FAMILY MATTERS / EDUCATION
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LOCAL PUPILS CAN WALK TO SCHOOL WITH CONFIDENCE Pupils at Long Mead Community Primary School in
Tonbridge played host to Daniel Morley from Kent Fire & Rescue service as the community safety delivery officer gave a special presentation about road safety. The event was part of the school’s Walk to School month celebrations, which took place across the region during October. Sponsored by housebuilder Ward Homes, the initiative also gave Year 2 pupils the chance to take part in a competition to design a road safety poster – and Caitlin Fairhurst was judged to be the winner. Ward Homes’ Sales Manager Harvey Sallows
(pictured left with Daniel Morley) presented Caitlin with a voucher prize at an award ceremony and all children in the class also received fluorescent snap bands and glow sticks to help keep them safe.
New Higher Education Scholarship Scheme announced
The Kent County Agricultural Society, Education and Farming Committee have announced a new Higher Education Scholarship Scheme. The financial assistance is open to all students who are resident in Kent at the time of their application – and successful candidates will be eligible for up to £1,000 per year and for up to three years of study. Stuart Gibbons, Chairman of the Education and Farming Committee, said: “The Society currently supports a number of educational initiatives for younger students. The Living Land event in May benefits children in primary education and there are a number of grants and awards available to young people involved in the rural sector at secondary school level. The society continues to deliver its charitable objectives as fully as possible and this new scholarship will support a number of students through higher education studies.” Candidates need to be aged between 18 and 25 when they start their study in the UK for a full-time college or university degree based course within the Land-based Sector. The society will choose three applications each year and students are able to use the funding towards tuition fees, accommodation, living expenses or equipment. Students can apply for a scholarship for each year of their degree course, or for the remaining years if they first apply part-way through a course and are living in Kent. Provided that the students’ academic performance is satisfactory the society will fund them for the duration of the course up to a maximum of three years. • Students can apply online at
http://kentshowground.co.uk/our- charitable-objectives/ for a September 2016 Scholarship. Applications need to be completed by 31st May 2016.
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“Our Blossom Bank development is just a short distance away so we were delighted to work in partnership with our local school to help make sure pupils have the opportunity to keep safe whilst walking to school,” said the firm’s Sales and Marketing Director Pam Reardon. “The aim is to help more children benefit from the extra fitness gained by walking to school. But we understand road safety is a concern for parents – which is why we invited Daniel Morley to talk to the school about things they can do to keep danger at bay.”
Turning your back on tradition
It has been suggested by an education expert that privileged pupils from the top schools in the country might be restricting their appeal to employers because they tend to copy their parents’ choice of university and education topics. By following in the footsteps of their ancestors, students miss out on some of the more innovative and perhaps useful courses that are appropriate for life in the 21st century. There are now
around 30,000 course options, yet pupils from independent schools tend to enrol in one of only 1,500 courses. New subjects such as software
engineering, digital and creative courses and biotechnology attract just 13% of pupils from the independent sector, while more than a quarter of state school pupils are drawn to these university and college courses.
City firms often
struggle to fill vacancies for their top jobs as they have noticed that applicants from the best schools tend to have ‘narrow’ backgrounds and seem ill-equipped for the workplace, so it seems students from private sector schools should perhaps be encouraged to ‘break away from the mould’ and think independently.
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