Education

MP Toby Perkins is supporting Chesterfield College’s campaign to change a funding cap which could lead to a shortage of apprenticeships in the town and North East Derbyshire.

A Chesterfield special school has been told it must improve by Ofsted inspectors.

Staff from Middleton’s Mount Cook Adventure Centre have helped raise thousands of pounds for a gender equality charity after an epic trip up a Kenyan mountain.

Famous faces and hardened hikers gathered in Castleton on Saturday, braving Storm Hannah to celebrate the Kinder Scout trespass.

A trainee nurse from Birchover has won a national student award for service to the profession and her work on sudden infant death syndrome.

A headteacher at a Chesterfield primary school says staff are ‘highly committed’ to raising standards after inspectors found it ‘requires improvement’.

“The quality of teaching is excellent.” That is what the education watchdog Ofsted found after it inspected ‘Woodhoots’ Childcare at Langwith Junction.

A provider of children’s learning classes aiming to get youngsters ready for school in Derbyshire have scooped a prestigious Hoop award.

A ground-breaking Derbyshire project appointing school children to champion online safety has been celebrated at a special event.

A much-loved headteacher - who has never had a day off work sick - is set to retire after a career spanning nearly four decades.