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Salford Champions Student Entrepreneurs The University of Salford has won funding to appoint its own Enterprise Champion, who will help to turn the ideas of students and graduates into viable business opportunities. It is one of only five universities in the North West to secure financial backing from the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE) and North West Development Agency (NWDA). The Enterprise Champion will offer encouragement, guidance and practical support to students and graduates who possess an entrepr... ( Click for More Information ) Exam Chiefs Fail Firm Responsible for... This year's Sats results delays have cost ETS Europe its contract with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). Schoolch... A-level Results Awaited Thousands of students across England and Wales are today awaiting their A-level results amid fresh concerns about the exams gettin... Website Advice is Big Hit with... A website put together by Salford City Council and its partners to help students find further education or training has had around... New Technology to Improve Wind Farm... Researchers at the University of Salford have begun working on a device to ensure that wind farms are sited in the places where th... National Award for Salford Psychology Technician A Salford University psychology technician has scooped a national award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to the stud... Foreign Students Made to Give Fingerprints New immigration guidelines will force international students attending UK universities to provide the government with their finger... Salford University: Forget Text Messages –... A piece of the original telegraph cable that carried the first messages between Europe and America will be on show at a special ev... Foreign Students to Have Extended UK... Foreign students are to be allowed to stay in the UK for an additional year after finishing their studies, immigration minister Li... Special Needs Teaching Receives £10m Boost Special needs co-ordinators are to receive funding of £10m per year, education minister Lord Adonis has announced. The co-ordina... Salford Spearhead Launch of £3m Project... A £3m project spearheaded by the University of Salford could transform the way that regeneration professionals operate, according ... “Don’t Ignore Exam Failure,” Urges Mental... A top psychologist at Salford University is urging disappointed A level students not to “bury their head in the sand”, when it com... Noise Professor Goes Back to the... What does a baby hear from inside the womb? Why does a teenage boy’s voice break? And what was it about Barry White’s charismati... Chicken Vid Tops a Great Year... It’s been a year of massive achievements for Salford’s BA (Hons) advertising students with award wins in every year of the course ... Hollywood Composer Graduates from Salford A composer who created the scores for films featuring stars like Christopher Lee and Richard E Grant has just graduated from the U... Research Could Save Lives of 5%... Research on ovine parasite Toxoplasma gondii, carried out at the University of Salford, could have a significant economic impact o... Pioneering Carbon Trading Scheme to Promote... Carbon emissions from state schools are to be included in a pioneering carbon trading scheme for local authorities from April 2010... Overseas Study Brings its Rewards for... A former electronics engineer and MBA student; who travelled from India to study in Salford, will return home as Assistant Vice-Pr... Building Sites Are Not Summer Playgrounds"... As the school holiday approaches the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning North West children, parents and teachers to be ... Top Brass for Military Graduates The next Trooping the Colour at Buckingham Palace will have a distinctly northern feel to it, with 45 military band musicians grad... Primrose Hill Primary School blooms in... Primrose Hill Community Primary School and Children’s Centre, Ordsall, Salford was blossoming with excitement as the new state-of-... Forces to be Given Free Education Service personnel are to be given free university education, under plans to be unveiled this week. The News of the World reveale... Teachers to Get Search Powers Ministers have backed a new report recommending that teachers are given the power to search pupils for drugs and alcohol. Childre... Private School Fees up 40... Private school fees have soared by over 40 per cent over the last five years, according to research by Halifax Financial Services.... Salford University Signs Partnership with BBC The University of Salford is the first higher education institution in Greater Manchester to sign a partnership agreement with the... Teenage Girls Should Call the Shots... A sex education expert at Salford University will be speaking at a conference next week (Friday 18 July) warning that teenage girl... Hi-octane Design for Salford Student Despite only being in the first year of her course, Salford University student Gemma Wainwright is already using her design skills... New Dean to Drive Salford’s Health... The University of Salford has appointed a new Executive Dean for its Faculty of Health & Social Care – which is one of the largest... School Meals Under Threat School meals will either soar in price of vanish altogether without significant extra government funding, the Times reports. San... Music Journalist John Robb to Teach... The University of Salford has appointed DJ, musician, author and journalist John Robb as a Visiting Fellow in the School of Media,... From Air Hostess to Master of... Former air hostess Kellyanne Boyce has swapped safety instructions and sick bags for test tubes and tapeworms. Despite leaving sch... Salfords Next Generation Cash Boost More than £130 million could be spent on transforming Salford's primary schools - the largest single investment in primary educati... A-levels' Difficulty 'inconsistent' Leading science groups have expressed concern at research finding that some A-levels are harder to obtain the highest grades in. R... Study Reveals Physics Teacher Shortage Applications to train as a physics teacher have fallen by more than a quarter (27 per cent) since 2005, a new report has warned. T... Children Helped to Understand the Hidden... Children in Salford are being warned about the dangers of alcohol misuse by an education drive in primary schools across the city ... Video Diary Student’s Aimhigher Success Danielle Simpson, who made a video diary all about her student life at Salford, has won the title of Higher Education Learner in S... Teamwork Lessons from Tsunami Health Expert A nurse who brought together medics in the aftermath of the Boxing Day Tsunami is to address a conference being held at the Univer... Inspiring Tomorrow’s Psychologists Today A pilot scheme introducing young people to psychology as a future career option has been deemed a success by academics at the Univ... Salford Pupils Unite to Beat... As a national survey shows that 55% of the UK’s young people have experienced bullying, over 100 pupils from Salford are coming to... Salford Professor Investigates Nasty Noises Recent research into sounds that drive people crazy ranks screeching blackboards well below several other sounds, like vomiting. P... CBI Calls for Diploma Rethink Business leaders have called for a rethink on government plans for new academic diplomas that could replace A-levels. The CBI said... Salford Students to Get Scary Visit... When The Albion High School students meet a fully tattooed giant named The Scary Guy on June 19th, it will be a day they will neve... The Times Profile on University of... In the last five years, Salford has begun to slip below some of the new universities in The Times League Table. But consistently ... No Grudge as Quizmaster Gets Big... An IT technician at the University of Salford is all set to get his big break in the world of TV -thanks to a quiz show that he de... 2008 Rolls-Royce Science Prize Winner -... St Anne’s Primary School, based in Corkey, Northern Ireland, has won the 2008 Rolls-Royce Science Prize for its creative and hands... Creative School is Top of the... A Salford school is part of a national million pound learning programme after being named one of the most creative schools in the ... London 2012 Education Programme: Paralympic Handover... The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today (June 16) formally invited schools, colleg... Salford Scheme to Make Chinese Students... Salford University is leading a major project to make Chinese students studying in the UK more entrepreneurial – and therefore mor... Think-tank Criticises Exam System Ministers have defended the British education system after a report criticised the government for denying state school pupils the ... Salford Graduates’ MTV Video Success Salford media graduate Nic Jackson is celebrating the national success of his latest music video for Marple rock band The Maple St... Displaying Education Items 1 - 50 of 50