Asda in Gillingham recently delivered 10 laptops to Gillingham Primary School as part of the supermarket’s initiative to provide more than 7,000 laptops to schools across the UK to help tackle digital exclusion. …

Today,  Monday 1 March, young people across Dorset will find out which school they will be joining in September. Most students, more than 97 per cent, have been offered their first choice of …

Dorset Council has unveiled ambitious ideas to transform the St Mary’s school site near Shaftesbury, potentially providing better educational opportunities for Dorset children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). …

Councillors are to discuss whether tentative plans for a new technology college for North Dorset could be based in Gillingham. The council has received a letter from the head of a not-for-profit company …

Schools, childcare providers and colleges across Dorset are looking forward to welcoming children back in September, the education authority says. Dorset Council says it has been working with schools, early years providers and …

Shaftesbury School is celebrating record results from its A Level students this year. ‘Hard work, great teaching and learning and an individual approach’ is what Tim Farrer, Headteacher, believes is the key to …

Students in Dorset have received their  A Level results  today. Dorest Council says that advice on education, work and training, including information for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), is …

The independent Catholic school St Mary’s Shaftesbury has raised £250,000 as it fights to keep open after its closure was announced last week. The girls school announced its permanent closure and administration on …

As families across Dorset come to terms with all the uncertainties of a ‘new normal’ during lockdown, Action for Children, the country’s leading children’s charity, is seeking to give parents and children somewhere …