With university places scarcer than ever and tuition fees set to treble in 12 months’ time, apprenticeships could prove an attractive alternative to higher education for school leavers. Education Correspondent Kat Keogh reportsRead
Students across Birmingham today collected their A level results. Here are some of the early statistics from some of the colleges and sixth forms in the region:Read
Thousands of A-level students have been left on tenterhooks as the official website which tells them whether their grades have earned them a university place had to be taken down because it was inundated with inquiries.Read
Schools in Birmingham and across the West Midlands could miss out on funding for a second time after the Government launched a £2 billion replacement for Building Schools for the Future.Read
After student protests over tuition fees and high-speed rail halting plans for a new campus, it’s been an eventful 12 months for Birmingham City University.Read
Hundreds of young people in Birmingham have been thrown a financial lifeline to help them stay in education – filling the void after the axe of the Educational Maintenance Allowance.Read
More than a quarter of Birmingham children have left primary school without a good grasp of being able to write and a fifth unable to read or have a basic knowledge of maths.Read
Some of Birmingham’s council-run schools have spent £1.5 million on a programme of alternative therapy techniques, including massages for children and teachers, it can be revealed.Read
As students prepare to open their A level results next month, Education Correspondent Kat Keogh looks at the chances the region’s sixth formers have of studying at a top university.Read
Education Secretary Michael Gove has launched an attack on Birmingham city council’s stewardship of its schools as he warned the city “needs many things to change”.Read
