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Unemployed students offered a lifeline by Aston University

JOBLESS students who have fallen victim to the recession since graduating from a Birmingham university are being offered a helping hand with paid work to tide them over the coming months.Read

Birmingham City University working with a prison

A UNIVERSITY in Birmingham has a new learning agreement well and truly under lock and key!Read

Sixth form centre to be built at Bordesley Green

A NEW £6 million sixth form centre is to be built in Birmingham to provide valuable post-16 school places for girls.Read

Cancer tragedy crossing warden sends lollipop to every pupil at Birmingham school

SCHOOL lollipop man Dave Chambers still had a special thought for the children he helped cross the road despite the shock of being diagnosed with cancer.Read

Cancer tragedy crossing warden sends lollipop to every pupil at Birmingham school

SCHOOL lollipop man Dave Chambers still had a special thought for the children he helped cross the road despite the shock of being diagnosed with cancer.Read

Harborne Academy scheme 'on target'

A SHORTLIST of interested sponsors has been drawn up in a bid to get a much-delayed Birmingham academy off the ground.Read

Sparkbrook's school's creative way to welcome newcomers

A COLOURFUL mosaic has been helping newly-arrived pupils from the Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan settle into their Birmingham school.Read

Schools minister announces 400 extra sixth-form places for Birmingham

MORE than 400 extra places are to be created in school sixth forms and further education colleges in Birmingham as part of the Government’s pledge to provide learning for every 16- and 17-year-old who wants to stay in education.Read

Schools minister announces 400 extra sixth-form places for Birmingham

MORE than 400 extra places are to be created in school sixth forms and further education colleges in Birmingham as part of the Government’s pledge to provide learning for every 16- and 17-year-old who wants to stay in education.Read

St Giles Hospice in 'Mammoth Coffee Morning' appeal

GET the kettle on and support a worthwhile cause!Read

Schools minister announces 400 extra sixth-form places for Birmingham

MORE than 400 extra places are to be created in school sixth forms and further education colleges in Birmingham as part of the Government’s pledge to provide learning for every 16- and 17-year-old who wants to stay in education.Read

School of the Week: St Matthew’s CE Primary, Nechells

CHILDREN are leading The Good Life at an inner-city primary school in Birmingham.Read

Birmingham awarded £5m slice of Govt fund to provide extra school activities

BEFORE and after-school activities in Birmingham have received a Government boost of more than £5 million.Read

Medallist visits Birmingham school to spread healthy eating message

A HEALTHY diet is the best way to becoming a healthy athlete.Read

Medallist visits Birmingham school to spread healthy eating message

A HEALTHY diet is the best way to becoming a healthy athlete.Read

Vandals wreck Sutton Coldfield infants school

VANDALS have gone on a wrecking spree at a Birmingham infant school, smashing up an outdoor classroom and garden and flooding a classroom.Read

Ex-England star John Barnes visits Castle Vale school to congratulate competition winner schoolgirl

FORMER England football legend John Barnes ‘scored’ another superb goal when he blew the final whistle on a vital scheme to provide much-needed sports facilities for children in Africa.Read

Lost world of industrialist Matthew Boulton revealed in new book

PART of Birmingham’s lost heritage has been captured in a book about a lesser-known chapter in the life of city industrial pioneer, Matthew Boulton.Read

Holocaust survivor Susi Bechhofer gives talk to Perry Barr pupils

PUPILS at a Birmingham school learned first hand about the horrors of the Holocaust when they were visited by a survivor of the Nazis’ efforts to exterminate all Jews during the 1930s and 40s.Read

Birmingham will need 50 new primary schools because of the predicted the birth rate rise

EDUCATION chiefs in Birmingham today warned of a ticking timebomb with the equivalent of 50 new primary schools needed in ten years’ time due to a projected relentless rise in the birth rate.Read

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Tony Collins joined the Birmingham Mail in 1980.After working in a couple of the Mail's district offices, he became Education Correspondent in 1994. Being regarded as something of a Groucho Marx lookalike, it is no surprise that he is also the Mail's 'Mr Comedy', responsible for interviews with many of our top comics.

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