Category: Education

Cash boost recognition of Bristol’s school places crisis

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Yesterday it emerged the city will receive a further £22.8million funding to create more new primary places

Wildlife film-making MA for future Natural History Unit stars

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The MA in wildlife film-making has been devised by UWE and the BBC’s award-winning Natural History Unit

Bristol school place applications results revealed

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Some 96% of children in Bristol will be offered a place at one of their three preferred secondary schools today, the council has confirmed

Bristol scientists discover world’s oldest love song

A bushcricket or Katydid

Scientists at Bristol University have recorded the world’s oldest love song … strummed by amorous crickets 165 million years ago

Summer schools help poor into university, Bristol study finds

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More than three quarters (76%) of the Sutton Trust summer school attendees went on to a leading university

Two more Bristol schools to become academies

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Hillfields Primary School in Fishponds and Oldbury Court Primary School, Downend, will join the Cabot Learning Federation

Bristol Cathedral primary school opts for Free School status

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The choir school, which became an 11-18 Academy in 2008, is hoping to open a primary school on its city centre site in September 2013