDE school has described a teacher as “a national treasure” after chalking up 50 years’ service at the age of 74.Read

Reprieve for Liverpool schools facing bills for third party activities

FEARS city schools would be forced to turn away community groups because they face a bill of tens of thousands just for opening up have been averted for at least a year.Read

Liverpool’s Blue Coat Grammar School sack assistant headteacher over conduct with pupil

AN ASSISTANT headteacher at Liverpool’s prestigious Blue Coat grammar school has been sacked over an inappropriate relationship with an A-Level student.Read

Fears Liverpool and Wirral primary school rebuilding plans will be hit by Government cuts

A MULTI-MILLION pound revamp of ageing Liverpool primary schools has been put on hold amid fears it will be the next victim of Government education cuts.Read

Liverpool pupils to lobby government in bid for school rebuild U-turn

DEVASTATED pupils at ageing Liverpool schools no longer being rebuilt will lead a delegation hoping to force a Government U-turn.Read

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‘Black’ day for Liverpool education as Tories and Lib Dems scrap £350m school rebuilding programme

MORE than 50 ageing schools across Merseyside had their dreams of new classrooms shattered yesterday, when the Government axed a flagship £55bn rebuilding scheme.Read

Devastation as Liverpool’s £350m schools revamp scrapped by Tory-Lib Dem coalition

LIVERPOOL has been told to scrap plans for 26 schools to be rebuilt or completely modernised under Building Schools for the Future.Read

Wirral schools revamp axe has ‘dashed dreams of pupils’

A NEW academy which had been set to replace two Wirral schools labelled among the UK’s worst is among the victims of the shelved Building Schools For the Future projects.Read

£150m St Helens school revamp in tatters

A PLANNED £150m overhaul of secondary schools in St Helens is also in tatters.Read

Rising number of Wirral schools plunged into debt

A RISING number of Wirral schools have been plunged into the red, with some debts reaching £250,000.Read

Suspended Calday Grange Grammar headteacher Andrew Hall to learn his fate

THE fate of a headteacher suspended from a top Merseyside school will be decided by a disciplinary panel of governors, the Daily Post can reveal.Read

Lecturers and students at Bootle’s Hugh Baird don Chancellor masks in funding protest

HUNDREDS of Merseyside lecturers and students did the conga and donned masks of Chancellor George Osborne to protest about future funding cuts.Read