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Girls’ academy is latest to join King Edward group
The King Edward VI Academy Trust Birmingham has added another school to its group. Handsworth Wood Girls’
Academy – a non-selective school – has joined the seven King Edward VI academies at Aston, Camp Hill Boys, Camp Hill Girls, Five Ways, Handsworth School for Girls, Handsworth Grammar School for Boys and Sheldon Heath. Professor Hywel Thomas, chair of
the King Edward VI Academy Trust, said: “When we were formed last year, we said that our aim is to support more non-selective schools in the city.
‘Our school believes that an outstanding education is a balance between academic success and personal development’
“We are delighted that
Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy is now part of the trust. It reflects the multicultural nature of the city and it is a school where the staff and the girls work hard and give a great deal back to their local community.” Patrick Burns, chairman of the
King Edward VI Foundation, which also supports Edgbaston-based independent schools, King Edward’s School and King Edward VI High School for Girls, said: “We opened our first non-selective sponsored Academy at Sheldon Heath in 2011 and we are now delighted to be welcoming another non-selective school into our ‘family’. Our mission is to make
Birmingham the best place to be
educated in the country and we hope that the addition of Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy can play a part in achieving that ambitious goal.” Nicola Walters, headteacher at
Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy, said: “Our school believes that an outstanding education is a balance between academic success and
Businesses can’t wait for final Brexit deal
Businesses cannot wait for clarity over the terms of the UK's final deal with the EU before taking steps to prepare for Brexit, a legal expert has warned. Clare Francis of law firm
Pinsent Masons, which has an office in Birmingham, said the European parliament would not vote on whether to approve the final exit agreement until a session on 11-14 March 2019, just two weeks before the UK is due to pull-out of the EU. Ms Francis, a commercial law
Nicola Walters, headteacher at Handsworth Wood Girls’ Academy
Patrick Burns, chairman of King Edward IV Foundation
personal development. I am confident that by working together we can continue to offer our girls opportunities to ensure they leave our school confident in their abilities, along with a good sense of who they are.” The King Edward VI Academy
Trust builds on initiatives by the King Edward VI Foundation to work closely with other schools in the city. The King Edward’s Consortium,
which includes more than 20 schools, was rated the best school- based teacher training provider in the country. For the past five years, the Opening Doors programme has been providing outreach and support to primary schools across the city, with the aim of raising aspirations and providing opportunities for enrichment.
Blockchain expert in world first
A leading expert in cryptocurrency has been appointed as the world’s first Professor of Blockchain. Birmingham City University has
named Olinga Taeed (pictured) as Visiting Professor of Blockchain at the institution’s Faculty of Business, Law and Social Sciences. Blockchain is the technology that underpins digital currency, such as Bitcoin, allowing digital information to be distributed. "The Visiting Professorship in
Blockchain is the first of its kind in the world which frankly is remarkable given the rapidly burgeoning sector of distributed
ledger technologies, tokenisation and cryptocurrencies”, said Professor Taeed. “At Birmingham City University
we aim to establish a centre of excellence offering accredited courses in order to capture the market and provide real institutional level expertise to corporates and industries.” Professor Taeed is the author of
12 white papers on blockchain and is director of the not-for-profit Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance – the world’s leading think tank on the movement of non-financial and social value.
expert, said: "Businesses intent on waiting for clarity on the detail of the Brexit deal before taking steps to prepare for Brexit need to consider whether the negotiating timetable permits this strategy. “We are encouraging all
businesses that haven't already done so to draw up plans for a range of plausible Brexit outcomes immediately so that they can take steps to manage risk. Businesses that don't take these steps risk quickly being overtaken by events and losing their competitive advantage.” The European parliament and
council will need to approve the final deal between the European Commission and UK before it can take effect. And the EU has also indicated that the European parliament would not want to endorse the agreement until it had first been passed by the UK parliament. Ms Francis said this underlined how little time remained for the UK and EU to agree on the terms of the exit agreement, while leaving sufficient time to complete the necessary legal formalities. The UK government recently
published the first in a planned series of technical notices setting out the impact that a 'no deal' Brexit would have on businesses and consumers. Pinsent Masons' Brexit
expert Guy Lougher said that a no deal outcome would “be likely to have significant consequences and necessitate trading differently”, underling the need for businesses to carry out “structured scenario planning in order to understand the potential implications for them of a 'no deal' outcome”.
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