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The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium published odt2braille, a Braille extension to OpenOffice, a open source suite of office productivity tools, earlier this month.

Education Minister, Caitríona Ruane, has approved the establishment of an additional nursery unit at Drumnamoe Nursery School, Lurgan.

Children in residential care are some of the most vulnerable groups in Scottish society with complex and challenging needs, and the Scottish Government along with councils and other public sector bodies need to do more to support them, according to Getting it right for children in residential care, a report from Audit Scotland.

The play based Foundation Curriculum is now being rolled out for all five and six year olds in Wales from this school year.

Only 32 schools, out of more than 2000 that expressed interest would re-open as academies in time for the begining of the new school year. 110 schools are expected to join the initial group later on in the year.

The Education and Training Inspectorate has updated a valuable resource, ‘Together Towards Improvement’, to support schools in the process of self-evaluation and so help raise standards.

A DVD designed to help Gaelic early years staff make the most of Curriculum for Excellence has been launched.

The merger of three Glasgow colleges has been approved by Ministers with the strong expectation that there will be 'no compulsory redundancies' and that proper engagement with trade unions will be undertaken.

58,700 pupils are failing to reach Level 2 - the standard expected of the age group - in math, while 104,700 pupils are failing to do the same in writing. One in six seven year olds or 84,000 pupils are failing to reach the adequate standards in reading, according to new figures released by the Department of Education.

Further Education and Skills Minister John Hayes is in Sunderland today to help celebrate the production launch of the Nissan Juke.