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University of Birmingham to charge students £9,000 per year Mar 25 2011

THE University of Birmingham has become the latest Midland university to charge students £9,000-a-year tuition fees.Read

Aston University to charge top rate of tuition fees Mar 25 2011

Students at a Birmingham university could face tuition fees of £9,000 a year after it announced it was charging the highest fee possible.Read

Students offered university places in Holland at a fraction of UK tuition fees Mar 22 2011

A Dutch university is offering students across a cheaper alternative to rising tuition fees across the UK.Read

5,200 pupils expelled or suspended from Birmingham and Sandwell schools Mar 21 2011

Nearly 30 pupils a day are being expelled or suspended in Birmingham and Sandwell because of assaults or abuse hurled at school staff or other pupils, it can be revealed.Read

Plans unveiled for first phase of new University College Birmingham campus Mar 18 2011

The first phase of University College Birmingham’s (UCB) plans to build a new campus on the edge of the Jewellery Quarter has been unveiled.Read

Moseley School receives damning Ofsted report Mar 17 2011

A Birmingham school has been ordered to improve following a damning report by education watchdog Ofsted.Read

Funding slashed for universities in West Midlands Mar 17 2011

All universities in the West Midlands will see their funding slashed for the next academic year, official figures show.Read

Slade's Noddy Holder goes back to school to teach Walsall teenagers Mar 11 2011

Slade legend Noddy Holder faced his toughest audience yet when he had to teach a class full of teenagers in his home town of Walsall.Read

KPMG’s £20k offer to school leavers to study accountancy at University of Birmingham Mar 11 2011

A top accountancy firm is offering to pay school leavers up to £20,000 to study at the University of Birmingham, it has been revealed.Read

Julie's job to oversee the clamour for school places in Birmingham Mar 07 2011

Education Correspondent Kat Keogh meets the woman facing the unenviable task of finding school places for 13,500 children in Europe’s largest education authority.Read

Sandwell leader snubs Gove over building schools for future discussions Mar 04 2011

Black Country council chiefs are to reject demands that they travel to London to explain why a £138 million school building scheme should go ahead.Read

Sandwell told to make new bid for £138m schools building programme Mar 03 2011

Education chiefs in Sandwell have been given until April 11 to explain why a £138 million school building scheme should go ahead after all.Read

Gove promises 'open mind' over Building Schools for the Future rethink Mar 02 2011

Education Secretary Michael Gove has promised to keep an "open mind" as he reconsiders the future of school building projects in six council areas, including Sandwell, following last month's High Court ruling against him.Read

Teacher training information event comes to Birmingham Mar 02 2011

Hundreds of people looking for a career change are expected to flock to two-day teaching training event in Birmingham starting on Friday.Read

Almost 70 per cent of Birmingham pupils to get first choice of school Mar 01 2011

Almost 70 per cent of Birmingham pupils have been offered their first preference of secondary school, council figures show.Read

Birmingham agency says scrapping EMA is pricing youths out of training Feb 25 2011

The head of a Birmingham youth training agency has accused the Government of “pricing young people out of training” by axing the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).Read

Birmingham schools in rush to become academies Feb 25 2011

Nearly 20 Birmingham City Council staff are having to deal with applications from schools wishing to become academies, the authority’s education chief has revealed.Read

Hopes lifted at Wednesbury school hit by scrapping of BSF Feb 19 2011

Kat Keogh talks to a Sandwell headteacher who says the Government has a chance to “put things right” over the Building Schools for the Future controversy. Read

Sandwell Council urges schools minister Gove to keep promise to visit area Feb 14 2011

A West Midlands council which won a legal victory against Michael Gove's decision to scrap their school rebuilding projects has urged the minister to keep a promise to visit the area.Read

Sandwell schools win Building Schools for the Future case Feb 11 2011

Six councils, including Sandwell, have won their High Court challenge over the Government's decision to scrap school building projects.Read

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