University praised for attracting state school pupils

University of Southampton

7:00am Tuesday 18th June 2013

THE University of Southampton has been praised for opening its doors to state school students – in stark contrast to other leading institutions.

College near Winchester teams up with Hampshire Fare

Left to right: Tim Jackson, Sparsholt College principal, Tracy Nash, Hampshire Fare commercial manager and Hampshire Fare chairman Michael Wright.

2:00pm Monday 17th June 2013

A WINCHESTER college has teamed up with Hampshire Fare for a new partnership.

Bus company launches engineering apprenticeships for Winchester youngsters

Left to right: Tom Large, Matt Cunningham, Richard Alexander, Daniel Pearce, Alec Bradley.

9:50am Monday 17th June 2013

STAGECOACH South is giving Winchester youngsters the chance to win an apprenticeship with the company.

Film critic shares love of cinema with pupils

Mark Kermode speaking to the children

11:35am Friday 14th June 2013

FILM critic Mark Kermode has revealed that he once stormed out of a movie – because a cat was being illtreated on screen.

Teachers concerned about GCSE revamp

Students turned in Wiltshire highest ever performance for achieving five or more good GCSE grades

1:53pm Tuesday 11th June 2013

TEACHERS in Southampton say they are concerned that the proposed reform of GCSEs will disadvantage pupils.

Example in Twitter row with Southampton students

Example

4:33pm Tuesday 11th June 2013

SINGER and rapper Example has hit back at students who criticised his no show at their graduation ball with a Twitter tirade.

New head named for Winchester primary school

Green website logo for Hampshire Chronicle

12:15pm Tuesday 11th June 2013

THE NEW headteacher of a Winchester primary school has been named.

Hundreds of students celebrate with graduation ball

Hundreds of students celebrate with graduation ball

7:28am Tuesday 11th June 2013

HUNDREDS of students added the finishing touches to their student careers by stepping out in style for the annual University of Southampton graduation ball.

Expansion plans for school

Southern Daily Echo

11:10am Monday 10th June 2013

PLANS to expand a primary school have received the green light.

University of Winchester shoots up the rankings table

Student teachers, staff and union activists assembled at the main entrance at the University of Winchester for the arrival of schools minister, Nick Gibb MP

9:29am Monday 10th June 2013

THE University of Winchester has shot up in the latest university rankings guide.

Crumbling school sports hall a threat to young basketball winners

NOWHERE TO TRAIN: The basketball team

4:00pm Thursday 6th June 2013

YOUNG Hampshire basketball stars fear they may have to stop playing unless their school’s crumbling sports hall is rebuilt.

Outstanding Whiteley Primary School has lots to smile about

WELL DONE: Head teacher Lesley Pennington and some of her pupils

4:10pm Thursday 6th June 2013

IT does not get any better than education at Whitley primary school.

Hair and beauty show at Fareham College

Hair and beauty show at Fareham College

4:20pm Thursday 6th June 2013

IT was a hair-raising experience for students at Fareham College’s annual Hair and Beauty Showcase, pictured.

Course helps Redbridge Community School pupils build a bright future

Southern Daily Echo

4:20pm Thursday 6th June 2013

PUPILS at a Southampton school have begun a two year programme using the construction industry as a focus to develop maths and English along with employability skills.

Southampton students hit by high living costs

Students' Carnage night passes without a hitch

1:30pm Tuesday 4th June 2013

IF PARENTS wonder where their offspring’s student loans disappear to when they come to study in Southampton, all has now been revealed.

Theology professor at University of Winchester to give inaugural lecture

Student teachers, staff and union activists assembled at the main entrance at the University of Winchester for the arrival of schools minister, Nick Gibb MP

4:08pm Monday 3rd June 2013

A THEOLOGY professor at a Hampshire university is giving his inaugural lecture on Wednesday June 5.

