A growing trend over the last decade or more has seen many companies looking to remove at least one accounting procedure to save time and expense by outsourcing their payroll function. There are a number of advantages to doing this and many small companies and schools fall into the right size of organisation to make the most of doing so.   The essentials of any payroll system are to calculate the correct income tax and national insurance contributions to be deducted from the employee and also calculate the employer national insurance, produce … [Read more...]

 The expectations of teaching staff are increasingly complex. As they attempt to provide learners with the life skills they will need in a constantly evolving world, they themselves will need to constantly acquire new knowledge and techniques in order to provide the best learning experience and environment for their students. Pupils will come from diverse backgrounds with varying abilities and teachers need to assimilate new approaches to dealing with the parameters in front of them.   The education and professional development of every teacher … [Read more...]

The building pressure on the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has finally created a re-think in plans to institute the English Baccalaureate instead of GCSE’s. On February 7th. 2013, he issued a new statement of intent to reform the existing GCSE system that appears to have won a much larger amount of support than his original intention.   In true opposition style, Mr. Gove’s latest announcement was greeted as a “humiliating climbdown” by shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg, who appeared to concentrate more on petty point … [Read more...]

 The Essa Academy, in Bolton, Lancashire, has taken one of the biggest leaps of faith in recent educational history by issuing every one of its students and staff with their own Apple devices for use in school and at home. Over 2000 devices have been connected to a wi-fi network within the academy in an attempt to move away from printed texts and the associated costs of a traditional paper based administration. This radical step has involved both technical difficulties in terms of installation as well as a massive ideological shift for all to become … [Read more...]

  Leading on-site chair massage company, TravelChair Massage, continues to be a pioneer in alleviating stress-related health concerns in the workplace by providing on-site, ongoing office chair massage services to the corporate world. Corporate health fairs, employee and teacher appreciation days, tradeshows, and ongoing wellness programs are just some of the venues where TravelChair Massage provides its services.   A decade later the company’s passion and goals remain the same: customer satisfaction is top priority. … [Read more...]

In the Arts Council publication, Drama in Schools, in 2003, some of the benefits of drama were outlined: "Through engagement in drama, pupils apply their imaginations and draw upon their own personal experiences. Their increasing knowledge and understanding of how the elements of drama work enables them to effectively shape, express and share their ideas, feelings and responses, making use of language, space, symbol, allegory and metaphor. Good drama teaching will result in pupils learning about dramatic form and the content it explores.”   Lynn … [Read more...]

The Scout and Guiding movements are two of the most well known organisations around the world and have gone from strength to strength since their inception in the early years of the 20th century. Their goal is to offer a "...a voluntary nonpolitical educational movement for young people open to all without distinction of origin, race or creed, in accordance with the purpose, principles and method conceived by the Founder..." It is the goal of Scouting "to contribute to the development of young people in achieving their full physical, intellectual, … [Read more...]