Students first in country to go for diplomas
ALL eyes will be on Furness in September when it takes a pivotal role in the launch of a brand new qualification. Just 10 areas nationally, including Furness, will deliver all five of the first diploma courses from 2008.
This months Learning ssupplement
The most recent Learning supplement in full
View Learning in an e-edition format
View our first Learning supplement just as it was published in an e-edition format which allows you to browse the pages just as you would do with the printed product
Learning launch slideshow
Pictures from the launch of the Evening Mail's Learning magazine at Furness College.
Just what the script writer ordered
HIS scripts have won awards and pulled in millions of TV viewers for some of Britain’s best loved serial dramas.
Junior newshounds visit the Mail
Budding journalists from South Walney Junior School visited the Evening Mail offices to get some tips for their own South Walney Star.
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Happy tots bounce around for charity
TOTS have combined fitness and fundraising with great success. Children at the Happy Tots Day Nursery, in Barrow, took part in a sponsored bounce for charity.
Positive first steps forward
Chris Brooksbank, headteacher at Flookburgh CE Primary School, writes about the importance of positive thinking in education.
Engineering project is a Barrow first
FURNESS is embarking on an engineering education scheme that will be the first of its kind in the country. The Barrow Engineering Project gets fully underway in secondary schools and colleges this September.
Workers go back to school
HUNDREDS of BAE Systems workers recently jumped at the chance to further their skills as National Learning at Work Day came to the shipyard.
Radio has pupils walking on air
FURNESS young people are to hit the airwaves with a dynamic new radio project.
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