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It’s never too late to learn

DIGITAL technology is like caffeine – once you’ve got used to the stimulant, you can’t imagine life without it.Read

Play which speaks the language of friendship

LOOKING For Yoghurt, the play upon which the game was based, is an international project bringing together actors and teams from the UK, Korea and Japan.Read

Rubery children create computer game

COMPUTER games have long been held up as the prime example of children wasting time but a project in Birmingham has been showing how youngsters can learn from them.Read

Birmingham colleges battle for cash boost

D-DAY looms tomorrow for West Midlands colleges facing the unthinkable prospect of missing out on a massive cash lifeline.Read

Children get to design a poster for Wind In The Willows

THE timeless adventures of Toad, Mole, Ratty and Badger are set to enchant a whole new generation of wide-eyed children when panto fever returns to Birmingham.Read

A taste of real food inspires Midlands' young cooks

FORGET liver and onions and boiled beef and carrots. Schoolchildren are being encouraged to cook up new dishes full of Eastern Promise.Read

Shakespeare comedy tours schools and delights youngsters

MORE than 100 children are shouting ‘they are over there’ and pointing madly towards the back of the school hall.Read

More kids taught in too-big classes

GROWING numbers of infant-school pupils are being taught in classes bigger than the legal limit of 30, new statistics show.Read

Young readers putting age issues under the spotlight

MORE than 120 youngsters from five Birmingham schools will today lock horns to debate whether or not books should carry recommended ages on their covers.Read

Young readers put age issues under the spotlight

MORE than 120 youngsters from five Birmingham schools will today lock horns to debate whether or not books should carry recommended ages on their covers.Read

Young readers put age issues under the spotlight

MORE than 120 youngsters from five Birmingham schools will today lock horns to debate whether or not books should carry recommended ages on their covers.Read

Transformed by new tech

PRIMARY school teacher Jenny Lucas has been in the job for only 18 months – but that makes her perfectly placed to observe the pace of technology rushing through education.Read

Failed by schools

BRIGHT pupils educated in England’s most deprived schools do worse in their GCSEs, education experts have said.Read

Asthma children miss out

CHILDREN with asthma are missing out on school trips and having difficulties joining in with lessons, a charity has warned.Read

Planting the seed for exam success

PREPARING for SATs exams may put schools under pressure but one class from Great Barr ensured it found a fun way to do its revision.Read

Blind can learn from bats, expert tells Birmingham students

IT is well known that bats and dolphins use sonar for navigation – but this method of using sound to identify objects is also the latest area for research and teaching for people who are blind and partially sighted.Read

Birmingham aid worker discovers value of education in South America

SEX education in British schools has long been a cause for discussion but when Birmingham-based volunteer development officer Anna Burden visited South America she discovered it is a message being hammered home to pupils.Read

All aboard to develop a learning structure

THE cook bus is one of five across the country visiting schools and aiming to help them develop their teaching programme says Siobhan Haughey, senior food teacher.Read

Healthy food culture

FOOD for Life is about more than simply the cook bus. A wide-ranging initiative, it aims to support a healthy food culture in schools and in the community.Read

Just the ticket for kids to cook

SHANE Higgs is a dab hand in the kitchen. The 15-year-old can rustle up a mean curry, a colourful stir fry or a choice of soups.Read