Postgraduate of the year award

Dario Carugo, right

11:56am Monday 3rd June 2013

A SOUTHAMPTON student has scooped a prestigious national award.

TV licence refund

More than 1000 Wirral TV viewers caught without licence

11:02am Monday 3rd June 2013

AS Southampton’s students prepare to move back home for the summer, they may be able to claim back some extra cash.

Former head of OFSTED to be keynote speaker

Zenna Atkins

1:16pm Sunday 2nd June 2013

A FORMER chairman of Ofsted is the keynote speaker at a conference being staged in Southampton on the latest legal developments facing schools that are converting into academies.

Southampton school marks centenary

Southern Daily Echo

1:10pm Wednesday 29th May 2013

FORMER staff and pupils at a Southampton school are being urged to help celebrate its centenary.

Hampshire teacher denies child sex images charge

Southern Daily Echo

5:08pm Tuesday 28th May 2013

A former assistant headteacher has pleaded not guilty to indecent exposure and possessing sexual images of children.

Kings' School students raise money for World War One Morn Hill project

Kings' School students raise money for World War One Morn Hill project

11:24am Monday 27th May 2013

PUPILS from Kings’ School, Winchester, have become so immersed in the city’s World War One centenary project that they have raised money for it.

Prestigious award for city scientist

Prestigious award for city scientist

11:21am Friday 24th May 2013

A SOUTHAMPTON scientist has received a prestigious award for his contribution to research in bone disease.

MP issues ultimatum to school at centre of sex abuse claims

Inquiry launched into school at centre of sex abuse allegations

1:00pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

A HAMPSHIRE MP today issued an ultimatum to leaders of a Romsey school at the centre of sex abuse claims following a damning report.

School still 'failing to protect children', report finds

Stanbridge Earls School

10:04am Thursday 23rd May 2013

THE Hampshire special school at the centre of shocking sex abuse accusations is still failing to protect children properly, a damning report reveals today.

Southampton teacher attempts record-breaking tandem cycle ride

The Tandem Teachers: David Cooper, left, and brother-in-law Tom Wilkinson

8:00am Tuesday 21st May 2013

SOUTHAMPTON science teacher, David Cooper, 28, and his brother-in-law, maths teacher Tom Wilkinson, 36 are set to make a record breaking attempt to ride the ‘Side to Side’ from Pembroke to Great Yarmouth; Britain’s widest stretch.

Behind the scenes at 'crumbling' school

Head teacher Susan Trigger outside a dilapidated outbuilding

12:51pm Friday 17th May 2013

A HEADTEACHER has listed a catalogue of devastating problems facing a crumbling Hampshire school.

Head's 'devastation' after school misses out on millions again

Bitterne Park Schoo, Southampton

4:00am Friday 17th May 2013

A MULTI-million pound scheme to rebuild a crumbling Southampton school has been axed – for a second time.

University wins appeal after critical report

University of Southampton

4:25pm Friday 17th May 2013

THE watchdog for higher education is set to revisit the University of Southampton after the institution successfully appealed against a previous critical report.

Winchester school bursar in court today on fraud charge

Green website logo for Hampshire Chronicle

2:00pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

A FORMER senior manager at a Winchester special school has appeared at crown court accused of fiddling work timesheets.

Right up their street

A FLYING START: To the street theatre workshop

2:00pm Tuesday 14th May 2013

YOUNGSTERS from Eastleigh schools across showcased their performance skills at a theatre workshop.

Uni unveils new £25m campus vision

An artist's impression of the new Southampton Solent new teaching hub.

12:30pm Monday 13th May 2013

Southampton Solent University has unveiled the bold look for the new teaching hub at its main campus.

Search for best lollipop person in Hampshire

The crossing patrol in Carpenders Avenue.

12:18pm Friday 10th May 2013

WINCHESTER schoolchildren are encouraged to find their diamond in the rough.

