The Oliver King Foundation, a charity dedicated to preventing deaths from sudden cardiac arrest, has written to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, calling for defibrillator training to be provided to teachers and school staff across England. Mark King OBE, founder of the Oliver King Foundation, acknowledged the government’s commitment to supplying ... Read More...
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A pair of Liverpool students have scored in the top 3.5% for GCSE Maths. The talented students from South Liverpool academy ELSA, which is launching next month under its new name of The Academy of St Nicholas, achieved a 9 under the new grading system. Student Anthony Li achieved a prestigious grade ... Read More...
A-level results in Liverpool have shown an improvement, according to provisional figures. Grades from the schools which have reported their results to Liverpool City Council so far show that 92% have seen an improvement in their average grade score. Of particular note was the School Improvement Liverpool Community Languages Project where 31 of ... Read More...
Housebuilders must do more to sell the industry’s opportunities to young people as it faces a “crying need to recruit” workers. The North West managing director of Bellway Homes spoke out about the construction sector’s needs to engage more with schools during a panel discussion in Knowsley yesterday (3 May). David Williams ... Read More...
Community groups, schools and colleges could help play a part in putting Liverpool’s St Johns Market “back on the map,” according to its new manager. Colin McCrory has recently taken the helm at the new-look indoor market having spent the past 25 years running shopping centres, and says there are “opportunities ... Read More...
A new ‘kitchen garden’ could be created on land around Exhibition Centre Liverpool (ECL) to provide the community with an area for education and gardening skills. The garden would be managed by the multi-faith organisation Faiths4Change, which was launched in 2004 to facilitate volunteer-led environmental projects, along with members of the ... Read More...
A Royal Court Liverpool play about gun crime will tour community venues across the North West thanks to a funding boost. Arts Council England has awarded £42,127 to the Royal Court Trust through its Strategic Touring programme to support the show ‘Terriers’, which has also received backing from Merseyside Police. The police ... Read More...
City centre spaces from Bold Street to the Baltic Triangle could be turned into community allotments as part of a new scheme. The ‘My-City Allotment (Bluegreen Liverpool)’ project has been picked to receive a share of funding from the 5p carrier bag charge, which was launched last year, to help it ... Read More...
Liverpool’s World Museum will celebrate British astronaut Tim Peake’s launch into space today (15 December), as it hosts a day of events for 300 primary school children. The city venue was previously selected as one of 20 centres across the UK to host the Destination Space education programme - a space-themed ... Read More...