Education Today (UK)

1 month ago | education-today.co.uk | Charlotte Westwood

Educational travel provider Ottimi has supported a Yorkshire primary school with a free enrichment trip for its Year 6 students, designed to build confidence and spark curiosity ahead of their transition to secondary education.

1 month ago | education-today.co.uk | Charlotte Westwood

UK school trips are being reshaped by curriculum pressure and cost scrutiny, with new figures revealing a rise in subject-linked travel over general ‘cultural enrichment’. According to the 2025 School Trip Index, from the UK’s largest educational travel group PGL Beyond, one in two school trips is now directly tied to a core subject, with modern foreign languages and history accounting for almost half (46 per cent) of all travel bookings made by UK schools.

1 month ago | education-today.co.uk | Charlotte Westwood

Students from Haberdashers’ Boys’ School have been awarded the Excellence Award at the 2025 VEX Robotics World Championship in Dallas, Texas – a global competition which saw over 50 countries represented. The award celebrates the UK team’s ability to apply engineering principles, collaborate under pressure, and communicate their technical thinking – skills developed through their school’s integration of robotics and project-based learning.

1 month ago | education-today.co.uk | Charlotte Westwood

BAM UK & Ireland has officially started construction on the c.£54m redevelopment of Cornwall College St Austell. The project has already generated over £1.1 million in local social and economic value, supporting several local residents into new employment and providing apprentices with valuable on-site experience.

1 month ago | education-today.co.uk | Charlotte Westwood

16 per cent of teachers report regularly parting with their own money to buy food or snacks for kids, while over a quarter (27 per cent) have given away food they personally brought in for their own snacks or meals. A new report launched today,Hungry to Learn: The impact of morning hunger on our schoolchildren, reveals the extreme lengths teachers are going to feed hungry children at school; a sign of the increased pressures schools and families are facing when it comes to food poverty.