Hampshire college's new building in line for excellence award

Architect's impression of the Nobel Building, part of a £4.2m investment

2:00pm Monday 6th May 2013

LIGHT, airy classrooms, solar panels and a rainwater harvesting system will be the setting for students at Barton Peveril College from September.

Head comes out fighting after Ofsted deems school 'inadequate'

Head teacher Billy Davies helping some of the pupils learn their times tables.

3:57pm Friday 3rd May 2013

“CHILDREN only get one chance at an education, and it has got to be the best.”

Glowing Ofsted report for Chamberlayne College, Southampton

Pupils and head teacher Ewan Scott celebrate Chamberlayne College of the Arts' Ofsted success.

2:30pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

WITH rocketing GCSE results and now an Ofsted report rating it as good, Chamberlayne College for the Arts can rightly claim to have shaken off its past.

Winchester teenager in England call-up

St Swithun's sports scholar Emily Sambrook Smith has been selected to play in the England A team.

9:36am Thursday 2nd May 2013

A TEENAGER from Winchester has been called up to play for England's lacrosse U19 squad when it tours Canada this summer.

21 computers stolen from college

Barton Peveril College, Eastleigh

10:00am Wednesday 1st May 2013

BURGLARS have stolen 21 computers from a Hampshire college.

What are your children sending on their phones?

A girl taking a picture of herself on her mobile phone. Photograph posed by model

12:03pm Monday 29th April 2013

SENDING sexually explicit pictures via mobile phones is part of everyday life for children in Hampshire, a Daily Echo investigation has found.

Pizza the action: Winchester schoolchildren get hands-on at Jamie Oliver's restaurant

Pupils from Kings' School visit Union Jack's to learn how to make pizza

4:48pm Thursday 25th April 2013

WINCHESTER children put their creative juices to good use last week.

Another staff member quits sex scandal school

Stanbridge Earls School

5:55pm Monday 22nd April 2013

ANOTHER senior member of staff at the Hampshire special school facing shocking sex abuse claims has resigned, it has been revealed.

Stonehenge used thousands of years earlier than thought

Stonehenge older than experts realised

12:00am Friday 19th April 2013

Human beings were occupying Stonehenge thousands of years earlier than previously thought, it has been revealed.

Head resigns from school at centre of sex abuse claims

Stanbridge Earls school

4:19pm Thursday 18th April 2013

THE headmaster of a controversial school at the centre of shocking sex abuse claims has today resigned.

Good progress for Redlands Primary School in Ofsted

Pupils at Redlands Primary School with head teacher Kevin Harcombe

2:00pm Wednesday 17th April 2013

“IT HAS been tested out and found to be the real deal.”

Governor stands down from scandal hit school

Stanbridge Earls school

4:00am Thursday 11th April 2013

A SECOND governor of a Hampshire special school at the heart of sex abuse allegations has stepped down.

Southampton college students prepare for a trip of a lifetime

ADVENTURE: The St Mary's College students

2:50pm Monday 8th April 2013

IT is a trip of a lifetime. Biology students at St Mary’s College Southampton are being whisked away on a two-week trip to Madagascar.

Hampshire students join prisoners for convicts play

DRAMA STUDENTS: From the University of Winchester

12:50pm Monday 8th April 2013

STUDENTS are teaming up with Hampshire prisoners to stage a play about a penal colony.

Parents back school at centre of sex abuse claims

Stanbridge Earls School

7:24am Friday 5th April 2013

PARENTS have formed a campaign group to back a special school at the centre of sex abuse claims.

TV role for Winchester seamstress

Green website logo for Hampshire Chronicle

4:51pm Tuesday 2nd April 2013

A WINCHESTER seamstress is to be a judge on a new television competition.

Sex scandal school could be closed

Stanbridge Earls School.

4:04pm Wednesday 27th March 2013

A SCHOOL at the centre of shocking sex abuse allegations is facing a new threat of closure, it has been revealed today.

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