Education

Nursery schools in Lancashire receive the lowest level of government funding  anywhere in the country, a committee of councillors has heard.

The nursing care needed by some children in Lancashire’s special schools is “inequitable and unsustainable”, according to a committee of county councillors who have investigated the issue.

A Burnley school is celebrating after being chosen as only one of two in the country to pilot a project launched by the Ramblers Association.

More than 1,000 girls in Lancashire were not fully vaccinated against the potentially cancer-causing HPV virus last year, new figures show.

A village primary school has received an accolade that ranks it equivalent to the second best primary in Lancashire for sport.

A Burnley school, that has gone from strength to strength, is giving its students a unique learning experience.

Nelson and Colne College and Accrington and Rossendale College have merged to create a single college that they claim will offer the ‘highest quality education for all’.

Bright clothes were the correct answer at a local primary school's non-uniform day as it helped to raise plenty of cash for Children in Need.

How do we tackle the looming health time bomb? Lancashire’s public health boss tells Fiona Finch why cuts in public health funding must stop now and why the prevention of ill health is everyone’s business.

A team of talented students are welcoming in Christmas with festive performances of Walt Disney’s Mary Poppins Jr.

A whirlwind of young Burnley talent will storm the Mechanics stage next week.

More than a quarter of secondary schools in Lancashire are inadequate or require improvement, Ofsted figures show.

Students at Burnley College created 2,000 individual poppies for a poignant Remembrance Day memorial.

Shakespeare Schools Foundation is proud to present the world’s largest youth drama festival at Burnley Mechanics, starring local schools.