Education

The cream of the county’s educational talent gathered in Brighton on Wednesday (June 13) for the Sussex Teacher of the Year Awards.

Amber Rudd MP visited Glyne Gap School on Friday 25 May, and was given a tour of the school and its fantastic new playground.

Level 4 Beauty Therapy students at Sussex Coast College Hastings raised over £900 for Breast Cancer Now during a fundraising event last month.

A public consultation on proposals to reduce the role of the county’s music service has been launched.

Millions of pounds of funding has been secured for improvement work at Rye College.

Three headteachers at schools in Battle have provided support for a campaign to lower the speed limit in the town to 20mph.

The Trustees of Rye Academy Trust have confirmed their intention to close Rye Studio School at the end of August 2018.

Supporters of the Pestalozzi International Village Trust are being offered the opportunity to become part of a special photographic mosaic as the Sussex-based charity celebrates the achievements of its former students.

Sussex Coast College is one of ten colleges in the South East set to teach the new T Levels.

Pupils at the Battle Abbey Prep School in Bexhill enjoyed celebrating the Royal Wedding.

Pupils and staff at Netherfield School, in Battle, have celebrated an Ofsted report which rated the school as ‘good’.

School children from Hastings and Rother are among 7,000 youngsters in the south east to benefit from rail safety and information sessions.

The merger between Sussex Coast College Hastings and Sussex Downs College has now been completed.

Thousands of young people across Sussex are no doubt frantically revising ahead of sitting their GCSE or A-Level exams this summer.

Parents in East Sussex will soon be finding out whether their child has been given a place at one of their preferred choices of primary school.

A controversial campaign to tackle poor school attendance in East Sussex has led to ‘early signs of improvement’, according to the county council.

The University of Sussex adds £343 million a year to the economies of Brighton & Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex, says a new independent report.

A specialist school with a capacity of five children could open on the site of a former primary school in Mountfield in September, subject to Ofsted registration.

Pupils and staff at Silverdale Primary Academy took part in a special fun Awareness Day last week to raised £304.50 for the Down Syndrome Awareness Association.

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