Liverpool Daily Post - Tag - education

The Debate: Is a university degree still good value for money?

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:30:00 GMT

DEGREES open doors as well as minds. That’s not just a catchy advertising phrase. Universities create additional value for that break into the job market, through academic and career development.

Liverpool’s only grammar school The Blue Coat will become an academy in March

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

LIVERPOOL’S only grammar school, The Blue Coat, will break free from town hall control and become a centrally funded academy from the beginning of March, it has been revealed.

Liverpool Community College students to study in Italy thanks to partnership deal with Parma cookery school

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:00:00 GMT

LIVERPOOL Community College catering students will master their trade in Italy thanks to a partnership deal with an Italian cookery school.

Wirral schools face “very difficult” time as funding levels to drop

Liverpool Daily Post — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:00:00 GMT

WIRRAL faces a drop of £9m in its education funding – equivalent to two secondary school budgets – as the number of pupils declines over the next five years.

Fresh bid to create Liverpool college linked to city’s growth as super-port

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT

A FRESH bid to create a pioneering college to support Liverpool’s growth as a super-port will be launched in the New Year.

New Brighton cinema seeks to expand choices with ambitious plans

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:50:00 GMT

MERSEYSIDE schoolchildren are the first in the UK to benefit from an unusual new education package using one of the region’s most advanced new cinemas.

Liverpool headteachers refer private finance deal Liverpool council officials negotiated without their blessing to audit watchdogs

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:00:00 GMT

ANGRY Liverpool headteachers have summoned a watchdog to investigate a controversial deal council officials negotiated without their blessing.

Comedienne Jennifer Saunders’ gesture leaves hard-up Edge Hill University students feeling ‘ab-fab’

Liverpool Daily Post — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

COMEDIENNE Jennifer Saunders has left hard-up students feeling absolutely fabulous, after pledging to let them share the proceeds from her return to campus.

Funding for repairs to local authority schools has been slashed again across Merseyside

Liverpool Daily Post — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:00:00 GMT

FUNDING for repairs to local authority schools has been slashed again across the Merseyside area, sparking fresh fears of leaking roofs and crumbling classrooms.

Merseyside primary schools’ get record results, despite league table changes

Liverpool Daily Post — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:30:00 GMT

CONTROVERSIAL late changes to league tables have failed to take the gloss off another record set of results across Merseyside primary schools.