It’s well understood that establishing a strong home-school partnership which empowers parents to be involved in their child’s education is a key part to improving learning outcomes. But this relationship is not always to easy to achieve.Firefly gives teachers more time to teach, enables students to learn in ways that work best for them, and involves parents with their child’s learning every step of the way.In this live discussion, we will for the first time reveal the results of a survey conducted with schools asking them about their current level and challenges when it comes to parental engagements. Talking points include views on new approaches to engaging parents, and keeping the school in control of the conversation. Alana Varndell, former Head of e-Learning at Kensington Prep School, will be just one of the speakers providing insight into how they achieved 100% tech adoption amongst teachers and students, and got parents engaged too, to the benefit of the whole school community.

Enabling Microsoft Teams with telephony is becoming an obvious choice for universities who are considering or have already invested in Office365. Demand for modern collaboration tools across the education sector is growing rapidly, as organisations want to provide their staff and students with the best communication experience anywhere, anytime. Our thought-leadership session will help you understand the options available to your organisation, how to overcome the challenges of enabling remote working with existing technology, how you can easily access expert advice to support you through your digital journey and you’ll be introduced a flexible, cost-efficient Unified Communications solution tailored to your needs.

In this exclusive interview, Independent Education Today editor Jo Golding speaks to Sue Hincks, headmistress of Bolton School’s girls’ division and president of the Girls’ Schools Association. Sue shares her thoughts on the current educational landscape and leadership, discusses her own educational journey and offers her advice to other teachers across the independent sector.

Higher Education sees an increase in students turning to sex work, Save The Student recorded the number of students has doubled since 2017, YHA reckon they can help get our kids outdoors more by designing a school trips programme for children to spend a night under the stars and the first AI University is announced to open in Abu Dhabi with it's entering students being awarded a full scholarship.

Bill Rammell, the out-going VC of University of Bedfordshire, a former member of parliament for Harlow and one-time minister of state for higher education, gives his views on the sector on higher education and student top-up fees.

University Business reporter James Higgins interviews Jo Brady, general secretary of the universities and college union, to discuss racial inequalities and pay pensions.

In the latest episode of The Education Station: Charley Rogers, editor of Education Technology is joined by Vivi Friedgut the founder and CEO of edtech start up Blackbullion, which delivers financial education to students. You may have heard of Blackbullion in the news recently, as they won the UK semi-finals of the prestigious GESAwards, which means they'll be representing the country at the global finals in January. However, you might not know about Vivi's ideal edtech interviewee, and her somewhat controversial views on the cost of education. Tune in to hear what she had to say.

In the latest episode of The Education Station: independent schools respond to Labour’s plans to dissolve the sector, what responsibilities do lecturers have during university strikes and the ten-year-old who won a competition to redesign her clarinet for space. All this and more in episode two of The Education Station, hosted by leading education titles University Business, Education Technology and Independent Education Today.

Leading education titles Independent Education Today, Education Technology and University Business discuss the biggest education stories from the last fortnight. We ask: what’s the fallout from A-level results day? Do we need social media studies? Should universities ‘go green’ at any cost? And is it time for a revolution in university admissions? All this and more in episode one of The Education Station.

We discuss the 5 Key Challenges facing Higher Education institutes in 2019, from Brexit to student recruitment.